The Politeness Strategies Used in the Movie the Chronicles of Narnia

This research is a pragmatic study on politeness strategies employed by the characters   in   The   chronicles   of   Narnia movie  in  the  context  of  family  discourse. This research using Brown and Levinson theory  about  the  types  of  politeness strategies. The objectives of this research are (1) To identify   the types of politeness strategies in the chronicles of Narnia movie (2). To analyze the way politeness strategies utterancesthe chronicles of Narnia movie. (3).To describe the function of the politeness strategies used in the chronicles of  Narnia movie.This research used descriptive qualitative approach. The data were in the form of utterances  which  contain  politeness strategies. The data source was The Chronicles of Narnia movie script. The data were collected by note-taking technique then they were classified and analyzed. The trustworthiness was attained by using credibility  through  two  kinds  of triangulation: by observers and theories