AN ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY HARRY POTTER IN J.K. ROWLING’S NOVEL “HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE”

IRMA RATNA NINGSIH, (2012) AN ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY HARRY POTTER IN J.K. ROWLING’S NOVEL “HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE”. Bachelor thesis, IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon.

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IRMA RATNA NINGSIH: AN ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY HARRY POTTER IN J.K. ROWLING’S NOVEL “HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER’S STONE” Politeness is a strategy of people in being polite to build a harmony in term of communication. Politeness is one of the communication strategies that emphasize on how to be polite in words and actions. People usually use politeness in order to maintain and develop their relationship. If the individual can use politeness, automatically the individual can reach a running well and going smoothly of life. The aims of this research are to know what politeness strategies that used by Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer‟s Stone novel by J.K. Rowling, to know to whom Harry Potter uses the politeness strategies and to know how Harry Potter uses the politeness strategies in his utterances. The method of this research is discourse analysis. It used because it is concerning with describing instances of language use in context. From the data can be explored in a systematic way, the relation between language use from text and the context of occurrence of politeness strategies that used by Harry Potter. The data of this research taken from a novel entitled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer‟s Stone by J.K. Rowling. The main theory to analyze the data taken from the book entitled Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage by Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson (1987). As results of this research, the writer found 90 data which contain politeness strategies and about 16 data has been analyzed by the writer. All the data belong to the four politeness strategies as being proposed by Brown and Levinson, namely bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness and off record. Bald on record strategy is used by Harry in the situation of urgency. In positive politeness, Harry uses it to people around him in order to satisfying their positive face. Negative politeness also used by Harry as he wants to satisfy the hearer‟s negative face. While off record strategy used by Harry because he wants to be indirect and gives the hearer clues. Harry used those strategies to his friends, teachers and character around him. Finally, the researcher expects this research will be able to help the next researcher who conducts the research in the same field. It is suggested to further researchers to be able to investigate other objects which might contain politeness strategy and use another theory of politeness strategy.

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Item Type: Thesis (Bachelor)
Subjects: Pendidikan > Pendidikan (Umum)
Depositing User: tuti alawiyah alawiyah
Date Deposited: 22 Mar 2017 01:01
Last Modified: 06 Jun 2017 05:49
URI: http://repository.syekhnurjati.ac.id/id/eprint/1196

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