Positive Politeness Strategies as Used by Judges in American’s Got Talent Competition Show

Parluhutan, Parluhutan (2020) Positive Politeness Strategies as Used by Judges in American’s Got Talent Competition Show. Diploma thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

This research analyses the positive politeness strategies used by Judges in American’s Got Talent competition show in commenting and judging the participant’s performance. This research was done by observation and analyzing the judges utterance which contain positive politeness strategies. The analysis focus on the judges’ utterance which used positive politeness strategies to save participants face. This research uses the theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987); The Fifteen Positive Politeness Strategies. The theory is supported by other theories that are considered relevant to the topic in this research. Based on the analysis, the writer found that there are 26 utterances containing positive politeness strategy with 10 positive politeness strategies that the judge use to minimized FTA and safe participant’s face, they are: Strategy 1 (Notice, attend to H), Strategy 2 (Exaggerate; interest, approval, sympathy with H), Strategy 3 (Intensify interest to H), Strategy 4 (Use in group identity markers), Strategy 5 (Seek agreement), Strategy 6 (Avoid disagreement), Strategy 9 (Assert or presuppose S’s Knowledge and concerns for H’s wants), Strategy 11 (Be optimistic), Strategy 12 (Include both S and H in the activity), and Strategy 15 (Give gifts to H). Besides, to comment participant’s weaknesses in American’s Got Talent, the judges use Avoid disagreement strategy; white lies. Keywords: Politeness, Positive Politeness Strategy, American’s Got Talent

Item Type: Thesis (Diploma)
Primary Supervisor: Al Maghvirah Chan, S.S., M.Hum
Subjects: P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Divisions: Fakultas Ilmu Budaya > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: s1 sastra inggris
Date Deposited: 18 Feb 2021 04:40
Last Modified: 18 Feb 2021 04:40
URI: http://scholar.unand.ac.id/id/eprint/72277

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