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This study aims to identify the positive politeness strategies performed by the
main character in Ron Clark movie. Likewise, this study find out how often the
positive politeness strategies performed and which type of positive politeness
strategies that are most frequently used by the main character in the movie. The writer
classified and described the kinds and the meaning of positive politeness strategies of
the main character in The Ron Clark movie.
The writer used qualitative method by collecting data from watching the movie,
reading the script, classifying and analyzing the data into kinds of positive politeness
strategies. The data of this study were collected from the utterances of the main
character in the movie. Then, the data were classified into kinds of positive politeness
strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson.
As the result, the writer found 25 data of positive politeness strategies
performed by the main character in the movie. Positive politeness strategies in this
study found that strategy 2 found one data (4%), strategy 4 found three data (12%),
strategy 5 found six data (24%), strategy 6 found one data (4%), strategy 9 found one
data (4%), strategy 10 found two data (8%), strategy 11 found two data (8%), strategy
12 found four data (16%), strategy 13 found three data (12%), strategy 15 found two
data (8%).