| dc.description.abstract | Compared to Politeness, Impoliteness is a study in linguistics that linguists
and scholars pay less attention to. However, there are some experts and theorists who
start to think about discussing impoliteness in language. Culpeper (1995, 2002) is one
of the experts who have given much focus to it. One of his famous work is compiled
in a term called Impoliteness Strategies. Taking Brown and Levinson‘s (1995, 2002)
Politeness Strategies as the departing point, Culpeper proposes five strategies and sub
strategies which a speaker could use in attacking the hearer‘s face. Face itself is an
idea that was previously coined by Goffman (1967). It refers to someone‘s image and
someone‘s freedom to act; both of which is substituted with positive and negative
face term respectively.
In this thesis, the Impoliteness Strategies are used to analyze the interaction
between Sheldon Cooper with other main Characters in The Big bang Theory TV
Show; an American situational comedy. The nature of the study is descriptive. Thus,
the aim is to describe what impoliteness strategies Sheldon Cooper uses and how they
are performed throughout the show. The responses of the other characters are also
subject to research. This thesis uses the library research in analyzing the qualitative
data. The data are transcribed from the actual conversation between Sheldon Cooper
and the other main characters from the selected episodes of the show. The collected
data are then split into 16 extracts containing certain scenes in which different
contexts and different participants are involved. The results of the discussion present many different impoliteness strategies
used by Sheldon Cooper in his utterances. Bald-On record impoliteness, positive
impoliteness, negative impoliteness, and mock impoliteness are all evident. Withhold
impoliteness does not appear to be used by the character. The other characters, who
have become the victims of the Impoliteness Strategies, perform all three possible
ways to respond to Sheldon Cooper‘s impolite remarks; offensive and defensive
responses, accepting the speaker‘s attack, and ignoring the speaker. | en_US |
