Politeness Strategy Applied By The Characters In Greta Movie (2018)

Language has an important role in daily life. To have a good interaction we not only focus on how to behave with others but also how to be polite when people are getting interaction in society. This study is about politeness strategies used by the characters in Greta Movie (2018). The problem of this study: 1. What types of politeness strategies are there in the Greta movie. 2. How does the Politeness strategies described by the characters in the Greta movie.The results of the study show that the researcher found four types of politeness strategy in fifty-six data which are; first, Bald on record strategy (22 data). Second, positive politeness strategy (22 data). Third, negative politeness strategy (8 data) and the last, off-record strategy (4 data). Bald on Record and positive politeness strategy mostly used in this analysis because the characters already have a close relationship and they used that utterance to minimize the hearer's face and make them show the embarrassed and threatening face.viii, 61 hlm.: ill.; 25 c