Add to ORKGThis research aims to discover the impoliteness strategies of the charactersand their functions in Sherlock: The Hound of Baskerville through their actions.Using the qualitative method, the research's data have been collected by watching,understanding, taking notes, and identifying prior. The research is further concernedwith the kind of impoliteness that occurred and how the strategies activelyfunctioned in the film. Relied upon Jonathan Culpeper's theory of impolitenessstrategies, 54 data were obtained; 8 bald-on-record impoliteness, 14 positiveimpoliteness, 24 negative impoliteness, and 8 off-record impoliteness. The researchalso reveals the function of impoliteness based on the obtained data; however, eachfunction does not bound to a sp...