IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature
Vol 11, No 1 (2023): IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Liter

An Analysis of Impoliteness Strategies in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” Movie

Kelvin Kelvin (English Literature, Universitas Putera Batam, Batam, Indonesia)
Gaguk Rudianto (English Literature, Universitas Putera Batam, Batam, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
20 Jul 2023

Abstract

This study applied pragmatics study to analyze impoliteness strategies that based on the movie titled “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” directed by Marielle Heller. The aim of this study was to discover the strategies of impoliteness that occurred from the conversation in the movie. The utterances were found and gathered by applying the theory of Culpeper (1996) for the data source. The object of this research was impoliteness strategies. The data source contained the conversation that was uttered by the characters from the movie “Can You Ever Forgive Me?”. The descriptive qualitative research design was employed to obtain the research findings. The data were acquired in a non-participatory method, which means that no participants were required during the process of data collection. The results revealed that the movie utilized all impoliteness strategies. It was found that bald-on-record impoliteness had five utterances, positive impoliteness had four, negative impoliteness had three, sarcasm/mock impoliteness contained two, and withhold politeness had only one.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ideas

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Subject

Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

IDEAS Journal is published twice a year in the months of June and December (P-ISSN 2338-4778 and E-ISSN 2548-4192); it presents articles on English language teaching and learning, linguistics, and literature. The contents include analyses, studies and application of theories, research report, ...