Skripsi
Politeness Analysis on the Dialogues Found in a Senior High School English Textbook ‘Look Ahead’ for the Second Grade Students
Key words : Politeness, Strategies, ‘Look Ahead’
The objective of this research is to give clear description about politeness strategies found in senior high school English textbook Look Ahead for the second grade of students. Brown & Levinson sum up human politeness behavior in four strategies: bald on record, negative politeness, positive politeness, and off-record-indirect strategy. The writer takes only two politeness strategy; there are positive politeness and negative politeness. In positive politeness the writer takes 7 (seven) strategies as a base of her research, namely : attend to hearer’s interest, needs, wants, good; exaggerate (interest, approval, sympathy with hearer); use solidarity in-group identity markers; avoid disagreement; offer or promise; be optimistic; include both speaker (S) and hearer (H) in activity. While there are five strategies of negative politeness, they are; be conventionally indirect; use hedges or questions; be pessimistic; apologize; impersonalize speaker and hearer.
This research is descriptive one. The writer applies descriptive design to describe the facts and explain it to analyze about the dialogues in English textbook Look Ahead. The subject in this research is dialogues in English textbook Look Ahead. The writer applies documentation method as a manner to collecting the data. The data that includes in positive and negative politeness are given code. The arrangement of the data is also given code from the first unit until the last unit. This research is qualitative analysis while the technique of data analysis is non-statistic technique. The writer classified the data based on positive and negative politeness; each data is analyzed by giving a clear description, reason, and analysis.
After the data has been analyzed, the writer accounts the data in percentage form. The writer found that the dominant data in this research is positive politeness in avoiding the agreement and using the solidarity-identity group markers. Each of this consists of 4 (four) data (21,05%). The conclusion of this research, the writer found many kinds of politeness strategies in English textbook Look Ahead. In positive politeness they are; attend to hearer’s interest, wants, needs, goods, exaggerate (interest, approval, sympathy, with the hearer), use solidarity in-group identity markers, avoid disagreement, offer or promise, be optimistic, include both speaker (S) and the hearer (H) in activity. While in the negative politeness the writer only found two strategies they are; be conventionally indirect and impersonalize speaker and hearer.
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