POLITENESS STRATEGIES EMPLOYED BY THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE GOOD MORNING BRITAIN ENTITLED “SHOULD THERE BE A LIMIT TO GENDER IDENTITIES?”

By theory of Brown and Levinson (1987), this thesis aims to identify the politeness
strategies used in the greetings between the host and the guest star in conveying their
arguments for making good communication on the Good Morning Britain program.
This study used descriptive qualitative method. The data was obtained from a
conversation script that occurred between the host and the guest star, on the talk show
on the Good Morning Britain Youtube Channel which aired on September 11, 2019.
Based on the data obtained, there were 110 politeness strategies used during the talk
show. The findings prove that the Positive Politeness strategy is the strategy most used
by presenters and resource persons, namely 54.5%. The next politeness strategy that
is also widely used is the Off Record 19.1 % strategy. Then the Negative Politeness
strategy was found to be 16.4%. The least used politeness strategy, namely the Bald
On Record strategy, is only found in 10% of utterances. From these results it can be
said that the conversation went well, and the speakers kept their faces, this is
evidenced by the use of the most widely used positive politeness strategy. This might
happen because the event is an event that debates a topic that is very risky and has a
very big opportunity to offend many parties, besides that the closeness between the
presenter and the speaker is not so close that it creates boundaries between them.
Keywords: Politeness Strategies, Talk Show