Politeness Principle in The Great Debaters” Movie

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.