Politeness of Directive Utterances in Sherlock Holmes The Abominable Bride movie script

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