THE ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN CHARACTER’S SPEAKING STRATEGIES IN STRUGGLING AGAINST ALZHEIMER

This research aimed to analyze utterances used by the main character in the film
„Still Alice‟ (2014), Alice, in her effort to struggle against Alzheimer. It
described and explained the utterances in relation to her profession as a
Linguistic Professor and her Alzheimer. The data were taken from both the film
and also its script. There were three objectives of the research, that were types
of positive politeness strategy used by Alice for struggling against Alzheimer,
the explanation about the way Alice used these types in her utterances and the
reasons of using these types of her utterances. Descriptive qualitative was
applied as a research method, while Positive Politeness Strategy and Discourse
in Film as the main approach to find out the objective of the research. The result
was that there were three positive politeness : promise strategy, be optimistic
strategy and giving understanding as strategies employed by Alice in her
utterances that have been used to fight against her illness, Alzheimer.