POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY THE CHARACTERS OF BROOKLYN NINE-NINE TELEVISION SERIES

Abstract

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is an American comedy series directed by Dan Goor and Michael Schur. The story of this series is about a team of detectives in Brooklyn’s fictional 99^th Precinct. In this sitcom, the characters used politeness strategies in their conversation with others.  This study aims to analyse and determine the types of politeness strategies used by the characters of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” sitcom. This research is categorized into descriptive qualitative. The data were taken from a transcript of Brooklyn Nine-Nine episode 1 season 1. The data were analysed based on the framework proposed by Brown and Levinson (1987). The findings of the research show that there are four variants of politeness strategies used by the characters in the film: bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record. Bald of record and positive politeness strategies are mostly used because they are friends and they have known each other.