According to Bousfield and Locher 2008: 3, “Impoliteness is a behaviour that is face-
aggravating in a particular context”. It is an act which is intentionally used t
o attack someone’s face. This act usually happened when people do not have respect with others. Impoliteness will also happened if the
speaker is not obey the rule of politeness. Culpeper, Bousfield, and Wichmann 2003: 1546 state that impoliteness
is “communicative strategies designed to attack face, and thereby cause social conflict and disharmony”. Impoliteness is mostly used by people to attack
someone and to make people feel unpleasant. In using impoliteness, there are some impoliteness strategies that are applied in the utterances.
a. Impoliteness strategies
“Impoliteness strategies are ‘opposite’ in terms of orientation to face i.e. Instead of maintaining or enhancing face, they are designed to attack face”
Culpeper, Bousfield, and Wichmann, 2003: 1554. Impoliteness strategies are some strategies that are used to attack someone in the context of communication.
Culpeper here divides impoliteness strategies into five types which is bald on record impoliteness, negative impoliteness, positive impoliteness, sarcasm or
mock politeness, and withhold politeness. All of those strategies are much related to our daily utterances.
1 Bald on Record Impoliteness
Bald on record impoliteness is a strategy which is used by people to attack someone directly.
This strategy is applied in an unambiguous way. “Bald on record impoliteness is typically deployed where there is much face at stake,
and where there is an intention on the part of the speaker to attack the face of the hearer” Culpeper, 2005: 41. The example of bald on record impoliteness can be
seen in this utterance “shut up and act like a parking attendant”. In this utterance, the imperative commmand stated directly is considered as bald on record
impoliteness.
2 Positive Impoliteness
As stated by Culpeper 2005: 41, “positive impoliteness is a strategy designed to damage the addressee’s positive face wants”. This strategy is used to
get respect, to be admitted as equal as others. Ignoring others, disassociating from others, be disinterested, unconcerned, make others uncomfortable, are some of the
example of positive impoliteness. The example of positive impoliteness is found in this utterance “ I don’t care what you do”. In this utterance, the speaker do not
care about what someone do. Unconcerned about someone here is considered as positive impoliteness.
3 Negative Impoliteness
Culpeper 2005: 41 also states that negative impoliteness is “the use of
strategies designed to damage the addressee’s negative face wants”. This strategy
is used because the user wants freedom in doing something. Frightening, condescending, scorning, and ridiculing someone are the example of negative
impoliteness. The example of negative impoliteness is found in the utterance “babyish isnt it”. The term ‘babyish’ is used to express scorn at someone.
Scorning someone is considered as negative impoliteness. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
