Face-Threatening Act Strategies in Morton Thompson's Novel Entitled "The Cry and The Covenant" - UDiNus Repository

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FACE.THREATENINGACT STRATEGIESIN
MORTONTHOMPSON'SNOVEL ENTITLED
..THECRY AND TI{E COVENANT''
TIIESIS
Presentedin partial fulfilknent of therequirementsfor
the completionof StrataI Programofthe
EnglishDeparftnent
specialized
in Linguistics

by
RatnaSetyawati
c11.2004.00591

FACULTY OF LANGUAGESAND LETTERS
DIAN NUSWANTOROUNTVERSITY
SEMARANG
2008

PACE Of,'AFPROVAL
This thesishasbeenapprovedby Board of Examiners.Strata 1 StudyProgramof
English Language, Faculty of Languages and Letters, Dian Nuswantoro
Universityon September
04, 2008.

Board of Examiners

tsih, M.Pd.

m, S.S.oM.Pd.

FirstAdvisor as 1'tExaminer

Secondadvisoras2"dExaminer

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Sunardi, S.S.,M.Pd.

Achmad Basari, S.S.,M.Pd.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

P A GEOFT IT L E

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P A GEOFA P P R OV A L
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ii

M OT T O

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DEDICATION...
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

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L I S TO FT A B L E S

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LIST OF FIGURE
LIST OFAPPENDICES
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ABSTRACT... ..

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CHAPTERI INTRODUCTION
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1.I Bzickground
of the Study

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1.2Statement
of theProblem

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1.3Scope
of theStudy

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l.4objectiveoftheStudy

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1.5Significance
of theStudy

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1.6Thesis
Organization
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C}IAPTERII REVIEWOFRELATEDLITERATT}RE
2.1SpeechAd...

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2.2Politeness
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2.3Face-threateningAct
Strategies

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CIIAPTER III RESEARCHMETHOD
3.1Research
Design
3 .2 l Jn rto fA n a l ysi s

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3.3Source
of Data

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3.4Technique
of Datacollection
3.5Technique

of Dataanalysis

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CHAPTERTVDATA ANALYSIS . . ...
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4.LBald-onRecord
4 .2P o si ti ve
P o l i te n e ......
ss

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4.3Negative
Politeness

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4 . 4O f f R e c o r d . . .

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4.5 TheComparison
on theCharacters,
FTA .

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CI{APTER V CONCLUSIONAND SUGGESTION
5 .1C o n cl u si o n

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5.2 Suggestion
BIBLIOGRAPHY

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APPENDIX

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ABSTRACT
This thesis is entitled Face-threatening Act Strategt in Morton
Thompson's
novelentitled 'TlteCry and the Covenant".The reasonfor choosing
'face-tlreatening
the topic
act strategy'is basedon the researcher's
cwiositv in
ana,lyzingpolitenessphenomenafrom different points of view basedon Briwn
andLevinson'sface-threatening
strategy.This thesishastwo objectives.First, it is
to know how the face-threatening
act sfategy is usedby the characters'utterances
basedon Brown and Levinson's face-threateningact itrategy. Second,it is how

the comparisonof characters'FTA in Morton ihompson's novel entitled ..The
Cry andthe'Covenanf'.
The dataof this researchare takenfrom a novel entitled 'The Cry and the
Covenant'written by Morton Thompson.In analyzing the data, the researcher
used qualitative descriptivemethod.In conductingthe research,the researcher
took soinesteps;readingthe novel carefrrlly,identifuing the data,classiSringand
simplifiing the datathat containFTAs strategies.
In this research,183 Face-threatening
actsutteranceswere found: 59 out
of 183 are Bald-on record utterances(32.2%), 57 are Positive politeness
utterances
(31.1%),35areNegativePoliteness
utterances
(lg.l%) and32areOffrecordutterances
(17.5).The Bald-onrecordstrategieshasthe highestfrequency
of useamongothers.
Among four strategies,TheresemostlyusedBald-onrecordstrategy.She
used22 out of 59 Bald-onrecordutterances
{37.3%).Shedecidedto threalln her
hearerby this strategybecauseshehashigh power differential to her hearer(her
sgns).IgnazPhilipp mostlyusedPositivePolitenessstrategies.
He used22 outof
57 PositivePolitenessutterances(36.6%).He decidedto-threatenhis hearerby
Positive Politenessstrategiesbecausethose strategiesattempt to minim ize the
threat to the hearer'spositive face. In addition, IgnazPhilipp dlso mostly used
Negative Politenessstrategies.He used lt out of 35 Ggative politeness
utterances(31.4%).He decidedto threatenhis hearerby Negativepoliteness
strategiesbecausethose strategiestried to satisfy the hearer'snegativeface by
grvingoption whetherhe would or not do the act.lgnazphilipp **try usedoff-He
recordstrategies.
He used15out of 32 off-recordutt"rarrces{qa gyr)
decided
to threatenhis hearerby Off-recordstrategiesbecausethosestrategiesuseindirect
languageand removesthe speakerfrom the potential to beinglimposing. The
factorsinfluencing the choice of strategiesare the power of thJspeakeruird tt
hearer(P), the socialdistancebetweenthe speakerandthe hearer anOthe rate
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of imposition(R).

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