Abstract:
This research is Pragmatics approach study of Politeness Principle in The
Great Debaters Movie. The objectives of this research are (1) To find out the types
of politeness principle performed by the main character in The Great Debaters.
(2) To find out how did politeness principle realize in characters. methodology of
this study is Descriptive Qualitative Research; it means that it does not need
statistic approach to explore the material. In this research, the researcher research
about politeness principle in the Great Debaters movie. Qualitative research is a
search of which the data written or oral words are descriptive analyzed. the movie
great debaters for several times in order to understand the whole story (2)colleting
the data, transcribing the data from the dialogue in the movie into the form of
dialogue list, identify the listed dialogue that contain the politeness maxims
carried out by the participant. Finding out tact, approbation, agreement, modesty
and sympathy maxims carried out by each participant (3) reducing the data which
has been selected based on kinds of politeness maxims in the theory, it involves
the process of selecting and focusing the raw data into refined data.The researcher
uses content analysis which focus on analyzing kinds of politeness maxims in The
Great Debaters movie with Leech‟ Theory. The result of the analysis, the
researcher found the answer of the research problems. The result of the research
showed that there were six kinds of politeness maxim in The Great Debaters
movie. Those were; agreement, generosity, approbation, modesty, sympathy and
tact. The dominant of politeness maxims is agreement and approbation maxim,
The politeness principle is realized by playing characters who act as the best
debate movie, who have a very broad and organized level of language, with
language that is always polite.
