Abstract:
This research deals with the types of directive utterance related to politeness
strategy in Sherlock Holmes The Abominable Bride movie script. The objectives
of this research were to find out the type of directive utterances and to explain how
directive utterance related to politeness strategy. Descriptive qualitative method
was used in this research. Source of data was obtained by downloading movie
script. In collecting the data, the researcher downloading the script, watching
movie, reading the script, and underlining the directive utterance related to
politeness strategy that found in Sherlock Holmes The Abominable bride movie
script. The data were analysed by some steps such as, data reduction, data display,
drawing and verifying conclusion. The finding showed three types of directive
uuterance they are command, request, suggest. They were 10 of request, 35 of
command and 5 of suggest. The finding of directive utterances related to politeness
strategy were bald on record strategy as the most dominant
