The Influence of Character Traits to the Politeness Using on Serial Drama Losmen Bu Broto

Abstract

This study aims to describe the impact of characters to use politeness in the drama. This study is a pragmatic research. The type of this study is a qualitative descriptive because the result of this study is in the form of explanation about the use of politeness. The data of this research were collected by using document analysis techniques. The results show that the character had by the listener affect the speaker use of politeness strategy. In the drama, it is found that the speaker who talk to the protagonist character mostly use positive politeness, whether to the antagonist they use more of negative politeness and bald on record.