ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES
USED IN The Late Show with David Letterman with Emma Watson as guest star
David Michael Letterman is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer, and actor. He hosts Late Show with David Letterman – American late night television talk show broadcast on CBS. David Letterman was ranked 45 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time in 1996. A guest star - Emma Watson is known as an English actress, model, and activist. This paper is going to analyze the transcript of David Letterman’s talk show with Emma Watson basing on ‘politeness’ theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1978). The study focuses on bald on record, positive politeness and negative politeness strategies.
Brown and Levinson’s ‘politeness’ theory introduces the notion of ‘face’ in order to demonstrate ‘politeness’. Face is defined as “the public self-image that every member” of society “wants to claim for himself” (Brown and Levinson 1987: 61). Brown and Levinson claim that face is “something that is emotionally investigated, and that can be lost, …show more content…
In using bald on record type 1 in David Letterman’s talk show with Emma Watson, there are cases of non-minimization of the face threat. David Letterman uses strategy 2 – metaphorical urgency for emphasis when uttering “Take a look” (105) because the maximum efficiency is very important. Another one is strategy 3 namely Metaphorical urgency for high valuation of H’s friendship. The utterance “Good to see you” (109) is used as the metaphorical entreaty stressing the Letterman’s high valuation of the Emma Watson's friendship. Strategy 7 - Sympathetic advice or warnings is also used by the host which is illustrated by “You should be” (28). In doing the FTA, Letterman conveys that he does care about Emma Watson and therefore he cares about her positive face, so no redress is required. As a result, this advice is baldly on
USED IN The Late Show with David Letterman with Emma Watson as guest star
David Michael Letterman is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer, and actor. He hosts Late Show with David Letterman – American late night television talk show broadcast on CBS. David Letterman was ranked 45 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time in 1996. A guest star - Emma Watson is known as an English actress, model, and activist. This paper is going to analyze the transcript of David Letterman’s talk show with Emma Watson basing on ‘politeness’ theory proposed by Brown and Levinson (1978). The study focuses on bald on record, positive politeness and negative politeness strategies.
Brown and Levinson’s ‘politeness’ theory introduces the notion of ‘face’ in order to demonstrate ‘politeness’. Face is defined as “the public self-image that every member” of society “wants to claim for himself” (Brown and Levinson 1987: 61). Brown and Levinson claim that face is “something that is emotionally investigated, and that can be lost, …show more content…
In using bald on record type 1 in David Letterman’s talk show with Emma Watson, there are cases of non-minimization of the face threat. David Letterman uses strategy 2 – metaphorical urgency for emphasis when uttering “Take a look” (105) because the maximum efficiency is very important. Another one is strategy 3 namely Metaphorical urgency for high valuation of H’s friendship. The utterance “Good to see you” (109) is used as the metaphorical entreaty stressing the Letterman’s high valuation of the Emma Watson's friendship. Strategy 7 - Sympathetic advice or warnings is also used by the host which is illustrated by “You should be” (28). In doing the FTA, Letterman conveys that he does care about Emma Watson and therefore he cares about her positive face, so no redress is required. As a result, this advice is baldly on