POLITENESS STRATEGIES OF REFUSAL IN THE MOVIE ENTITLED RISE OF THE GUARDIANS (A Pragmatics Approach)

ABSTRACT Annisa Ayu Fajarini. C0310008. Politeness Strategies of Refusals In The Movie Entitled Rise of The Guardians (A Pragmatics Approach). Thesis: English Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Sebelas Maret University. The research is conducted to analyze the politeness strategies used by the characters in the movie Rise of the Guardians in delivering refusal expression. It is also conducted to identify the factors which influence the characters in delivering refusal expression using politeness strategies in the movie entitled Rise of the Guardians. The research uses Pragmatics as an approach which concern on the refusal expression as the data. This research employs descriptive qualitative reserach. This research applies purposive sampling technique in order to take all data of the dialogue containing refusal expression uttered by the characters in the movie. There are twenty-seven dialogues chosen as the data and classified into four strategies from Brown and Levinson’s politeness theory (1987). There are two findings in this research. First, there are two types of refusal expression employs by the characters in the movie, namely direct and indirect refusal. The characters also use for types of politeness strategy, they are Bald On-Record, Positive Politeness, Negative Politeness and Off-Record Strategy. The characters in the movie mostly used direct refusal and its followed by positive politeness when uttering refusal expression. The last finding shows that there are some factors that influence the characters in delivering refusal and politeness strategy. Those social factor are social distance scale, status scale and formality scale. Keywords: refusal expression, speech acts, politeness strateg