Abstract:
This research aimed to describe the types of politeness strategies and how
politeness strategies are realized by Joe Biden’s speech act when delivering the
content of his speech. This research used descriptive qualitative.The data and
source of the data was done collect from https://youtu.be/J5j7OR_IdfM. The data
of the research of qualitative method consisted of data collection, data reduction,
data display, and conclusion drawing. 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 data of
politeness strategies utterances that have been analyzed are 24 utterances which
are politeness strategies used in Joe Biden’s speech. The politeness strategies
contained in Joe Biden’s speech consist of 4 Bald on Record utterances, 10
Positive Politeness utterances, 8 Negative Politeness utterances, and 2 Off Record
utterances
