Face Threatening Act in The Talk Show Live from “The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2018”
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- This term discusses about the face threatening act in the the talk show live from “The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2018” with John Gruber, Mike Rockwell and Greg Jozwiak using politeness strategy and social distance from Brown and Levinson, and Peter Grundy. More specifically, the study analyses of the social distance in face threatening act. Two theories are used in the research. First, theory by Brown and Levinson consists of face threatening act and politeness strategy. Second, theory by Peter Grundy consists of power, social distance and imposition. Furthermore, this study qualitive range of research; type of linguistic research that analyses using method of data collection in the form of the interview script as the primary source and supported by the talk show video that is related to the research. The utterances in this script can be analyzed in politeness theory. The main reason people study about face threatening act is to understanding what people means when they make or avoid the face threatening act based on their social distance and power.