Face threatening act strategies used in Ray Lawrence’s novel “Follow that Cab”

Erlina, Erlina (2014) Face threatening act strategies used in Ray Lawrence’s novel “Follow that Cab”. [ Skripsi ]

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Key words: Face Threatening act, Pragmatics, Novel Politeness is important to learn because every people use it. People use a strategy to make the hearers or speakers feel comfortable to communicate. In conducting communication the speaker should consider the attitude whom we are speaking with. By using politeness people can express what they want to express to others then the problem will reduce. This research limits only into bald and off record strategies Brown and Levinson. The research problem focuses on the conversation between the characters in Ray Lawrence’s novel “Follow that Cab” while the specific research problem are (1) What are face threatening acts strategies used in Ray Lawrence’s novel “Follow that Cab”? (2) What are the frequency face threatening acts strategies used in Ray Lawrence’s novel “Follow that Cab”? The general objectives of this study is to describe the politeness strategies in the conversation, while the specific objectives are (1) To find out face threatening acts strategies used in Ray Lawrence’s novel “Follow that Cab” (2) To find out the frequency face threatening acts strategies used in Ray Lawrence’s novel “Follow that Cab”. The research design of this study is quantitative survey approach. The data collecting method is documentation method. The population and samples are the utterances fragments occur in the novel written by Ray Lawrence. The data collection is done in some steps; the first the researcher reduced the data, then prepares list of face threatening acts strategies, and then analyze data based theory of Brown and Levinson. The result of survey showed that the characters in the Ray Lawrence novel used bald on record strategies and off record strategies in their conversations. In this novel the researcher found 95 utterances that used bald on record strategies counted 52 using maximum efficiency, 32 using metaphorical urgency and 11 imploring H to care S. Then in off record strategies the researcher found 105 utterances of off record strategies; counted that 2 utterances using association clues , 16 utterances using presuppose, 6 utterances using overstate, 46 utterances using tautologies, 3 utterances using contradiction, 2 utterances using metaphors and 3 utterances using rhetorical question and 28 utterances using vague. viii The result of survey research also showed the frequency of the use of bald on record strategies of maximum efficiency were 54.8%, use metaphorical urgency were 33.8 % and then use imploring H to care S were 11.6%. Then in off record strategies the frequency of the data were give association clues were 1.9%, presuppose were 14,2%, overstate were 5.8%, tautologies were 48.8% , contradiction were 2.8%, metaphors were 1.9% and use rhetorical question were 2.8% and then the use of vague were 26.6%.

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