Significance of the Study
Besides, FTA is a way which utterance or action threatens a person’s public self image, that is the definition from Yule 1998 : 61. It is shown in the
utterance, “I’m going to tell him to stop that awful noise right now”. The example shows the way the speaker threatens her or his face to ask for the hearer
with directly expression.
b Politeness
There are many definitions of politeness. Yule 1998 : 60 explains that the concept of politeness is a strategy to perform awareness of another person’s face,
which means it is a method to reach the situation or context based on the social status or strata.
Politeness is called pragmatic mechanism focused on a variety of structures that collaborate to the speaker to gain the smooth communication. Its definition
is explained by Trosborg 1995 : 24. This concept supports the communication between the speaker and the hearer to create understanding each other.
Watts 2003 defines that politeness is not something people got when they are born but it is something to be learned and to be adopted in the society.
Then, it can be reflected in the social life since politeness is a thing that people learn step by step and there is no truth right in politeness because context and
situation are two things that influence to do politeness. Based on some terminologies of politeness from those experts, politeness
is a way to save awareness in people face, therefore it is very useful to figure out in the communication between the interlocutors. In order to do that, a certain
type of strategies is needed to be chosen.