IMPOLITENESS STRATEGIES IN AMERICAN TV SERIES “BONES” SEASON 2 EPISODE 1-3

Abstract

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the impoliteness strategies as representated in American TV Series “Bones”. There are three objectives of this research which include to identify the types of impoliteness strategies, to describe the purposes of employing impoliteness strategies, and to describe the responses of the hearers. This research employed descriptive qualitative method which provides description of the impoliteness strategies found in the TV Series “Bones”. The data were taken from the utterances spoken by the characters in the TV Series extracted from the transcript. The results of this research show that the off-record impoliteness is the most common impoliteness employed by the characters. There are a lot of dialogues showing a person who performs impoliteness strategy in a subtle way In terms of the purpose of employing impoliteness strategies, there are three types emerges in “Bones”. They include affective impoliteness, coercive impoliteness, and entertaining purpose. The most common purpose of impoliteness is coercive purpose because the movie has scenes which frequently show a person’s desire to make decision upon another person. Lastly, the most common response used is countering the face attack because almost all the characters choose to defend their own face by offending the attacker back.

Keywords: impoliteness, pragmatics, types, functions, purposes, Bones