FACE THREATENING ACTSTRATEGIES USED INRAY LAWRENCE’S NOVEL “FOLLOW THAT CAB”
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
One of the aims of learning English as a foreign language is to be able to communicate. In conducting communication human should be polite to other people. Here the conduct communication politely speakers should use the politeness strategy. Politeness strategy is a matter of human to communicate each other. Human communication uses a method to make the hearers or speakers feel comfortable to communicate. In conducting communication the speaker should know the attitude who we are speaking with.
This research has purpose to discuss about using face threatening acts strategies in daily communication based Brown and Levinson in order to enter into social relationships, we have to acknowledge and show awareness of the face, and human needs to satisfy with addressee. Here, if we can’t satisfy so, we do face threatening acts or FTA. In other words, face refers to other human’s desire. There are two varieties of face; positive face and negative face. Positive face is the desire to have what we want to be admired by others and negative face is our wish not to be imposed on by others.
While Goffman states that positive face and negative face, positive face is the need to be appreciated and negative face is the need not to be disturbed. Renkema (1993:13) further mentions that negative face is
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