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ABSTRACT Politeness strategy is a strategy that used by the people in order to safe and satisfy the hearers’ face (Brown and Levinson, 1987). This research is about a descriptive study of politeness strategies in Mata Najwa Talk Show. The problems of this study are what are the types of politeness strategies that found in Mata Najwa Talk Show in Trans7? and what are the dominant types of politeness strategyin Mata Najwa Talk Show in Trans7?. The objects of this study are the participants in Mata Najwa Talk show in Trans7. This research used descriptive qualitative research and aimed to find the types and the dominant politeness strategies used in Mata Najwa Talk Show. The types of politeness found in theory by Brown and Levinson (1987) namely: Bald On Record Strategy, Positive Politeness, Negative Politeness, and Off Record Strategy. The result of this research showed that all the types of the fourth strategies were used by the participants of Mata Najwa Talk Show. They are bald on record strategy, positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy, and off record strategy. From twenty-eight utterances, six utterances as bald on record (e.g. good night and see you) the utterance refers to sub-strategy welcoming and farewells. Ten utterances of them recognized as positive politeness (e.g. interesting!) This utterance is a kind of sub-strategy exaggerate (interest, approval, sympathy with H) of positive politeness. Four utterances as negative politeness (e.g. sorry what was offered for?) this utterance is a type of sub-strategy apologize. And eight utterances as off record strategy (e.g. I want to fight the flow because only died fish that swim follows the flow, hopefully everyone will be a fish that resist the flow) this utterance show the type sub-strategy use metaphoric. Therefore,positive politeness as the dominated strategy that used by the host and the guests in Mata Najwa Talk show. Key words : politeness strategy, Mata Najwa Talk Show program, Descriptive Qualitative .