People usually tend to use some politeness strategies in order to make the communication
process between speaker and hearer going smoothly without any sense hurting each others.
This paper is only focused on describing about Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategies.
According to Brown and Levinson, there are four politeness strategies, namely: bald on
record, positive politeness, negative politeness, and off record and fifteen substrategies of
positive politeness and ten substrategies of negative politeness. It is important that during
the communication which happens among the participants use a polite language. Being
polite to the hearer is generally more important to do than being polite toward the speaker
itself, because if the speaker uses the polite language to the hearer in fact he does not only
respect the hearer but also he maintains his own dignity
