Abstract :
Communication is an activity that usually occurs in the social context. People use
communication to engage to each other, with a particular purpose, such as
exchanging information, negotiating things, and so on. Basically, when doing
communication, we should pay attention to the language politeness, in which it
can show our courtesy when talking to each other. Therefore, language politeness
is needed in our casual conversation. The purpose of this study is to provide an
understanding of two main politeness strategies; the positive and negative
politeness which are used by the characters in ?Let It Snow? movie. This study
uses qualitative approach, and content analysis method to conduct the research.
The result of the study shows that the characters in ?Let It Snow? movie use
positive politeness more frequently than the negative one. In this study, there are
(37) positive politeness strategy utterances and (23) negative politeness
utterances. They use positive politeness strategy to minimize the distance between
each other (speaker and listener), while negative politeness is used as a form of
respecting to each other.