PROGRESSIVE VOL XI. No. 2 September 2016 ISSN: 1979-4975 1 POLITENESS ANALYSIS OF MAIN CHARACTER “THE DESCENDANTS” MOVIE DIRECTED BY ALEXANDER PAYNE (A Linguistic Analysis) Danang Dwi Harmoko Sastra Inggris STIBA Nusa Mandiri Jl. Ir. H. Juanda No. 39 Ciputat Danangjuventini11@gmail.com ABSTRACT Rudeness and impoliteness are becoming an actual issue in recently days. That is way analyzing impoliteness becoming the interesting topic to be analyzed. Politeness is a way for someone in maintaining conducive environment for conversation so that the purpose of the conversation can be delivered well. Politeness can be formed in utterance (direct and indirect), face-expression, or body language. But sometimes, people are intentionally hurting somebody else by his or her words with a specific purpose. This case is called by violation on politeness maxim. In this research, the writer analyzes politeness degree in social interaction, especially the relationship between parents and their children. This research is grounded by the Politeness theory from Leech (1983). This research uses descriptive-qualitative method. Meanwhile, theories and the supporting data are gained by using library research. Those are purposed to get a comprehensive understanding about Politeness and its part inside. The dialogue of “The Descendants” movie is contained some maxims’ violation from politeness principles. Besides that, some indicators of impoliteness are also discovered such as, the usage of curse words, deprecate, and lying. Moreover, the writer also found the connection between broken family and children’s rudeness. Keywords: Politeness, Utterance, The Descendants. I. INTRODUCTION An effective conversation needs a cooperation between speaker and hearer. It needs to build up a good understanding and the message can be delivered well. According to H.P. Grice (1975: p.41-58) in conversation both speaker and hearer must follow four maxims: quality, quantity, relevance, and manner, which represents how people are anticipated to perform in a conversation, in general. During conversation, there are many possibilities of inconvenience such as debate and miss-understanding. Normally, people avoid to make an unpleasant condition to their partner in conversation. So, they use some words and phrases to reduce miss perception. This is common in a dialogue between the higher social status and lower social status, father and son, older and younger, and a new person that according to our sense needs to be acted politely. Leech in his book Principles of Pragmatic (p.131-139) introduces his idea that in conversation we not only have to obey the Conversational Principles but also we have to pay attention on the Politeness Principles. It consists of: tact, generosity, approbation, modesty, agreement, and sympathy maxim. Personal sense and territorial cultural are influencing the form of politeness. This discussion is becoming interesting because of its role in communication process. II. THEORETICAL REVIEW 2.1. Pragmatics The successful human interaction may be occasioned by verbal and non-verbal. Verbal factors are about contain or topic of brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by ejournal.nusamandiri.ac.id (STMIK Nusa Mandiri)