POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED IN BUKAN EMPAT MATA’S PROGRAM

Abstract

Finding out the politeness strategies used in the entertaining program on television “Buka Empat Mata’s program” is the aim of this study. Entertaining people is one of the function of the language. This program involved some guest stars to entertain people. In order to get the purpose, being polite in entertaining is needed. The way to save the image (face) is called politeness strategies. Politeness strategies are different used by different people. Something can be polite for one person can be perceived as impolite to other. Thus, as human being is different, the ways of being polite is also different. This study applied descriptive qualitative method. The data are all the transcription of the utterances uttered by the participants in that program. The result show that there are only two types of politeness strategies used by the participants, namely bald on record startegy and positive politeness strategy. From these two types, positive politeness strategy is dominantly used by the prticipants. It is shown by the use of “Joke”. Joking is used for many times to entertain the hearer. It can be concluded that the choice of the words is needed in communication. In this study, speakers were trying to entertain the hearers by joking.