An Analysis on the Politeness in the Mystery of the Blue Train Novel by Agatha Christie

In the communication we need politeness, because with politeness we can show our feeling toward other. Politeness is prototypically exhibited in conversation and other kinds of face-to-face interchange, and so other approaches to discourse analysis, using different kinds of text (predominantly narrative) have contributed less to our theme. There are four main types of politeness, bald on record strategy, positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy, and indirect strategy. Two of them are positive politeness and negative politeness. The Mystery of the Blue Train novel is one of novel written by Agatha Christie. This novel used daily conversation so there are many politenesses found here. From the reason above, the writer is interested to analyze the positive politeness and negative politeness strategies found in The Mystery of the Blue Train novel by Agatha Christie. The purposes of the research is (i) to find out the positive politeness strategies on The Mystery of the Blue Train novel by Agatha Christie (ii) to find out negative politeness strategies on The Mystery of the Blue Train novel by Agatha Christie. This research is qualitative descriptive research. The data of this research is the utterances found in the Mystery of the Blue Train novel by Agatha Christie. The data source in this study is The Mystery of the Blue Train novel. The result of this research shows that (i) there are 78 utterances of positive politeness found in The Mystery of the Blue Train Novel by Agatha Christie. Positive politeness found in this novel is 8 strategies. They are exaggerate (interest, approval, sympathy with H), use in group identity makers, seek agreement (repetition), Assert of presuppose S’s knowledge of and concern for H’s wants, offer/promise, be optimistic, include both S and H in the activity, give (or ask for) reason (ii) there are 39 utterances of negative politeness found in The Mystery of the Blue Train Novel by Agatha Christie. Negative politeness found in this Novel are 4 strategies The Mystery of the Blue Train Novel by Agatha Christie They are be conventionally indirect, Question hedge, be pessimistic and apology. Considering the process and the results of this research, the writer suggests that (i) the teachers can vary their teaching learning process by teaching some expressions. The teacher can use the example not only from the text book but also from art work or from the daily conversation (ii) the students can enlarge their knowledge by studying some expressions especially politeness expression. By studying the politeness expression, the students can differentiate the expression which one is polite and which one is impolite (iii) the readers can add their knowledge by reading novel contain many expression especially politeness expression. The readers can learn how to talk well by using correct politeness