THE IM The Impoliteness Strategies In Republican Party’s Debate Of Donald Trump.

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MOTTO
LAA ILAHA ILLALLAH MUHAMMAD-UR-RASULULLAH
ALL OF MINE IS FOR ALLAH
LAA HAWLA WA LAA QUWWATA ILLA BILLAH
SHOLAT, SHOLAT, SHOLAT, SHOLAT, SHOLAT
“NO MATTER WHAT HAPPEN TO US BEHIND, WE HAVE TO KEEP MOVING
FORWARD”
“DO NOT LOSE YOUR COURAGE NO MATTER WHAT. BECAUSE IF WE GIVE UP
THE GAME IS OVER”
“IF WE DO NOT HAVE COURAGE TO TAKE RISKS, WE CANNOT MAKE OUR
DREAMS COME TRUE”

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DEDICATION
This thesis is dedicated for Bapak and Ibuk, for my young brother and all of my big
family. This research is also dedicated for all of my Super Friends. Thanks for all of
your help and your support.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
All Praise to Allah SWA, The Lord that has opened us the doors of mercy so this
thesis can be finished. Peace be upon to Prophet Muhammad SAW, his family, his
companions and people who have been defending their faith and love doing good
deeds.
The writer would like to express his sincere gratitude to the following people :
1. Prof. Dr.H. Khudzaifah Dimyati,SH,M.Hum, the Director of Post Graduate
Program Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta.
2. Prof. Dr. Markamah,M.Hum, the Headmaster of Language Studies Program.
3. Agus Wijayanto and Mauly Halwat Hikmat, Ph.D. For giving the writer
valuable advice, suggestion and guidance to finish this thesis.

4. The writer’s parents, Purnomo and Suyatmi who always supporting to finish
this thesis.
Hopefully, Allah SWA will always bless them.Amin
5. Special thanks for my Super classmate, Bu.Sri Tilar Winarni Bu.Hayati, and
Bu.Endah , thanks for all of your motivation and your inspiration, You all are
really kindly English teacher. For Mbk.Dar, Mbk.Marlina, Mbk.Anik, Thanks
for all of your BULLIYING. And the special thanks for my Big Big Big
enemy Mbk.Anik, I will strugle to make my English skill better than you,
amin. Special thanks for Mas.Sajad, thanks for all of your help, you are really
a kind young man. Mas.Kirda, you are really a good father. Special thanks for
Mbk.Ardita, Mbk.Anggi, Mbk.Iggit, Mbk.Olip and Indisa, thanks for all of
your KANTIN KUPON you have given to me. Please forgive me for always
compeling you all to give your Kantin Kupon to me. I feel no regret did that.
Come on guys you all can finish your thisis”.
6. Special thanks for dek.Firda, dek.Irin and dek. Deby. You are really kind.
Come on dek.Deby, finish your thesis. I believe you can do that.

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7. And thanks for all of my friends mas.Zainal, mas.Yafi, Tima, mas.
Kadir,mas.Rian, Mas.Amrin, Mas.Arif. mas.Syhaid, mas. Udin, mas.Darmadi,
mas.Dika, Widi, mas.Wakid, Pak. Gadot, Pak.Alex, Pak.Yanto. Thanks for
anything.
Finally, the researcher requires constructive suggestions for the
progress of the next study. The researcher hopes this will give advantages for
other researcher.

Surakarta, 28 February 2017

Rajid Khurniawan


 

TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE.............................................................................................................................i
SUPERVISOR’S APPROVAL FORM 1......................................................................ii
SUPERVISOR’S APPROVAL FORM 2.....................................................................iii
APPROVAL.................................................................................................................iv

APPROVAL OF THESIS FOR SUBMISSION............................................................v
STATEMENT OF AUTHORSHIP..............................................................................vi
MOTTO.......................................................................................................................vii
DEDICATION...........................................................................................................viii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT............................................................................................ix
TABLE OF CONTENTS.............................................................................................xi
LIST OF TABLES......................................................................................................xiv
LIST OF APPENDICES..............................................................................................xv
ABSTRACT...............................................................................................................xvi
ABSTRAK................................................................................................................xvii
CHAPTER I.................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................1
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B.
C.
D.
E.
F.

Background of Study.........................................................................................1

Problem Statements.........................................................................................12
Objective of The Study....................................................................................13
Limitation of The Study...................................................................................13
Significance of The Study...............................................................................13
Research Paper Organization...........................................................................14

CHAPTER II..............................................................................................................16
LITERATURE REVIEW.........................................................................................16

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A. Previews Research...........................................................................................16
B. Underlying Theory...........................................................................................37
1. The Notion of Pragmatic...........................................................................37
2. The Notion of Face....................................................................................40
3. The Notion of Politeness...........................................................................47
4. The Criticism of Brown and Levinson’s theory........................................49
5. Impoliteness...............................................................................................51
6. Culpeper’s Impoliteness Strategies............................................................55

CHAPTER III............................................................................................................59
RESEARCH METHOD............................................................................................59
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B.
C.
D.
E.
F.
G.

Research Type.................................................................................................59
Object of The Research...................................................................................59
Subject of The Research..................................................................................59
Data and Data Source......................................................................................60
Technique of Collecting Data..........................................................................60
Credibility of Data...........................................................................................61
Technique for Analyzing Data.........................................................................61

CHAPTWR IV...........................................................................................................62
DATA ANALYSIS, FINDINGS AND DISCUSSION............................................62

A. Data Analysis...................................................................................................62
1. The analysis of data...................................................................................62
2. The dominand impoliteness used by Donald Trump...............................120
B. Research Findings..........................................................................................124
C. Discussion of the findings ............................................................................126
CHAPTER V............................................................................................................141
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION...................................................................141
A. Conclusion.....................................................................................................141
B. The Prdogogical Implication.........................................................................144
C. Suggestion.....................................................................................................145
1. Practical Benefit......................................................................................145
2. Theorical Benefit.....................................................................................146

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BIBIOGRAPHY................................................................................................149
APPENDICES....................................................................................................153

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LIST OF TABLE
Table 1.1 Trump’s impoliteness attack to his politic competitors.
Grapic 1.2 Trump’s impoliteness attack to his politic competitors.
Grapic 1.3 The total of Trumps’impoliteness attack in generally

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LIST OF APPENDICES
Appendix I The resul of turnitin test.........................................................................153
Appendix I Original Manuscript................................................................................154

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ABSTRACT
RAJID KHURNIAWAN. S200150033. 2017. The Impoliteness Strategies in
Republican Party’s debate of Donald Trump. Thesis. Magister of Language
Study. Faculty of Language Department Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta.
Donald Trump is a US politician that has been successful using impoliteness
strategies as a deadly weapon to win in US presidential debate. This research tried to
investigate the impoliteness strategies used by Donald Trump and the strategies most
frequently used by Donald Trump in GOP Debate Republican President Election at
Detroit when he faced Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Ted Cruz and Governor John
Kasich. This research used descriptive qualitative as a method to cultivate the data.
The researcher used impoliteness strategies from Culpeper(1996) to investigate
Trump’s impoliteness in GOP debate. The research findngs are as follows. There are
frour impoliteness strategies used by Trump.They are bald on record, positive
impoliteness, negative impoliteness and sarcasm. The total impoliteness strategies
found is 100 data. Senator Marco Rubio is a candidate in debate stage that got the
most frequently attack by Donald Trump. He was attacked by violating of the
structure of conversation (17) data, condescend (2) data, ridicule (12) data, bald on
record (1) data, call the other name (4) data, denied (6) data, disassociate from the
other (4) data, use inappropriate identity markers (4) data and seek disagreement (5)
data. The total, Trump attacked Senator Marco Rubio (55) time. It means 55% from
the total of Trump’s attack. From the data above it can be concluded that the
impoliteness strategies used by Donald Trump in generally is as follows. There were (
4) data 4%of bald on record. That was (1) data 1% of sarcasm. The positive
impoliteness found consists of be disinterested (1) data 1%, disassociate from the
other (8 ) data 8%, use inappropriate identity markers (5) data 5%, seek disagreement
(5 ) data 5%, call the other name ( 6) data 6%, exclude the other from an activity (1)
data 1%, denied (9) data 9%, and exclude the other from an activity (1) data 1%. The
Total number of positive impoliteness found was (30) data 30%. The negative
impoliteness that were found consist of ridicule (28)data 28%, explicitly associate the
other with a negative aspect (1) data 1%, violate the structure of conversation (25)
data 25%, condescend (3) data 3%, frighten (2) data 2%, be little (1) data 1%. The
total number of negative impoliteness found is (60) data 60%. That was sarcasm 1
data 1%. The total impoliteness strategies found were (100) data 100%.The most
frequently strategies used by Donald Trump is negative impoliteness.
Key words: impoliteness strategies, Republican Party, Donald Trump

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ABSTRAK
RAJID KHURNIAWAN. S200150033. 2017. The Impoliteness Strategies in
Republican Party’s debate of Donald Trump. Thesis. Magister Pengkajian Bahasa
Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta.
Donal Trump adalah seorang politisi Amerika yang berhasil menggunakan
teori ketidaksantunan sebagai sebuah senjata mematikan untuk memenangkan debat
Presiden Amerika. Penelitian ini berusaha untuk meneliti jenis-jenis teori
ketidaksantunan yang digunakan oleh Donald Trump dan jenis teori ketidak santunan
yang paling sering digunakan oleh Donald Trump dalam debate Partai Republik di
kota Detroit ketika Trump berhadapan dengan Senator Marco Rubio, Senator Ted
Cruz dan Gubernur Jhon Kasick. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode diskriptif
kualitatif. Dan peneliti menggunakan teori ketidaksantunan dari Culpeper (1996)
untuk menganalisa ketidaksantunan yang dibuat oleh Donald Trump di debat GOP.
Hasil penelitian yang telah ditemukan antara lain adalah sebagai berikut.
Berdasarkan analisa data, sada empat setrategi ketidaksantunan yang dipakai yaitu
bald on record, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness and sarcasm. Jumlah
keseluruhan teori ketidaksantunan yang ditemukan adalah 100 data. Senator Marco
Rubio adalah kandidat yang paling banyak mendapatkan serangan personal dari
Donald Trump. Dia di serang dengan menggunakan violate the structure of
conversation (17) data, condescend (2) data, ridicule (12) data, bald on record (1)
data, call the other name (4) data, denied (6) data, disassociate from the other (4) data,
use inappropriate identity markers (4) data and seek disagreement (5) data. Secara
keseluruhan, Trump menyerang Senator Marco Rubio (55) kali. Itu berarti 55% dari
jumlah keseluruhan serangan Trump. Dari data diatas bisa disimpulkan bahwa secara
umum strategi ketidaksantunan yang dipakai adalah sebagai berikut. Disana ada( 4)
data 4%of bald on record, (1) data 1% sarcasm. Positive impoliteness yang ditemukan
adalah be disinterested (1) data 1%, disassociate from the other (8 ) data 8%, use
inappropriate identity markers (5) data 5%, seek disagreement (5 ) data 5%, call the
other name ( 6) data 6%, exclude the other from an activity (1) data 1%, denied (9)
data 9%, dan exclude the other from an activity (1) data 1%. Jumlah
keseluruhanpositive impoliteness (30) data 30%. Negative impoliteness yang
ditemukan adalah ridicule (28)data 28%, explicitly associate the other with a negative
aspect (1) data 1%, violate the structure of conversation (25) data 25%, condescend
(3) data 3%, frighten (2) data 2%, be little (1) data 1%. Jumlah keseluruhan negative
impoliteness adalah (60) data 60%. Disana ada Sarcasm 1 data 1%. Jumlah total teori
ketidaksantunan yang ditemukan adalah (100) data 100%. Teori ketidaksantunan
yang paling sering digunakan oleh Donald Trump adalah negative impolitenes.
Kata kunci : Strategi ketidaksantunan, Partai Republik, Donald Trump

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