An Analysis of Face Threatening Act Used by the Main Character on “Deepwater Horizon” Movie
Daftar Isi:
- People need to communicate in conveying meaning and feeling to each other. In conveying message, people sometimes perform acts which are able to threat interlocutors. Politeness theory, in particular face threatening acts is used by the researcher in analyzing “Deepwater Horizon” movie, because the researcher wants to present the the difference of face threatening acts usage between two opposite relation ; friend and adversary. There are two problems to be solved, they are: (1) What face threatening act are performed by the main character in “Deepwater Horizon” movie and (2) What is dominant types face threatening act are performed by the main character in “Deepwater Horizon” movie. This study uses qualitative approach and it is included in document analysis because the researcher’s data is movie script. In analyzing the data, the researcher only chooses utterances containing Face Threatening Act types. Then, the researcher makes conclusion/verification based on Brown and lavinson’s theory. The result of this study suggests that there are 40 utterances containing FTAs. Out of the utterances, for positive face 7 of them are realized in Insult, 2 of them are realized in Dissapproval, 3 of them are realized in Critism and 8 of them are realized in Contradiction, and for negative face 5 of them are realized in Order, 1 of them is realized in Threat, 2 of them are realized in Warning and 10 of them are realized in Suggestion. The act which most dominant used is suggestion. For future research, the researcher suggests to the next researcher to apply strategies of minimizing face threatening act in studying politeness from different language beside English.