POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY CHARACTERS IN RIKO THE SERIES

Abstract

Politeness played an important role in human life. Politeness is an important subject matter in a communication. Politeness is behaving in a way that attempts to take into account the feelings of the people being addressed. The purposes of this study are to find out the types of politeness strategies used by characters in Riko the Series, to expose how the types of politeness strategies used by characters in Riko the Series, and to describe the reasons why the types of politeness strategies are used by characters in Riko the Series. This research applied a qualitative method. To analyze the politeness strategies in the Riko the series movies, the researcher applied a theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (2007). The sources of the data were taken from 2 series of the Riko the Series. The titles of the series are “Adab Sebelum Ilmu” and “Ayo Konsentrasi”. The results of the study obtained that there are 31 positive politeness strategies or 59.61%, 15 off record politeness strategies or 28.85% and 6 bald on record politeness strategies or 11.53% used in the Riko the Series in 2 movies. In other words, positive politeness is the most common politeness strategy used in the animation movie of Riko the series, The characters of the Riko the Series used the positive politeness strategies in three ways, they are: claim common ground, convey that S (speaker) and H (herarer) are operators and fulfill the hearer’s want for some X (the message). The reason why the characters in Riko the Series used the politeness strategies is that each members of the family or the characters in the Riko the Series tried to minimize the distance between them by expressing friendliness and solid interest in the hearer's need to be respected each others.