The Politeness strategies used by Blanche Dubois in Williams' a Streetcar Named Desire - Digital Collection of Petra Christian University

This study is about Politeness Strategies, which are the strategies used to avoid or
minimize the threat on the interlocutor's face. The researcher intended to find the type of
Politeness used the most by Blanche to Eunice and Mitch. The type can be the
unredressed Bald On Record, solidarity and informality-based Positive Politeness,
formality-based Negative Politeness, or indirect Off Record. He analysed whether the
Politeness Strategy used the most to each of the two characters is appropriate or not
based on the Contextual Factors between the interactants using the theories of Brown and
Levinson's. It was intended to learn how to be appropriate in using Politeness Strategies
so that our interlocutors can feel comfortable. After doing the analysis, the researcher
found that Blanche applies formality-based Negative Politeness the most to Eunice. It is
inappropriate because their relationship is not based on Power(P) but on Distance(D)
which has been reduced by Eunice using solidarity and informality-based Positive
Politeness, which suggests that Eunice wants to get a better relationship. Therefore
Blanche should apply Positive Politeness too to show solidarity and make Eunice feel
comfortable. On the other hand, when talking to Mitch, Blanche employs Positive
Politeness the most. It is appropriate because the situation they are in is informal and the
one she is talking to is a lower-class man who speaks using Positive Politeness. Blanche's
Politeness Strategy used to Mitch proves to be right in which Mitch feels alright.

Contributor
• (76-012) Josefa Juniarti Mardijono
• (94-029) Aylanda Hidayati Dwi Nugroho

Subject
1. WILLIAMS, TENNESSEE,1911-1983. A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE-STUDY AND TEACHING
2. AMERICAN DRAMA-20TH CENTURY-STUDY AND TEACHING

Category
s1 - Skripsi/Undergraduate Thesis (Program Studi Sastra Inggris S-1)

Rights
Undergraduate Thesis No. 639; Henry Prasetya (11489088)
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