This thesis is the study of pragmatics on the use of politeness strategy in movie entitled ‘Her’. It is a qualitative research. The theory used in this thesis is Brown and Levinson’s Negative Politeness Strategy, and supported by Ronald Wardaugh Politeness and Solidarity theory. The writer also analyzes the relation between distance and the choice of strategy and how the strategy works in the conversation. By applying the theories, the writer knows that the characters use the politeness strategy as we know that politeness strategy have several sub-strategies that have a different purpose. Those sub-strategies are bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, off record, and don’t do FTA. They uses those strategies relates to the context of the conversation and the situation. Furthermore, Wardaugh theory about solidarity and politeness are not necessarily main reflection about how the character behavior to each other. Their relation is close but they still polite although the tension of the situation heat up. In conclusion, politeness strategy use to maintain the hearer face in order to communication going well, and the sociological variable such as power, distance, and ranking of imposition is not the main factor that someone uttered polite or impolite, it is based on the situation

SI15085

SKR BSI 15085

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