Politeness Principle Used in The Edge of Seventeen Movie

Abstract

This research aimed to analyze the politeness principle by Geoffrey Leech in a coming-of-age movie The Edge of Seventeen and found the dominant maxim out of six Leech’s maxims, namely Tact, Generosity, Approbation, Modesty, Agreement, and Sympathy maxim. The research applied the descriptive method in analyzing the data. The data were utterances uttered by characters in the movie. The data were collected through watching the movie and reading the moving script repeatedly, screenshotting the scene, coding the data, and the last classifying the data. The result of this research is described as follows: First, the researcher found the use of the politeness principle contained utterances that obey and disobey the maxims. Second, found that the Approbation maxim is the dominant one in the movie with a total of 12 pieces of data.abstract should summarize the content of the paper.