Significances of the Study

CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

5.1 Conclusions

The study concerned on politeness strategies used by Javanese male and female buyers to send request toward the seller and how the politeness strategies differently used by different gender and imply in Javanese Indirect Speech Acts. Based on the analysis, the conclusions were stated as the following: 1 Not all politeness strategies were used by male and female buyers to send request toward the seller. The strategies used were bald-on record strategy, positive politeness strategy and negative politeness strategy. 2 The most dominant type of politeness strategies used by different gender was not similar. Male buyers dominantly used bald-on record strategy while female buyers dominantly used positive politeness strategy. Male buyers dominantly used bald-on record strategy because they wanted to make short conversation and to make the information sent clearly, they wanted the seller get the point of what they talked about directly, so that there was no misunderstanding among them. Female buyers dominantly used positive politeness strategy in expressing request as an attempt to make the seller feel much respected, avoid conflict, or to maintain social harmony and solidarity by establishing rapport to the seller . 3 The using of some Javanese Indirect speech acts by female buyers showed that politeness strategies by different gender imply in the culture of of “indirectness” in Javanese culture which was aimed to maintain social harmony by minimizing FTA.

5.2. Suggestions

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