Politeness strategies used in Rachmania Arunita’s: Eiffel ... I’m In Love?

ABSTRACT

In daily communication, people tend to choose the strategies to have polite conversation in tile purpose of achieving their final goal by maintaining other's face. Politeness is the power-distance relationship of the interactants and the extent to which a speaker imposes on or requires something from their addressee. However, politeness phenomena can also appear in literary text such as novel dialogues since it provides the language that tells US how people are interacting each other within the novel through the portrayed characters, so the story is easy to be understood. Therefore, the researcher chooses to investigate politeness phenomena in Rachmania Arunita's 'Eiffel... I'm in Love'.

In this study, the researcher analyzes the portrayed characters' utterances that contain of the politeness strategies usage which covers the use of four politeness strategies, namely bald on record, positive politeness, negative politeness,and off record.

The descriptive qualitative method is used to conduct this research, because the aim of this research is to describe and explain the politeness phenomena in the novel "Eiffel ... I'm in Love" written by Rachmania Arunita. Besides that, this method is chosen because this research is natural-based, and it uses the researcher herself to interact with the novel text dialogues as the research instrument.

Based on the findings of the study, it is found out some strategics that arc applied by the portrayed characters in their dialogues. First, bald on record strategy which is used in the situation in which s wants to achieve the maximum efficiency of his utterance by expressing emergency, granting permission, and greeting. Second, positive politeness strategy which is used in the condition in which s tries to minimize the distance between expressing friendliness and solid interest by exaggerating H's interest, seeking agreement, avoiding disagreement, promising, including both s and H in the activity, and giving reasons. Third, negative politeness strategy which is used in the situation in which s has the main focus on assuming that he may be imposing and intruding on H’s space by the use of direct request, minimizing the imposition, apologizing, going on record as incurring a debt. Fourth, off record strategy which is used in the condition to take some pressures off of the hearer by the use of understatement, tautology, contradiction, vagueness, and over-generalizes.

Furthermore, this study can lead the next researcher to conduct research on politeness strategies in the other form of literary works such as poetry and drama in the purpose of eiiriching the pragmatic studies and analyze the other language except Indonesian, so it can broaden the knowledge in applying linguistic aspect in the various languages.