The Realization Of Politeness Strategies Of Code-Mixing In Deddy Corbuzier’s Youtube Channel

Abstract

This study aims to examine the kind of politeness strategies used by Deddy Corbuzier in his podcasts with Cinta Laura and Millen Cyrus, the realization of each politeness strategies and the reasons of using the politeness strategies. This study belongs to a descriptive qualitative research. The data were gained by transcribing the whole utterances realized during the podcasts. Then, the data were eliminated and sorted. Only Deddy’s mixed English-Indonesian utterances were analyzed, encoded, described, and displayed in the discussion. There are three politeness strategies used by Deddy Corbuzier. They are bald on record strategy, positive strategy and negative strategy. However, Deddy Corbuzier has a tendency to use positive politeness strategy in interviewing his guests. The positive strategies realized in the podcasts werefocusing attention on the opposite person, give more attention, give recognition or sympathy to opponents said, find an agreement, add or agree with the opinions of the interlocutors, being optimistic, giving or asking for a specific reason, offer assistance or promise, joke, asking questions or avoiding, being pessimistic, apologize, and state clearly that the actions of the interlocutor are very valuable to the speaker. The reasons of using each strategies are considering the responses he expected from the guests, the intimacy factor and the weighing the risks of each strategy.