Impoliteness strategies in pitch perfect and pitch perfect 2 movies

This research is on Pragmatic scope that focuses on impoliteness strategies. The unit of analysis is Pitch Perfect movies transcript. It is a qualitative research. It is intended to identify the types of impoliteness strategies chosen by characters, how the characters respond the FTAs, and the features of offending event that trigger the characters to do impoliteness. This research used Impoliteness strategies theory by Jonathan Culpeper as the main theory, Impoliteness strategies by Derek Bousfield, and Offending Event by Timothy Jay as the supporting theories. As the result, it was found that all five strategies were chosen by the characters. The strategies from the most chosen to the less chosen were as follow positive impoliteness strategy, negative impoliteness strategy, bald on record impoliteness strategy, sarcasm or mock politeness strategy, and withhold politeness strategy. The characters frequently harmed the addressees‟ face by insulting name calling and using obscure language sub-strategies. The delivered FTAs made the addressees dominantly evaluated them with responses. The addressee responded the FTAs by choosing offensive countering. The characters mostly countered the offender by asking a challenge question which is in negative impoliteness strategy. The behaviour feature of offending event was the feature that mostly often provoked the characters to do impoliteness. Followed by the status feature, this feature showed an opposition of the impoliteness notion, in which the characters with less power 1) attacked the more powerful addressees, and 2) countered the more powerful interlocutors with more cruel responses. The following features that influenced characters to do impoliteness were the physical appearance, social-physical setting, intentionality, language, sex, and age features