The Politeness Strategies in Directives Speech Acts Found in Daily Conversations among Students of Senior High School of Daarul Huda in the Academic Year of 2017/2018.

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ABSTRACT

            Politeness is an essential thing in communication. It helps humans to maintain good relationships among themselves. English Department students are also expected to maintain their relations by showing politeness. However, politeness seems not important since the students did not consider their hearers.

This study aims to find out the kinds of Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategy among the Senior High School Daarul Huda and how they use those strategies in their daily conversations. In this study, I use Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategy because their rules serve as the most influential theory on politeness.

This study uses a qualitative approach. It means the writer uses the descriptive method. The subject of this study is the Senior High School Daarul Huda in the academic year 2017/2018. The source of the data is the students’ spoken expressions which the writer transcribes into conversational texts. Together with the data, the writer observes the students’ speaking classes, comes to their classes before lecturing, and goes to their boarding houses. The writer records their conversation and transcribes all the conversations the writer gets. Then, I analyze the data based on Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategy.

The result of the study is there are 166 utterances of Brown and Levinson's politeness strategy that are used by the students in their daily conversations. They are (1) a bald on-record strategy, (2) a positive politeness strategy, (3) a negative politeness strategy, (4) an off-record strategy and (5) a do not do FTA/ keep the quiet strategy. Bald on record strategy is the most strategy preferred since it is the easiest way to convey messages in communication. Yet, this strategy is not appropriate to use if the students face the elder in their communication. Come up next are the negative politeness strategy, positive politeness strategy, off-record strategy and the least is do not do FTA/ keep the quiet strategy.

The writer suggests for other researchers in the future could make more complete research about politeness. The subject of the data could be taken from all levels of English Department students, so various ways of politeness strategies could be found

Keywords: Politeness, Speech Act, Conversation, Qualitative Research