POSITIVE POLITENESS STRATEGIES TYPES BY KAZ FIRPO, PATRICK BURLEIGH, AND RYAN FIRPO IN THE ETERNALS MOVIE SCRIPT

Abstract

Eternals is an American superhero movie in 2021 by Kaz Firpo. The saga of The Eternals, a race of immortals, lived on Earth and shaped its history and civilization. It follows the events of Avengers: Endgame (2019). An unexpected tragedy forces the Eternals, ancient aliens who have lived on Earth in secret for thousands of years and gone out of the shadows, to reunite against humanity's most ancient foes, the Deviants. This movie illustrates a vivid example of using positive and negative politeness strategies in the utterances of The Eternals movie’s cast. As a result, this attracts the reader's attention to analyze the use of positive and negative politeness strategies in The Eternals movie. A problem is formulated: what types of positive politeness strategies are used by Ikaris in the movie “The Eternals”?

Public document analysis used as a research method, where The Eternals movie script is the data source. In analyzing the data, the thesis writer uses the theory of positive politeness strategies from Brown and Levinson (1987) to classify the utterances from Ikaris in The Eternals movie into fifteen positive politeness strategies.

Key Words: Politeness, Politeness Strategies, Positive Politeness Strategies