Politeness Strategy in Suggestions Employed by Male and Female Characters in the Novel Entitled "Can You Keep A Secret?".

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POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN SUGGESTIONS EMPLOYED

BY MALE AND FEMALE CHARACTERS IN THE NOVEL

ENTITLED

“

CAN YOU KEEP A SECRET?

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(Pragmatics Approach)

THESIS

Submitted as a Partial Fulfilment of Requirements for The Sarjana Sastra Degree in English Department

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PRONOUNCEMENT

I state this pronouncement truthfully that this thesis entitled “Politeness Strategies in Suggestions Employed by Male and Female Characters in the Novel Entitled “Can You Keep A Secret?” is originally written by myself, as the researcher. It is

no way a plagiarism. The previous works which are related to this thesis are all written in the form of quotations and included in the bibliography. If later, this pronouncement is proved incorrect, I as the researcher am ready to take responsibility, including the withdrawal of my degree.

Surakarta, June 2016

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v MOTTO

Because there is nothing more beautiful than the way the

ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how

many times it sent away.

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this thesis whole-heartedly, to:

Siswantyo Ali Jatmiko

My father, my mentor, my teacher, my coach, my idol, my hero, my family’s

leader, my mom’s best friend, and by far the coolest guy I have ever known.

to my mom, Endang and my little sister, Anna

for their love, support, patience, their technical help, their encouragement

and for always being there for me.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The process of writing this thesis has been long, but also very rewarding. Even though I stand as the author of this work, I could not have done it alone. I am very grateful for the help I have received along the way. I would like to express my sincere appreciation and gratitude to:

1. Prof. Drs. Riyadi Santosa, M.Ed., Ph.D, as the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Sebelas Maret University for approving this thesis.

2. Drs. Agus Hari Wibowo, M.A, PhD, the Head of English Department, for the permission to write thesis.

3. Prof. Dr. Djatmika, M.A., as my supervisor, for his endless support, patience and encouragement throughout the completion of this thesis. In addition to being my supervisor, he was the one who sparked my interest for pragmatic studies through one of his lecture series. You are the best, Sir!

4. All of the lecturers who have educated me during my study at Sebelas Maret University, for the priceless knowledge, inspirational story, and infinite experiences that they have shared to me.

5. My beloved parents and sister for their abundant love, support, patience, prayers, encouragement and everything they have given to me. I am highly in your debt. My papa, Helmut Schumacher also deserves thanks for always advancing me in knowledge.

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7. My pure-gem friends in matriculation class; especially Nia Indah, Luluk Rifah and Isna Fataya for their effort to keep me on my feet. You always take care of me and help me around. Thank you for being there for me through every thick and thin, up and down. It would not have been the same without you.

8. My special friends; Joona Lehtola, for the knowledge; Fandy Perbawajaya, Yunita Murpratiwi and Tamika Wrona for always encouraging and supporting me. You all always entertain me when I am bored and cheer me up when I am really sad. Thank you for the friendship you have given to me.

9. All of my classmates throughout the Linguistics Program who have studied with me and helped to make the last three years such an enjoyable and rewarding study journey.

10. Everyone who participated to make this thesis possible, those who make me laugh and those who support and advise me.

I highly appreciate all the help you have given.

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Keep A Secret?” (Pragmatics Approach). Thesis: English Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Sebelas Maret University. This research was conducted to describe the type of suggestions used by male and female characters in the novel Can You Keep A Secret? It was also executed to analyze the politeness strategies employed by the characters in making suggestions. This study was also carried out to find out the factors influencing the differences of suggestions issued by male and female characters.

This research uses Pragmatics approach, focusing on suggestions as the object of the analysis. This research applies descriptive qualitative research which takes purposive sampling technique. The data are taken from the dialogues containing suggestions uttered by both male and female characters. There are 32 data which are analyzed.

This study gains three findings. The first finding shows that there are three types of suggestions presenting in the data, they are direct suggestion, conventionalized form of suggestion and the last is indirect suggestion. All the direct suggestions are issued by female characters, while conventionalized form of suggestions are mostly employed by female characters. Surprisingly, indirect suggestions are mostly spoken by male characters in the novel.

Second, in terms of politeness strategy, the research shows that all of the direct suggestions always employ bald on record. On contrast, the indirect suggestions can never use bald on record strategy. While the other type, suggestions in conventionalized form are mostly loaded with bald on record, but can be occasionally loaded with another politeness strategy, such as positive politeness.

Finally, the last finding shows that although gender is not a significant factor, but gender may influence the choice of suggestions. Other factors which influence the choice of suggestions are power, social distance and the size of imposition.