THE ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGY IN REQUESTS USED BY THE CHARACTERS IN A FILM ENTITLED SYDNEY WHITE AND ITS APPLICATION IN TEACHING SPEAKING

Abstract

This research deals with politeness strategy in requests used by   the characters in the film entitled Sydney White and its application in teaching speaking at Junior High School.The aims  of  this  research  are  (1)  to  analyse  the  types  of  request  expressions  as  politeness strategies found in Sydney White film; (2) to describe the application of request expressions as  politeness  strategies  used  by  the  characters  in  teaching  speaking  at  Junior  High School.This research used descriptive qualitative method. The data are in the form of utterances containing request expressions as politeness strategies found in Sydney White film based on  the theory of Brown and Levinson (1987)about politeness strategies and the theory of Tsui (2017) about requests. The result of this analysis shows there are five types of request expressions found in Sydney Whitefilm. Those are request for action 7 data (43.75%), request for permission5 data (31.25%), offer 2 data (12.5%), and invitation and proposal 1 data (6.25%). There are three politeness strategies used by the characters to express their requests, those are bald on record 4 data, positive politeness 9 data and negativie politeness 3 data from

16 expressions. This research can be applied in teaching speaking at Junior High School and may become the reference for other study.

Keywords: Politeness strategy, request, film, teaching speaking.