Strategi ketidaksopanan pada ungkapan Lionel Logue dalam film The King's Speech (Impoliteness Strategies Used in Lionel Logue's utterances in The King's Speech movie)

Abstract

The use of communicative strategies that are to maintain social harmony called politeness does not always run well in a conversation. In fact, impoliteness strategies that are used to disturb social harmony also occur. People may misunderstand and draw wrong inference to politeness or impoliteness. Impoliteness can be analyzed from the speaker's and the hearer's perspectives since it depends on the speaker's intention and the hearer's reception. Therefore, the more comprehensive the study on impoliteness lain linguistic perspective, the better it will be, particularly from pragmatic outlooks. Considering the phenomenon explained before, the present study aims to describe the types of impoliteness strategies used by character in The King's Speech movie and to explain the function of impoliteness strategies in it. This study is conducted by using qualitative methods. The data were in the form of utterances spoken by the Lionel Logue. The result of this study shows that there are three impoliteness strategies occurs in this film. It is also found that the function of impoliteness is to gain an equal status in order to make his hearer feel close to him.