Politeness Strategies and Cooperative Principles on Selected Interviews Made by the Phenomenal Vice

Ganda

“Being polite and accurate matter the most in communication.”

The Phenomenal Vice Ganda!

Interviewer’s utterances

Politeness Strategies by

Brown and Levinson (1987)Grice’s

(1975) Cooperative

Principles

Findings

Transcription

Figure No.2 Schematic Diagram of the Flow of the Study

Statement of the Problem:

Specifically, this study attempts to answer the following queries: 1. Which type of politeness strategies based on Brown and Levinson (1987) are used by Vice Ganda as the interviewer in terms of: 1.1 Politeness Strategies 1.1.1 Positive Politeness Strategies;1.1.2 Negative Politeness Strategies; 1.1.3 Bald - on Record Strategies;1.1.4 Off – Record Strategies?

2.. Which type of maxims based on Grice’s (1975) Cooperative Principles are violated most by the Phenomenal Vice Ganda pertaining to: 2.1 Cooperative Principles 2.1.1 Maxim of Quality;2.1.2 Maxim of Quantity; 2.1.3 Maxim of Manner;2.1.4 Maxim of Relevance?

Research MethodologyQuantitative-Qualitative Research Research Subjects

Research instrument

Negative Positive Bald-on record

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FrequencyPercentage

(Vice and Koko interview, R5)Example 2: Negative strategy

(use of honorific address)

“ Senator Koko Pimentel, pag-usapan namanpo natin yung personal nyung buhay.”

(Vice and Coco interview, R57)Example 8. Positive strategy(usage of in-group markers)

“Hindi, sobrang tao kasi kami nito, sobrang normalpo kami nitong si Deng2x”

21

15 9 4

N1

= 4

9

Quantity Rele-vance

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Vice and Sena-tor Koko Pi-mentel inter-view percent-age

24 9 8 6

N2=

47

Quantity Manner Rele-vance

Quality total

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Vice and Coco Martin interview percentage

(Vice and Koko interview, R4)Example 14. Maxim of Quantity

“…si ano, si senator Nene Pimentel, oo, si SenatorNene Pimentel ang

ang tatay nyo lumikha ng local government code, hindi po ba?”

(Vice and Coco interview, R65)Example 15. Maxim of quantity

“Oo(prolong). (Everyone laughs)…Yung mukha n’yang to, yung nakikita n’yong mukha nya sa ano, n’ung, y’ung mukha nya sa

Ikaw Lamang, pagnag-aaway sila niJake Cuenca, gan’uny’ung mukha

n’ya sa akin, na para bang pinagbabantaannya ko sa tingin pa lang.

Sobrang bwesit ka sa’kin n’ung gabing y’un?”

QUANTITY MAXIM

NEGATIVE STRATEGIES

POSITIVE STRATEGIESDominated on Vice and Coco’s

Interview

Dominated on Vice and Koko’s Interview

Dominated on Vice ‘s utterances on both interviews

RECOMMENDATIONS

1. This study focused only on the frequency of the politeness strategies and the Gricean maxims in an interview. Future researchers could use this study as a reference and expand it through adding another variable.

2. Future researchers could also have one-on-one interview segments on a particular topic as their data. They can obtain data through written interviews like interviews from newspaper columns or articles aside from video clipping on interviews found on YouTube.

3. An application of Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategies and Gricean maxims in forums, debates, phone conversation and even variety of sent letters and messages are encouraged to see the similarities and dissimilarities of this study and establish patterns.

From: Elli May and Cheryl

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