This study examines the politeness strategies of characters in Princess Diaries movie. The data were utterances Mia and her grandmother, main analysis is based on Scollon Scollon's theory. As a result, researcher found that Her Grandmother employed two types politeness: involvement independent strategies. used twenty strategies, including four sixteen other hand, fifteen strategies: twelve thre...

According to politeness theory (P. Brown & S. Levinson, 1987), politeness serves to both reflect and regulate social distance. On the basis of this notion and on construal level theory (N. Liberman & Y. Trope, 2008; N. Liberman, Y. Trope, & E. Stephan, 2007), it was predicted that politeness would be related to abstract construal, temporal distance, and spatial distance. Eight studies supported...