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Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategy namely positive politeness and negative politeness strategy.
2. The researcher classified the categorized data based on the sub strategies: 15 strategies of positive politeness and 10 strategies of negative politeness.
3. The researcher analyzed the factors which influence the characters to deliver a certain politeness strategy based on Brown and Levinson’s
category: payoff and relevant circumstances. 4. The researcher drew a conclusion based on the collected data.
F. Data Trustworthiness
In order to gain the trustworthiness, the researcher applied triangulation of the data. According to Denzin in Jensen and Jankowski, 2002:62 triangulation is
a multiple method approach used to check the relevance of the research. In this research, the researcher applied two types of triangulation: theoretical
triangulation and investigator triangulation. The researcher used the theory of politeness strategies and the factors of choosing a certain politeness strategy
proposed by Brown and Levinson. Besides, the researcher also consulted the research to her supervisors. In addition, the researcher also discussed the data with
her peer reviewers to ensure the reliability of the data.
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CHAPTER IV FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter consists of two sections: findings and discussion. The findings section presents the occurrence of refusals which contain positive and
negative politeness strategies in Boyhood in and the factors that influence a speaker in choosing a certain politeness strategy. Meanwhile, the discussion
section presents the description and the explanation of these two findings in detail.
A. Findings
Based on Brown and Levinson in Goody, 1978: 102, positive politeness has 15 strategies. Those strategies are noticing and attending to the hearer,
exaggerating, seeking agreement, avoiding disagreement, presupposing raisingasserting common ground, joking, asserting or presupposing speaker’s
knowledge of and concerns for hearer’s wants, offering and promising, being optimistic, including both speaker and hearer in the activity, giving or asking for
reasons, assuming or asserting reciprocity, and giving gifts to hearer. On the other hand, negative politeness has 10 strategies namely being
conventionally indirect, questioning and hedging, being pessimistic, minimizing the imposition, giving deference, apologizing, impersonalizing the speaker and the
hearer, stating the face threatening act as general rule, nominalizing, and going on record as incurring a debt or as not indebting the hearer.
