Abstract :
This term paper mostly discusses the politeness strategies that is shown in Little
Women movie. Politeness is a social behaviour to a speaker towards deferent wishes of
the addressee in different concerns. The purpose of this study is to find the politeness
strategies and the most-frequent strategy that is used in Little Women movie. Based on
Brown and Levinson (1978), there are four types of politeness strategies. Those are
bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record. Descriptive
qualitative method is selected to analysed the data. The theories that were applied in
this study are Brown and Levinson?s theory (1978), which concerns about the
politeness strategies. The result of this term paper is shows that all of the characters use
all the politeness strategies from Brown and Levinson and the most frequent strategy
that is used by the characters is positive politeness. I hope that this research will help
the readers to get a better understanding about politeness strategies based on Brown
and Levinson.