POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN “KICK ANDY” TALK SHOW PROGRAM ON METRO TV

This qualitative descriptive research deals with the Politeness Strategies in “Kick Andy” Talk Show Program on Metro TV. The objectives of this study were to find out the types of politeness strategies used by the interviewees in “Kick Andy” talk show program, and to investigate the reasons of the types of politeness strategies are used. The data were taken from three episodes of Kick Andy Talk Show Program in 2014 years. The data were collected by downloading the video of Kick Andy talk show Program from www.youtube and then were transcribed. The data were analyzed by qualitative research based on interactive model which is created by Miles and Huberman. The result of the research shown that all types of politeness strategies used in “Kick Andy” talk show program. However, these strategies were not used by all interviewees in three different episodes. Off record was not used in episode III with topic “Jadi Guru, Ya Harus Kreatif”. The percentage in using bald on record strategy was 9,81%, positive politeness strategy was 42,03%, negative politeness strategy was 5,01%, and off record strategy was 11,01%. Positive Politeness strategy used since the interviewees want to build familiarity, solidarity, and friendship, to come closer to the interviewer, to recognize H’s positive face and he also has the same want and they want to satisfy the H’s positive face so that the conversation feel relax and comfortable in that show. Other reasons found in this research since the interviewees want to make a joke or humor and they want to avoid a deep evaluation because of the show broadcasted on television station.