Positive and negative politeness strategies used by David Muir and Donald Trump on "ABC News" and in "Charlie Rose show"

This research examines Donald trump and David Muir's positive politeness and negative politeness strategies on ABC News and in Charlie Rose Show. The researcher also focuses positive and negative politeness used by David Muir and Donald Trump. The researcher mainly utilized Prgmatics theory by Brown and levinson which consist of four strategies, there are positive politeness, negative politeness, bald on record, and off record but, the researcher only focuses in positive politeness and negative politeness. As the methodology,the researcher used descriptive-qualitativeapproach to concern the description and the interpretation of Donald Trump videos.Under descriptive-qualitative method, this research significantly gives a widerunderstanding about how linguistic subjects emerges through pragmatics structure.The researcher gathered the data by downloading the interviews of Donald Trumpon ABC News and In Charlie Rose Show. Thus, the researcher categorized the data to be analyzed in positive politeness and negative politeness strategies by David Muir and Donald Trump and the factors that influenced positive and negative politeness used by David Muir and Donald Trump. As the result, there are 40 data collected in this research. There are 10 types of positive politeness and 5 types of negative politeness. Moreover, There are two factors that influenced David Muir and Donald Trump. Those are social distance and relative power.