Politeness Strategies on Online News Readers Comments on TikTok Republica Account

This study aimed at identifying the types of politeness strategies based on Brown
netizen. This study was conducted by applying descriptive qualitative method. The
source of the data were taken from comments perform by netizen on Republica
Online TikTok account. The technique for analyzing the data is qualitative research.
The results of this research showed that there are four types of figurative, there are
four politeness are used, which are Bald on Record, Positive Politeness, Negative
Politeness, and Off Record. There were 50 comments. In total there are 2 comments
on Bald on Record (4%), 30 comments on Positive Politeness (60%), 14 comments
on Negative Politeness (28%) and 4 comments on Off Record (8%). From the
analysis, the researcher found the Positive Politeness are often the netizen use when
commenting on Republica Online TikTok account. The researcher concluded that
the used of Politeness Strategies was influenced by the content that posted by
Republica Online TikTok account because they posted an information about
bereavement, about loss so the netizen most choose to use Positive Politeness in
commenting to give their response, even
categories of Politeness Strategies.