An Analysis Of Politeness Strategies In Post Match Press Conference Used By Premier League Managers

Politeness strategies is a method used by someone to convey the meaning of his/her utterance more smoothly. Politeness strategies can be observed in every utterance or conversation between humans including post match press conference. The different with regular press conference is this research more focused on post match press conference or after match from football team in premier league and the object are five managers from different clubs in premier league. This research was conducted in order to find out politeness strategies used by premier league manager in post match press conference. The first objective of this resesarch is finding out the type of politeness strategies used by premier league and the second objective is finding out the dominant type used by premier eague manager in post match press confrence. Those two objectives are analyzed by using Brown and Levinson’s theory of politeness strategy. The method in this research is descriptive qualitative research. The data of this research are collected from official youtube channel of Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester City and Sky Sports Football. The data collection of this research are observing and documenting. The researcher watch five videos of managers post match press conference, and find the script from the video. The results of data showed that there were 44 Politeness Strategies were used by premier league managers, and also all of five managers are used four main politeness strategies, which were Bald on record, Positive Politeness, Negative Politeness and Off record. Positive politeness was the most dominant strategies are used by premier league managers and also there were two sub-strategy that often used in positive politeness, Be Optimistic (Strategy 11) and Assert or Presuppose speaker’s knowledge of and concern for hearer wants’s