AN ANALYSIS OF POSITIVE POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JOE BIDEN

Rika, Indah Agustini and Yusrita, Yanti (2023) AN ANALYSIS OF POSITIVE POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN THE FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JOE BIDEN. Diploma thesis, Universitas Bung Hatta.

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Abstract

This research studies about the positive politeness strategies in the first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Politeness not only occur in daily conversations, but also in the dialogue found in debate. The purpose of this research to find the positive politeness strategies related according to Brown and Levinson in presidential debate. This research deals with pragmatic approach. The first presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is one of the most interesting subject to be analyzed in positive politeness strategies. This debate discussion is being hosted as a chance to communicate the vision and mission of the presidential candidate to the general audience. and mission, strategies and viewpoints on national issues, persuading arguments, and the capacity of presidential candidates to lead their people and learn how important to each other. Thus, the purpose this research are (1) to find the types of positive politeness strategies used by Donald Trump and Joe Biden. (2) to find the factor influencing the choice of positive politeness strategies. This research used descriptive qualitative research. It is done by collecting data, analyzing data that is a positive politeness strategy form utterances uttered by the debate candidat, giving explanation and drawing conclusion in the first presidential debate. Finally the writer find out two points, the first point is the writer found 8 strategies from 15 strategies based on Brown and Levinson, the writer found 17 dialogue contained in the 8 strategies of positive politeness and the most found is the thirteen strategies, namely give (or ask for) reasons, there are 4 dialogue found in that strategy. The second point is the writer found 2 factor influencing the choice of strategy, they are payoff and relevant circumstances, payoff found in 6 data, and factor of relevant circumstances found in 11 data, namely relative power found in 4 data, social distance found in 2 data, and imposition found in 5 data.

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