The Situation of Power and Distance in the Strategy of Impoliteness in the Film “Mencuri Raden Saleh”

Abstract

This research discusses the power and distance situations in impoliteness strategies within the film "Mencuri Raden Sholeh" using data from dialogues of the main characters containing impoliteness to examine the speaker's power and distance towards the interlocutor. This qualitative descriptive study employs a document analysis method. The findings reveal four variations of social contexts involving power and distance in the dialogues of the main characters in the film source: (+P –D), (–P –D), (+P, +D), and (–P +D).