Politeness or impoliteness in Joyce E. Bernal’s Super Parental Guardians: an application of Jonathan Culpepers’ Impoliteness Theory using a Filipino film
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2019
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Meliza B. Labbao
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This research was conducted to determine the impoliteness super strategies utilized in the film, “Super Parental Guardians”. The ten (10) selected scenes were analyzed using the Impoliteness Theory of Jonathan Culpeper (1996). The responses and reasons of the respondents of Brgy. Bical science City of Munoz regarding impoliteness was analyzed using Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis: Linguistic Relativity (1956).
The results revealed that all the five (5) impoliteness super strategies were portrayed in the film as communicative strategies to show impoliteness. The Ilocano and Tagalog respondents portrayed differences in presenting different reasons showing the culture and social reality of their language regarding impoliteness. The notions of impoliteness super strategies, sarcasm and withhold impoliteness are not portrayed in the culture of their language.
Therefore, this study is a presentation of varying perspective reflective of their cultural ideologies regarding impoliteness proposed by Culpeper in the community of Brgy. Bical as reflected in the film “Super parental Guardians”. Herein, it reflects that linguistic impoliteness is linguistically relative to the culture of specific communities.