The implication of politeness strategies of request in Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix

This research focuses on the discussion about request. Request itself is one of face-threatening acts. Therefore, the speakers have to assess the social factors to minimize the threat. There are two problems of the research. First, what strategies are used by the character of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie. Second, how to know strategies are used to make politeness employed by the characters in the movie. To answer the first questions, the writer uses the theory of request strategies proposed by Trosborg that according to him, there are four categories and eight strategies. They are indirect request: Hints, conventionally indirect request (hearer-oriented condition): Ability/willingness/permission and Suggestory Formulae, Conventionally Indirect request (speaker based-condition): Wishes and Needs, and Direct request: Obligation, Performatives and Imperatives. Whereas, to answer the second question, the writer uses the theory of Brown and Levinson that according to them, there are four strategies of politeness namely bald-on record, positive politeness, negative politeness and off-record. In this study, the writer uses qualitative approach supported by quantitative data. The data is taken from the movie entitled Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix