ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS AND POLITENESS PRINCIPLES USED BY THE CHARACTERS OF TWILIGHT MOVIE

This research dealt with illocutionary acts and politeness principle in the movie Twilight.
The aim of the strategies used by the characters, (1) to investigate the kinds of illocutionary acts
used by the characters in Twilight movie,(2) to explain how the politeness principles used by the
characters (3) to know the reasons of those characters in employing politeness principles. The
research was conducted by using qualitative design. The source of data of this study was the
movie. The data were collected through documentary technique and the instrument was the
documentary sheet. The technique of data analysis was descriptive. The findings of this study
revealed that: (1) Based on the category of illocutionary acts by Searle, all categories of
illocutionary acts were found in this film.(2) The tact maxim was used for eighteen times by the
characters the dominant was showed that the characters in Twilight movie behave polite.. (3)The
reason of using politeness principles influenced culture, social distance, context.