Abstract :
This study aims to analyse the positive politeness strategy in the film entitled ?Five
Feet Apart?. The objectives of the research are to find the positive politeness
strategies in relation Brown and Levinson politeness strategy in a film written by
Mikki Daughtry and Tobias Iaconis. This research deals with pragmatic approach.
It is a descriptive qualitative study. The data of the research were script in the film
from Justin Baldoni. Here, only the types of positive politeness strategies were
analysed. The researcher uses Brown Levinson?s politeness strategy. Finally, the
researcher find out the kind of positive politeness strategy, there are 15 strategies
of positive politeness strategy. From the result, the researcher has found 21 data
which content of positive politeness strategies. Then, the researcher also found
payoff and circumstances as some factors which influencing positive politeness
strategies. The other finding of the research is that the reason employing the factors
that influence the positive politeness strategy. Payoff is fulfilled because in
employing positive politeness strategy, the speaker can get some advantages. The
speaker can minimize the FTA by assuring the hearer that the speaker considers
himself to be the same kind that he agrees the hearer and intends to fulfil the hearer
wants. It is found in the entire data. The second is circumstances which include
social distance (SD), power relation (PR), and size of imposition (SoI).