Politeness in Firends TV Series: Does it Represent American Value?

Indrawati Indrawati, Sri Samiati Tarjana, Joko Nurkamto

Abstract

This research intends to analyze utterances of conversation in Friend’s TV Series Season 1 of 24 episodes to find out whether or not politeness represents American value, especially the value of independence with which American Society is associated with. The method used is content analysis in which eleven speech situations with the theme of ‘friendship’ and sub themes of ‘asking for favor’ and ‘gift giving’ are analyzed. First, utterances are analyzed to see the form and meaning; second, they are identified of their politeness function. Third, they are analyzed to see their relation with the value of independence; fourth or lastly, language feature of each politeness is identified. The result of the research shows that politeness showing agreement is realized in 7 speech situations or 63.64%; politeness showing tact is realized in 4 speech situations or 36.36%; and politeness showing generosity is realized in only one speech situation or 9.09%. The language feature used are the words of support and agreement: yeah, right, go, okay, sure, you got it, I can’t believe. 

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.20961/pras.v0i0.32038

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