This research was conducted to discover the way the characters employudcompliment also compliment responses and the politeness strategies employed by theudcharacters in giving and responding to compliment in the movie entitled “The DeviludWears Prada”. Five major theories mainly used are Holmes’s Social Dimension’s ofudCommunication, Hymes’ SPEAKING theory, Chaika’s theory of kinesics, andudHerbert’s theory of compliment responses, and Brown and Levinson’s theory ofudpoliteness strategies. This research applies a socio-pragmatic approach as the way ofudanalysis. This research is arranged using a descriptive qualitative method. All theuddialogs containing compliment and compliment responses were taken as data.udThe results of the analysis can be seen as follows:udFirst, the compliments delivered by characters come along with combination ofudnon-verbal acts. The addressees respond to compliments in various ways. Four types ofudcompliment responses were delivered by the characters. The responses are appreciationudtoken, scale down, question, and disagreement. The characters respond to theudcompliment with a combination of verbal and non-verbal acts or only non-verbal acts.udSecond, all characters employ positive politeness in delivering compliments. Inudresponding compliment, the characters employ different strategies. The strategies areudpositive politeness, negative politeness, and saying nothing or do not do FTA.
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