| dc.description.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. | en_US |
