POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY GEORGE MILTON IN JOHN STEINBECK’S OF MICE AND MEN

YUNI MURLIATI, NIM. 09150076 (2013) POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY GEORGE MILTON IN JOHN STEINBECK’S OF MICE AND MEN. Skripsi thesis, UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA.

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Abstract

Politeness is behaving in a way that attempts to take into account the feelings of the people being addressed. It is one of important subject matters in a communication. Besides, it is also a universal matter. This relates to the social and cultural values of the community. Politeness strategies in communication also become an important thing in Islamic precept. Based on these importance of politeness in a communication, the writer intends to describe how politeness strategies are used in a novel by John Steinbeck entitled Of Mice and Men. This novel becomes controversial issue in education fields. There is an assumption that this novel offers many profanities that are considered as impolite. Thus, this research aims to describe how politeness strategies are used by George Milton, the main character, in John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men through his directive utterances (commands, requests, and suggestions) and to elaborate the reasons why certain strategies are used. This research is a qualitative research that analyzes the data descriptively. The source of the data is John Steinbeck’s novel entitled Of Mice and Men. The data are limited to the directive utterances of the main character, George Milton. The technique used in collecting data is documentation. The data are analyzed by using Brown and Levinson’s theory of politeness strategy. The result of the analysis shows that George Milton gives commands more than requests and suggestions. There are 35 commands, 20 requests, and 5 suggestions. The usage of politeness strategies by George Milton varies. He tends to apply bald on record strategy in giving commands. However, in requesting and suggesting, he mostly uses positive and negative politeness strategies. The choices of certain strategies are influenced by George’s consideration for the addressees’ face, and the influences of the context of the situation and the addressees’ condition. Key words: politeness strategy, command, request, suggestion, utterance

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