Isabella, Jingga Auffana (2026) Exploring The Use of Politeness Strategies in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” (2002) to Mitigate Conflict and Misunderstanding in Interethnic Communication. Undergraduate thesis, Fakultas Ilmu Budaya.

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Abstract

The focus of this research is to explore politeness strategies among interethnic interactions
to see how language roles overcome the cultural clash that happened between the Greek
American family and the Anglo-American family conversations caused by various
contextual diversity By using the theory of politeness strategies by Brown and Levinson
(1987) and the Contextual Theory of Interethnic Communication by Young Yun Kim
(2017), this research integrated power (P), distance (D), rank of imposition (R) factors with
eight concept of Contextual theory to see the decision of politeness strategies use and the
function of politeness strategies. The result is that associative behavior of communication
can be considered as politeness strategies that mitigate conflict and maintain harmony in
interethnic communication. This leads to the use of politeness strategies, including positive
politeness, bald on record, and negative politeness, on how language can mitigate conflict
between different backgrounds and cultures. Therefore, studying politeness strategies can
give insight into how to communicate with people of different ethnicities around the world.
Keywords: Politeness strategy, Power, Distance, Rank of imposition, Interethnic
Communication, Contextual Background, My Big Fat Greek Wedding

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