POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA’S SPEECH

Abstract

Abstract

Politeness means choosing your words carefully based on your relationship with the other person. Barack Obama is a public figure who has a great influence on the world, every time Barack Obama speaks all the people can trust, be heard, be noticed, and be proud of the community because the character of a president is very well-prepared.   The speaking style of a public figure must have a positive, good, and motivating use of grammar so that the public figure can become a role model for regular grammar because it will be highlighted. This makes researcher interested in researching Politeness strategies in Barack Obama's speech because found a lot of data containing Politeness strategies.  The purpose of this research is to find out the types of politeness strategies. Researcher used Descriptive Qualitative and data will be taken from Barack Obama's speech utterances from Politeness strategies. Based on the findings of the research, the data conclusions are drawn. The results of data analysis show that there are four types of politeness strategy according to Brown and Levinson (1987), there are Bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record in Obama’s speech.