An Examination Of Barack Obama's Victory Speech's Politeness Strategy

Abstrak

This research is on pragmatics politeness of Barack Obama’s victory speech. This research is descriptive qualitative research. This research focuses on Barack Obama’s utterances in his victory speech in Chicago, November 4^th 2008. The writer uses the politeness strategy of Brown-Levinson’s theory in using the strategies, such as positive and negative politeness of the politeness strategies form by Barack Obama as figure political or president in his utterance from his victory speech. The research findings show that Barack Obama applied politeness strategy since he delivered his utterance in his victory speech. Obama applied positive politeness strategies to show FTA. As elected president in America, Barack Obama uses politeness strategy in his utterance during his victory speech. By applying Brown and Levinson theory, Barack Obama performed positive politeness strategy by joking, intensify interesting, exaggerating, complimenting, including S and H in the activity, be optimistic, promising, offering, and assuming or asserting reciprocity. It means Barack Obama used positive politeness strategies in his utterances.