POLITENESS STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE JORDAN PETERSON DESTROYS Q&A YOUTUBE PROGRAM

This research aimed to find out politeness strategies employed by the
participants of Jordan Peterson Destroys Q&A YouTube Program and
the situational contexts in which politeness strategies employed by the
participants. This research was a descriptive quantitative. The subject of
this research was Jordan Peterson Destroys Question and Answer
Program in live streaming YouTube from Melbourne. The data were
collected from the script document of Jordan Peterson Destroys Q&A in
YouTube. The researcher analyzed the data by applying the theory of
Brown and Levinson (1987). The instrument of this research was
observation checklist. The result of this study showed that there were
four types of politeness strategies employed by the characters in Jordan
Peterson Destroys Q&A on YouTube namely Bald-on record, Positive
politeness, Negative politeness, and Off-record strategy. It was also
found the situational context used by the characters. In conclusion,
among the four strategies, the positive politeness strategy was the most
frequent strategy that occurred 68 times out of 106 total data. The
speakers used situational context based on their role and profession in
society. It is suggested that the next researcher can conduct a further
study about other pragmatic elements that are not discussed in this study
so that readers can get plenty of references about politeness strategies.
Keywords: Jordan Peterson, Politeness, Politeness Strategy, YouTube.