Positive Politeness Strategy by Jamie And Landon in a Walk to Remember Novel By Nicholas Spark

This study aims to investigate the positive politeness strategy used by Jamie and Landon utterances in A Walk to Remember novel by Nicholas Sparks. Then, the writer investigates the factor that affects them from applying a positive politeness strategy. This study uses a qualitative content analysis in yielding. Focus on 15 kinds of positive politeness strategy by Brown and Levinson and the factor affects the use of positive politeness strategy. Generally, there are 11 kinds from 15 kinds of positive politeness strategy found in the utterances of Jamie and Landon. Those are noticing, exaggerating, intensifying interest to the hearer, using in-group identity, seeking agreement, avoiding disagreement, presupposing, offering and promising, being optimistic, including both speaker and hearer, giving gifts to hearer. Jamie applies 51 times of positive politeness strategy in her utterances and “Including both speaker and hearer” is a strategy she most used with 10 times. On another side, there are 43 utterances of Landon that found as positive politeness strategy. “Intensifying interest to hearer” is strategy he used mostly. He applied it 7 times with percentages 16%. Besides, the factor that affects them applies to this strategy is payoffs. It means that they show their solidarity, cooperation, and friendship to their hearer.