POLITENESS PRINCIPLE MAXIMS FOUND IN THE PODCAST ENTITLED: “MARK OF NCT 127 NEVER STOPS TALKING, CAN ANYONE 'FACT CHECK' THIS CONVO?! DAEBAK SHOW S3 EP.15”

Abstract

Communicating using polite language is one of the important things used in daily communication. It is important to behave and speak well in accordance with the rules applied in the community. This is necessary in order to reach a proper communication that pleases all parties involved. Therefore, this study was intended to find out types of the politeness principle maxims used in the Podcast with title: “MARK of NCT 127 Never Stops Talking, Can Anyone 'Fact Check' This Convo?! Daebak Show S3 Ep.15” The researcher used a qualitative method while the data was analyzed descriptively. Furthermore, this study categorized the data based on Leech theory of politeness principle in the form of six maxims. Those are Tact maxim, Generosity Maxim, Approbation Maxim, Modesty Maxim, Agreement Maxim and Sympathy Maxim. The result of this study showed that there are six politeness principle maxims used in this podcast with the data as follow: 18 Approbation maxims, 7 Tact maxims, 4 Modesty maxims, 3 Generosity maxims, 3 Agreement maxims, and 1 Sympathy maxims. From 36 data gained, it was found that Approbation maxim is the most used maxim on the podcast while in contrast, the most frequent maxim used is sympathy maxim. Keywords: communication, politeness principle maxims, pragmatic