FACE THREATENING ACT IN BLACK PANTHER MOVIE SCRIPT

ABSTRACTUnnada, Ilvia Dhiya. NIM.17203153118. 2019. Face Threatening Act in “Black Panther” Movie Script. Thesis. English Education Department. Faculty Of Tarbiyah and Teaching Training. State Islamic Institute (IAIN) Of Tulungagung. Advisor: Faizatul Istiqomah, M.Ed.Keyword: Pragmatics, Politeness, Face threatening Act, Politeness StrategyMost of us are aware of acceptable social manners and value politeness and courtesy. Grundy (2000) stated that politeness phenomena are one manifestation of the wider concept of etiquette, or appropriate behavior. Being polite means being aware of and respecting the feelings of other people. We may not always notice politeness but we usually notice rudeness or inconsiderate behavior. We are being polite by providing some of the most common behaviors that are considered polite to build and maintain relationships with others. Beside politeness can and will improve your relationships with others, it will help to build respect and rapport, boost your self-esteem and confidence, and improve your communication skills. However, politeness is often misinterpreted as only referring to the courteous and refined expressions by lay audience. This case is called as politeness in pragmatics. Pragmatics is a study about way in explaining language in context. Yule (1996:3), states that “Pragmatics is concerned with the study of meaning as communicated by a speaker (or writer) interpreted by a listener (or reader)”. In this respect, pragmatics explains how language users are able to overcome apparent ambiguity, since meaning relies on the manner, place, time, etc. of an utterance. Brown and Levinson (1978) define politeness as maintaining the hearer’s face, which is, letting hearer feels unimposed on and improved in a certain respect. Each utterance in communication can convey the meaning in an attempt to create understanding among main speaker and hearer. Politeness is best expressed as the practical application of good manners or etiquette. According to Brown and Levinson, politeness strategies are developed in order to save the hearers’ “face”. Face refers to the respect that an individual has for him or herself, and maintaining that “self-esteem” in public or in private situations. In politeness theory, if a speaker says something that is a threat to others’ expectations of their public self-image, then that action is called by Face Threatening Act (FTA). Face threatening (FTA) is an act which challenges the face wants of an interlocutor. According Brown and Levinson (1987:65-68) states that the concept of face is universal. Basically, there is a variety of utterance that is potentially to threaten called face threatening acts (FTA). A movie is a form of symbolic expression of human being. It can be the most suitable media for understanding human’s conversation since it resembles the real world of human. It is inspired by human, made by human, and played by human. In its best value, a movie or a film has the ability to record people and the events around them (Graham, 2005: 117). And it will be changed into movie script so that it will be easier to find out the Face Threatening Acts and Politeness Strategies performed in the Black Panther movie. Black Panther is a 2018 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. Many critics considered it to be one of the best films set in the MCU and noted its cultural significance, with organizations including the National Board of Review and American Film Institute naming it one of the Top 10 Films of 2018. This study would give contributions to the development of pragmatics discipline. The finding would be able to be used as the material in teaching Pragmatics, especially politeness strategies and FTA (Face Threatening Act). The finding can also be used by students as the example of politeness strategies role in communication and give the information to the readers especially for the English students of State Islamic Institute (IAIN) of Tulungagung when they are interested in doing similar research in future. In addition, the researcher hopes that the finding of this study would also be useful for further researchers. The result of this study can be used as a reference in conducting research related to topic in the same field.The formulation of the research problems are: “What types of Face Threatening Acts (FTA) are performed in the conversational fragments among main characters in the Black Panther movie?” and “What Politeness Strategies of Face Threatening Acts (FTA) are performed the conversational fragments among main characters in the Black Panther movie?” The purpose of this research is related to the research problems are: To find out categorization of Face Threatening Acts (FTA) types are performed in the conversational fragments among main characters in the Black Panther movie and to find out politeness strategies of Face Threatening Acts (FTA) are performed in the conversational fragments among main characters in the Black Panther movie.This research design uses descriptive qualitative in the library research which aims at describing phenomenon of human and social behavior. The researcher analyzed the data in the form of conversational fragments in the movie script of Black Panther movie based on Brown and Levinson Theory of Politeness.The findings of this research that the researcher can conclude that there are many kinds of Face Threatening Act and Politeness Strategies that applied in this movie. Based on face threatening acts analysis in Black Panther movie, conclusions are mentioned as follows. Regarding to negative face threatening acts, it is found that the expressions of order and request, suggestion, advice, threat, offer, promise, compliment, expression of strong emotion of hatred, lust and anger toward hearer, giving thanks, acceptance of thanks. Positive face threatening acts are found the expressions of disapproval, criticism, contempt, ridicule, reprimand, accusation, contradiction, disagreement, self-humiliation, and confession; Politeness strategies: Bald on-record and Positive Politeness.