Politeness Strategies in Mata Najwa Talk Show
Ilham Dodi Trisna
Universitas Negeri Medan, Fakultas Linguistik Terapan Bahasa Inggris (LTBI)
Abstract
The paper discusses the politeness strategies conducted in Mata Najwa TV Talk Show. The objectives of this study were to find out the types of politeness strategies used by Anies Baswedan as the interviewee in Mata Najwa talk show program, and to investigate the reasons of the types of politeness strategies were used. The result of the research shown that all types of politeness strategies used in Mata Najwa talk show program. Based on the analysis, there are 37 utterances containing politeness strategies used by Anies Baswedan. In detail, he uses the strategy of bald on record 7 times or 18.9%, positive politeness 20 times or 54%, negative politeness 9 times or 24.4%, and off record once or 2.7%. The most frequent politeness strategy used by Anies Baswedan is offer and promise which belong to positive politeness strategy. In general, he uses politeness strategies to maintain and build good relationship and to avoid a deep evaluation because of the show broadcasted on television station.
Keywords: politeness strategies, bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, off record, face threatening act (FTA), mata najwa, talk show.
Topic: Social,Language and Cultural Education