POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN AMERICAN TELEVISION SERIES HANNAH MONTANA

AWLIYA, RAHMI (2012) POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN AMERICAN TELEVISION SERIES HANNAH MONTANA. Diploma thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

The politeness strategies used by the speaker vary in some ways. The example above is taken from Hannah Montana: Season 1. The dialogue is conducted among Robby, the father and his son, Jackson. In this occasion, Jackson actually hopes his father to loan him money for dating. Jackson uses certain strategy of politeness to share his idea to his father. It is seen that Jackson says some pre-utterances before he goes to the point that he wants to loan some money from his father. The way Jackson utters his request to his father is considered as a strategy. The strategy used by Jackson may be caused by some factors such as close relativity and the feeling of worry that his request will be refused by his father. Jackson, as the speaker, uses different strategy when he speaks to another hearer in different condition. The example below shows another strategy used by Jackson when he speaks to Miley, his little sister: (2) Jackson: I need two incredible tickets for tomorrow night. Miley : Sorry, I’m sold out. Those two examples above can be regarded as the reflection that a speaker uses different strategy in speaking to different hearer. The different strategy used by the speaker may be affected by some contextual factors. Thus, what the politeness strategies used among the characters in Hannah Montana are and the contextual factors influence them in choosing those strategies are very interesting to analyze. The writer is interested in studying politeness strategies in American television series Hannah Montana: Lilly, do you want to know a secret?. Hannah Montana is a famous teenager American serial television which firstly published in 2005. The characters in this television series are dominated by teenagers. This is possible to influence the characters to use various politeness strategies in communicating.

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