Abstract :
This research aims to analyze the positive and negative politeness strategies employed in
utterances and the factors that affected the choice of the strategy in a movie script using several
theories in pragmatics, including pragmatic theories, context theories, politeness strategy theories,
and factors in choosing politeness strategy theories. This research used a qualitative approach. This
research is conducted using a descriptive qualitative method to describe the types of politeness
strategies employed in main character utterances and also the factors that affected the main
character's choice of strategy. In collecting the data, I used purposive sampling. In analyzing the
data, there were several steps that I took. They are data reduction, data display, and drawing
conclusions. The research object is the Fantastic Beast: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) movie
script. This movie script is written by J.K. Rowling in 2018. The results of this research show that
the main character of the movie script uses two types of politeness strategies in his utterances,
namely positive and negative politeness strategies. The main character employs eight positive
politeness strategies: exaggerate; intensify interest in the hearer; seek agreement; avoid
disagreement; presume, raise, and assert common ground; be optimistic; give (or ask for) reasons;
and give gifts to the hearer. Then for negative politeness strategies, five strategies are used: be
conventionally indirect; be pessimistic; minimize the imposition; give deference; and apologize.
Also, there are two factors that influence the main character's choice of strategy, which are the
payoffs and the circumstances