POSITIVE POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY ALBUS POTTER IN “HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD” PLAY

Abstract

There are aspects that need to be considered when we are communicating with other people. One of those aspect is politeness, especially politeness strategies.  There are four strategies of politeness which are bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record. This paper aims to analyze positive politeness strategies used by Albus Potter in Harry Potter and The Cursed Child Play Part One, Act One as well as to better understand the use of politeness strategies. The data are taken from the script of Harry Potter and The Cursed Child Play. The research procedures are reading the script, identifying the positive politeness strategy used in the utterances, classifying the positive politeness strategy, finding out which strategy is most used by the main character and explain the reason why the main character use it. The results showed that Use In-Group Identity Markers (Strategy 4), Seek Agreement(Strategy 5), and Avoid Disagreement (Strategy 6) is the most used politeness strategy and Albus uses it mainly to retain his relationship with his parents and friends as well as to get people’s cooperations.