POLITENESS AND REQUEST STRATEGIES IN ACT OF REQUEST BY EFL STUDENTS

Abstract

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui strategi meminta dan kesantunan yang muncul dalam tindak tutur meminta. Penelitian ini menggunakan role play sebagai media untuk mendapatkan data. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan ada 17 ujaran yang termasuk ke dalam tindak tutur meminta. Berdasarkan strategi tindak tutur meminta, satu ujaran (5,9%) termasuk ke dalam strategi memberikan isyarat, stategi pernyataan saran, pernyataan akan kebutuhan dan pernyataan akan kewajiban, empat ujaran (23,5%) termasuk ke dalam mempertanyakan kemampuan dan kesediaan pendengar dan meminta izin, dan lima ujaran 29,4%) termasuk ke dalam strategi perintah. Berdasarkan strategi kesantunan, tiga ujaran (17,6%) termasuk ke dalam strategi bald on-record dan strategi positive politeness, sepuluh ujaran (58,8%) termasuk ke dalam strategi negative politeness dan satu ujaran (5,9%) termasuk ke dalam strategi off-record. Hal ini menunjukkan bahwa kecenderungan strategi meminta adalah dalam bentuk perintah. Sementara itu, strategi kesantunan cenderung muncul dalam bentuk strategi negative politeness.

This research was to find out request and politeness strategy in EFL interaction. This research employed role play in data elicitation technique in collecting the data. The result showed that there were 17 utterances contained request and politeness strategies were used by participants. Based on request strategy one utterance (5.9%) belonged to hint strategy, statements of need, obligation and suggestory formulae, four utterances (23.5%) belonged to questioning listeners ability and willingness and asking for permission and five utterances (29.4%) belonged to imperative strategy. Based on politeness strategy, there were three utterances (17.6%) belonged to bald on record and positive politeness strategy, ten utterances (58.9%) belonged to negative politeness and one utterance (5.9%) belonged to off record strategy. It showed that the tendency of the request strategy was in the form of imperative strategies. Meanwhile, the politeness strategy tended to appear in the form of negative politeness strategies.

Keywords: acts of request, politeness strategy, request strategy