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

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CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
Conclusion
From the analysisof the data,it can be conciudedthat the charactersin
rton Thompson'snovel entitled "The Cry and he covenant" used various
e-threateningActs strategies(Brown andLevinson)to conveytheir intentions.
Therewere 183FTA utterances
foundin thenovel.Theywereconsistingof 59
Bald-on record utterances,57 positive politenessutterances,35 Negative
Politenessutterances,
and32 Off-recordutterances.
There were 59 bald-onrecord utterancesfound in the novel. The highest
intensityuserwas Therese,shemade22bald-onrecordutterances
or 37.3o/o
of ali the bald-onrecordutterances.
Shewasvastlysuperiorin powerto her
hearer(her children).so she did the FTA with maximumefficiencvmore
than she wantedto satisfy the hearer'sface. In contrast,one of the lowest
intensity users of bard-onrecord strategieswas Dr. skoda.
Most of his
hearerswere his friendswho also doctorso he nevermade

bald-onrecord
utterances
because
this strategyis identicallywith rudeorders.
Therewere 5T positivepolitenessutterances
from 15 strategies.
The highest
intensityuserwas rgnzphilipp, hemade22 positiveporiteness
utterances
or
36.6%of all the positivepolitenessutterances.
He chosepositivepoliteness
in which these strategiesattemptedto minimize the
threat to the hearer,s
positive face. In contrast,one of the lowest intensity
userswas Mr. Albers

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becausemost of his hearerswerehis students
who

had low powerthan him

so he shouldnot maintainhis hearer,sface.
]) Therewere 35 negativepoliteness
utterancesfrom ge strategies.The highest
intensityuserwas rgruphilipp, he
maden negativeporiteness
Btterances
or
31,4o/o
of all the negativeporiteness
utterances.
He madenegativepoliteness
utterancesbecauseby this strategieshis
utteranceslvere more awkwardin a
hope that the hearermore likely to do

the act becausehis utterancesshowed
respectfor his ability to maintainthe
speaker'sface. In contrast,one of the
lowest intcrisity users was Therese
beause most of her hearer uas her
children.
I Therewere32 ofirecsrd utterancesfrom l3e
strategies.The higlest intensity
userwasrgnazphiripp,he made15oGrecord
utteranc
es or 46,9yoofail the
off-record utterances.He gave his hearer
hinls and hop that they interpret
what Ignaz Philipp reaily meansto
say. In contrast,one of the lowest
intensityuserswasDr' Krein.He never
madeoff-recordutterancebecause
as
the director of the hospitalhe had high power
differentiarthat madehim

neverrnakeutterances
with leastthreaten.

Suggestion
To get moreunderstanding
in Face-tl'eatening
Acts strategies,
the readers
tld be more criticar in studyingLiterature
and pragmatics.Besidesgetting
sureon it, they shouldpayattention
to the languageitserfandshouldconduct
er research,
especiallyFace-threatening
Acts in a morecomprehensive
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