Abstract
Language is a
system communication used by people to interaction with other people. But whether an interaction succeed or not depend
on the speaker and the addressee understand the meaning of their language. For those reason, the researcher want to
analyze the story titled The Wise Maiden. The purposes of this analysis are
describe about one of pragmatic theory, that is politeness. The researcher
begin this article with discussion about definition sociolinguistic and
pragmatic by many expert in that study. Then continue with definition and kinds
of politeness. This research use literature review method with qualitative
approach by using literature analysis. This story tell about an old man willing
who want make her daughter happy. Because of that he ask to the King some gold
coins, but the King not give it directly. The oldman should solve his challenge
The source of data is transcription of video
accessed from Youtube on July 9th 2019. The result of this
research, the researcher find five expressions that indicate politeness
strategy.
