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4.2.4. Politeness
In politeness analysis, I only found 20 conversation texts which can be analyzed into politeness strategies. These findings indicate that the writers of the
English textbook only provide 20 conversation texts which perform the expression of respect among the participants. In other words I can say that only 20
conversation texts whose participants are between teacher and student. I think that they are very limited of 75 transactional and interpersonal conversation texts. It
will be better if there are about 50 conversation texts which perform the politeness strategies because student does not only interact with his her friends
but also with the people at school who need to be respected. For the strategies, there are 14 positive; 4 negative; and 2 positive and
negative politeness. From those findings, I can conclude that the writers of the English textbook want to show that the relation between student and teacher is
familiar. That is good, but I want to offer recommendation that student will need to show more negative politeness strategies when he or she takes conversation
with someone who needs respect like headmaster, or vice headmaster.
4.2.5. The Accuracy and Coherence of Transactional Conversations
In transactional conversation, accurate and coherent communications of the message that it has been understood, expliciteness and directness of meaning
are essential. Based on the analysis above, firstly for the accuracy, I think that the accuracy of the message or information which was communicated among the
participants is valid.
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The communications of the participants in the conversation texts were accurate and coherent because the degree of closeness of the messages or
informations was understood by the participants. The degree of closeness was applied in the expliciteness and directness of meaning in the transactional
conversation. The related clauses which were realized in each conversation had directed effects to the same or similar messages or informations that were
communicated by the participants. Coherence in the transactional conversations made a text meaningful. It
was especially dealt with in the text of the transactional conversations. Coherence was achieved through syntactical features such as the use of words and a logical
tense structure, as well as connected to the messages or informations in the transactional conversations. These can be seen from the examples below :
Text 1.I.3
Riko :
Hi, Shanti, my name’s Riko. Shanti
: Hello, I’m Shanti
Riko :
Nice to meet you, Shanti. Shanti
: Nice to meet you too, Rika
Text 6.I.7
Miss Ina : Good morning, students.
Students : Good morning, maam.
Miss Ina : How are you?
Students : Were fine, maam. Thank you. How are you?
Miss Ina :
Im good. Thanks. The accuracy and coherence of the both texts above can be seen from the
information whose participant in text 1.I.3. gave introductory about himself and text 6.I.7 gave greeting, then the answer of the other participant had similar or
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same message from the previous participant.The words and logical tense structure were same from both texts. They were hi and hello in the words and simple
present in their logical tense structure.
4.2.6. The Nature of Interpersonal Conversations
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