In western cultures, negative politeness behaviour will spring to our minds. In the western
culture-negative politeness is the most elaborate and the most conventionalized set of linguistic
strategies for FTA redress. The outputs are all forms that can be used in general for social
distancing, as opposed to positive politeness when the forms are for minimizing the social
distance (Sapitri, Chasanah, Putri, & Paulima, 2019). Negative politeness is used whenever a
speaker wants to put a social brake on the course of his interaction or to keep the social distance
and relationship stays where they are without crossing the line.
This study was conducted differently from the previous research where this study was
focused on negative politeness strategies (Mahmud, 2019). This study used the negative
politeness strategies based on the theories proposed by Brown and Levinson (1992). This
research focused on the character’s utterances that contain negative politeness strategies using
the movie Charlie’s Angels 2019.
Hopefully, this study can be useful for other upcoming researchers and of course
everyone who would like to learn in the same field (Simamora, 2020). In addition, this study
can be one of the sources to be investigated by future researchers in the context of Indonesian
society, also applies to the negative politeness strategies of Brown and Levinson (1992) can
advance everyone’s knowledge about it, especially for Indonesians.
RESEARCH METHOD
The qualitative method was used to analyse and describe the negative politeness
strategies as clearly as possible (Rahayuningsih, Saleh, & Fitriati, 2020). The research method
applied in this study consists of data source, method and techniques of collecting data, method
and techniques of analysing data, and method and techniques of presenting analysis (Blazquez
& Domenech, 2018).
The data were taken from a movie called Charlie’s angels 2019 a story about a team of
female private agents, famously known as Charlie's Angels, who are entrusted by their
mysterious boss to uncover an international conspiracy to weaponize an energy conservation
device. Charlie's Angels is a 2019 American action-comedy film written and directed by
Elizabeth Banks from a story by Evan Spiliotopoulos and David Auburn. It stars Naomi Scott,
Kristen Stewart, and Ella Balinska as the new generation of Angels who are working for a
private detective agency named the Townsend Agency. The reason why this movie was chosen
is that this movie involved different kinds of social class, status, race, and relationship to
support the analysis of negative politeness (Zainal, 2022). Also, it is a good example of how
people from different social classes, statuses, races, and relationships chose their utterances
and used negative politeness strategies in their conversations (Yassi, 2022). The technique
applied in collecting the data was including the following steps:
First, watch and listen carefully to the movie to take a note of the negative politeness that
can be found in the movie. While watching the film, the sentences or utterances that contain
negative politeness are marked. After that, read the script of the movie to make sure whether
the dialogue noted is correct or not. The utterance that contained a negative politeness strategy
was selected by doing the note-taking technique to collect possible data. In the end, the data
will be classified the strategies using the theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1992).
This study initially sorted the data from the data source which contain a negative
politeness strategy along with the screenshot and duration of the data. Followed by the analysis
of each of the data that will be sorted sequentially according to the order of Brown and
Levinson’s negative politeness strategies (1992).