Abstract:
This research aims to describe the types of politeness strategies, dominant
politeness strategies and the reasons of used politeness strategies in Jimmy
Kimmel Live Show. This research uses descriptive qualitative because it seeks to
understand a certain phenomenon, namely the politeness strategies used in Jimmy
Kimmel Live Show. The data and source of the data was done collect from
www.youtube.com. The data were analyzed using interactive model theory by
Miles and Hubberman. The approach for analyzing the politeness strategies is
based on Brown and Levinson’s Theory of Politeness. There are four politeness
strategies that are mentioned by Brown and Levinson, they are Bald on
Record, Positive Politeness, Negative Politeness and Off Record. The most
dominant politeness strategy used was Positive Politeness with 37.30%. Another
dominant politeness strategy used was Bald on Record (28.90%), Off Record
(25.58%) and Negative Politeness (9.30 %). It can be concluded that positive
politeness strategy is the most dominant strategy used in Jimmy Kimmel Live
Show.
