IMPOLITENESS STRATEGIES USED IN LIONEL LOGUE’S UTTERANCES IN THE KING’S SPEECH MOVIE

Abstract

The objective of this study is to examine the language strategy used by the character of Lionel Logue in a movie entitled The King’s Speech. It is conducted to reveal his impoliteness strategy represented in the movie and the function of impoliteness in it. The investigation is based on Culpeper (1996) impoliteness strategies they are bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, sarcasm or mock politeness, and withhold politeness. This study applies qualitative method to analyze the data. Qualitative method is applied to describe the data in the form of sentences in the movie script. The movie subtitle as one of the data is taken from http://www.yifysubtitles.com/subtitles/thekings- speech-english-yify-948 [October 21, 2014]. The data are collected by using purposive sampling. The finding of this study exposes that Lionel Logue in this movie only uses three types of impoliteness; bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, and negative impoliteness. Through this analysis, it is proved that it seems Lionel employs impoliteness to gain an equal status in order to make his hearer feel close to him.