An Analysis of Negative Politeness Strategies as Found in the Movie Series The Lord of The Rings Movie

Politeness strategies refer to communication strategies used by people in interactionor communication to show their good manners and usually consider the faces of theinteracting parties. It is one of the ways a person interacts with others by attending topoliteness strategies to create the efficient, non-antagonistic, and mutually cooperativeexchange of idea, feelings, and usually consider to the faces of the interacting parties. Thereare four types of politeness strategies, they are bald on record, positive politeness, negativepoliteness and off the record.But for this resrearch writer only focuses on negativepoliteness strategies in the movie series of The Lord of The Rings movie.Negative politeness is expression from the speakers to the hearers with minimizingof imposition.Negative politeness is addresser’s recognizes and respects the hearer’snegative face wants and will not (or only minimally) interfere with the hearer’s freedom ofaction. The speakers can benefit by using the negative politeness,(1), the speakers show therespect and deference to the hearer in return for FTA , (2) avoid incurring a future debt, (3)to maintain social distance, (4) and avoid the threat of advancing familiarity towards thehearer. There are ten strategies of negative politeness according to Brown and Levinson(1987). They are be conventionally indirect, question hedge, be pessimistic, minimizeimposition, give deference, apologize, impersonalize things (Speaker and Hearer), state theFTA as general rule, go on record incurring a debt, and nominalizationIn this research, the writers applied Brown and Levinson’s theory (1987) to analyzenegative politeness strategies that is used by the characters in the movie. Negativepoliteness strategies are used to redressing hearer's negative face and emphasize preventionof imposition on the hearer.In other word, negative politeness is addresser’s respecttowards the addressee giving him/her freedom to action.The method used in this study is qualitative method.A qualitative method isresearch strategy that indicates the relationship between theory and research a usuallyemphasizes on how theories were generated by using word not numeric (Sudaryanto1993;MilesHplease,sir,andmr. Based on the findings above, the writer found three of negative politeness strategiesthat are often used by characters in the movie, they are; give deference strategy, apologizestrategy, and go on record strategy with different form hedges to maximize the negativepoliteness strategies. There are three form of hedges used to show the negative politenessstrategies, they are; word, phrase, and sentence. The writer also found the hedges thatfunction to maximize the utterances by actors in the movie.The hedges can be seen fromthe conversation which is used by actors in the movie which relate with the context. Theactors used difference hedges to show the negative politeness strategies. In addition, thewriters get the result of category of hedges in the movie series of The Lord of The Ringsmovie.In conclusion, movie is one of media that have many topics that can be analyzed,one of them is negative politeness. Politeness strategy depends on the context influenced insocial interaction. The hearer must know the context to understand what the speaker’sintention. Context is related with situation and condition where the dialogue happened. Inthe movie, there are several context influence the characters in having dialogues.Finally, this research can be used as an inspiration to do the further research aboutpoliteness strategy in interpersonal communication.Keyword: politeness strategies, negative politeness strategies, context