Relative Power Off Record Payoffs
78 situation in which Steve asks Gretta to sing her original song on the stage. The
conversation is illustrated in dialogue 21.
Dialogue 21 Setting
: At the Café. Situation
: Steve is doing his performance and he asks Gretta to sing her song on the stage.
Participants : Steve and Gretta
Steve : “…….. Gretta, would you come up here, please? Uh, just give me
a moment. I think it would be a good idea if you‟d come up and sing one of your songs.
” NP Gretta
: “It would be a really fucking bad idea.” Steve knows that Gretta is a great singer and song writer that is why he
asks Gretta to come up to the stage and to sing her own song. Since the underlined utterance is expressed in front of the people and it aimed to ask Gretta to come up
on the stage, Steve applies negative politeness strategy. Steve applies negative politeness because the language used in negative politeness strategy tends to be
more polite. Therefore, through the more polite language, the big desire can be easier to be conveyed. Moreover, using polite language through negative
politeness indicates that the speaker possesses serious and big desire that need to be fulfilled.
The ranking of imposition for positive face can be identified through the measurement of the threat given to the hearer‟s face. The strategy which can
satisfy the hearer‟s positive face is positive politeness. Positive politeness strategy allows the speaker to have a closer relationship with the hearer. Therefore, the
possible threat which is addressed to the hearer‟s positive face will be the actions or utterances which can put the social distance to the hearer. Giving compliment
79 to the hearer is one of the examples where the speaker does not want to give threat
to the hearer‟s positive face. This means that the speaker wants to maintain the speaker‟s positive face. The situation of the ranking of imposition for positive face
is illustrated in dialogue 22.
Dialogue 22 Setting
: At the Café. Situation
: Dan gives compliment for Gretta in order to make her interested in producing the music.
Participants : Dan and Gretta Dan
: “You just need to work on your performance a bit.” Gretta
: “I‟m not a performer, I write songs from time to time.” Dan
: “Are all the songs as good as that one?” PP
Gretta :
“Are you really an AR man? You look more like a homeless man.
” The ranking of imposition which is add
ressed to the hearer‟s positive face is done in order to make the hearer want or does not want to do something. The
underlined utterance above is expressed in order to satisfy the Gretta ‟s positive
face in which Dan admires Gretta. Moreover, the underlined utterance is expressed in order to make Gretta interested in working with Dan to produce the
music. Therefore, in order to make the hearer do or do not do something, the speaker will satisfy the hearer‟s positive face. The rank of imposition for positive
face can be determined through the face threatening acts given to the hearer. The bigger the face threatening acts given to the hearer, the bigger desire aimed to be
conveyed by the speaker. In conclusion, the ranking of imposition can be identified through the
hearer‟s negative and positive face. In negative face, there are two scales of rank of imposition namely, the imposition of services and that of goods. If the speaker
80 has a big desire to be conveyed, he will choose either negative politeness strategy
or off record strategy. On the other hand, in positive politeness, the ranking of imposition is measured based on the amount of the threat given to the hearer‟s
positive face. The positive politeness strategy is chosen by the characters because it deals with the
hearer‟s positive face. This can be proven because most utterances performed by the four characters aim to avoid giving the threat to the
hearer‟s positive face. Therefore, it can be concluded that the bigger the desire of the speaker is, the more polite strategy that will be applied for the communication.
In addition, the bigger threat given to the hearer means the bigger desire aimed to be conveyed by the speaker.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This section consists of two parts, namely conclusions and recommendations.
Conclusions present
the summary
of this
study. Recommendations present some suggestions addressed to the future researchers,
language learners, and teacherslecturers.