Face Threatening Act FTA

Lakof cited in Coates, 1986 also writes the examples of male and female in using exclamations: “ a “Oh dear, you’ve put the peanut butter in the refrigerator again.” b “Shit, you’ve put the peanut butter in the refrigerator again.” It is safe to predict that people would classify the first sentence as part of “women’s language”, the second as “men’s language”.” Lakoff 1975:10 Not only verbal behavior that makes them different but also non-verbal behavior. As stated in Sociolinguistics by Hudson, 1996: 134 “….many kinds of behavior as well as speech for example, eye- movements, all of which are coordinated with split-second timing and reacted to with great accuracy by other participants”. Males and females often use their gestures to indicate their politeness, such as reclining their body, bowing a head with a litle small or bending ther back. Males and females often use these gestures when they meet lecturers in campus or someone else of a higher social status. Moreover, they have some diferent gestures when they interact each other. Females tend to look at other person directly, facing them with their head and eyes facing, display smile and head nodding when listening. On the other hand, males tend to lay their head to the side and divert their eyes when listening. Besides, they use fewer facial expressions and fewer reactions than females do.

2.2.1.1 Face Threatening Act FTA

Politeness is the important word and life choice, in order to show kindness and warmth to other people, and to help them feel comfortable and welcome. Politeness is the way to make social connections run smoothly. In order to produce an utterance politely based on politeness strategies, a speaker must know whether his utterance will threat the listener’s face or not. The act of threatening someone’s face is called face threatening act. http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id http:digilib.unej.ac.id According to Aminullah in his thesis entitled A Comparative Study of Javanese and Madurese Dialect in Showing Politeness Performed By 2007 English Department Students Faculty of Letters Jember University. He mentions that Brown and Levinson 1987 explain that there are several factors which determine the seriousness of face threatening acts. The first is seeing the relative power P between the speaker and the listener, the second is the social distance D between the speaker and the listener, and the last is the rank of imposition R in doing the face threatening act.

2.2.1.2 Politeness Strategies