The dominant maxim that is used sympathy maxim.furthermore,the conclusion of the study showed that the characters in "The karate kid" movie follow measurement of the pragmatic scales to express their politeness.Those pragmatic scales are the cost-benefit scale,the optionality scale,the indirectness scale,the power/authority scale,and the social distance scale.
the researcher coucluded that positive politeness strategies in the novel and the main function is to minimize the potential threat of face threatening act
This research tries to reveral the phenomenon of politeness strategy which focuses on positive politeness strategy, and the data is taken from Kolinda Grabar Kitavoric's Speech. the research recomended to the next researche to conduct the research on positive politeness in the other forms of object their study, such as debate, magazine, newspaper and etc. in order to expand the area of investig…
the researcher coucluded that positive politeness strategies in the novel and the main function is to minimize the potential threat of face threatening act