Power and impoliteness in Hancock action movie

Sani, Favian Reswara and Suhandoko, Suhandoko (2020) Power and impoliteness in Hancock action movie. Englisia: Journal of Language, Education, and Humanities, 8 (1). pp. 25-43. ISSN 2339-2576; 2527-6484

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Abstract

This study examined the strategies employed by the main character in the Hancock movie named John Hancock to attack his interlocutors’ face, the way the recipients responded to his impoliteness, and how he used impoliteness to exercise his power. By using content analysis to draw inferences from utterances in the movie transcript, the study found that positive impoliteness is the most frequent strategy used by Hancock due to its abusive nature and withhold impoliteness is the least used due to its unlikeliness to damage the interlocutor’s face. Also, the study found that the recipients used all strategies to respond to Hancock’s impoliteness, except abrogation and dismissing. At the same time, apart from Hancock’s use of impoliteness to exercise power, such as to appear as superior, to get power over actions, and to dominate the conversation as Beebe (1995) noted, this study found that silence is also a way to exercise power to maintain control of undesired situations. The finding adds substantially to our understanding that silence as an impoliteness strategy might also serve the purpose of exercising power. This, of course, is open to debate and further research would verify or contradict this claim.

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Additional Information: https://jurnal.ar-raniry.ac.id/index.php/englisia/article/view/6847
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Sani, Favian Reswara
favianreswara5@gmail.com
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Suhandoko, Suhandoko
suhandoko@uinsby.ac.id
2028058902
Uncontrolled Keywords: Power; impoliteness; Hancock Action Movie
Subjects: 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2004 Linguistics > 200403 Discourse and Pragmatics > 20040303 Pragmatics - Talk in Interaction
Divisions: Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: M.Pd Suhandoko Suhandoko
Date Deposited: 31 Dec 2021 10:32
Last Modified: 31 Dec 2021 10:39
URI: http://repository.uinsa.ac.id/id/eprint/1929

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