Deva Indriani , 2201407217 (2011) The Realization Strategies of Refusals Used by Undergraduate Students of the English Department of State University of Semarang. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Refusing a request is considered as one of the face- threatening acts (FTAs), especially to the positive-face. Therefore, in doing the refusal, people should be aware of the strategies used in order to lower the threat as well as to have smooth interaction. Moreover, there are social factors such as age, sex, social status and social distance, which most likely influence the way people refuse the request. These factors would affect people in choosing which strategies considered as the most appropriate ones to be used in a certain situation. However, the strategies chosen in the refusal might be different from one to another. The study aimed at finding out the most frequently strategies of refusals used by senior students of the English Department of State University of Semarang. The data was taken by using elicitation prompts from ten undergraduate students of the English Department of State University of Semarang. Brown and Levinson’s framework was employed to analyze the data. Based on the data analysis, I found that undergraduate students of the English Department of State University of Semarang chose positive opinion/ well wishing as the most frequently used strategy of refusal. There was other dominant strategies, that was refusal by giving suggestion, comment, and choices, reason/ explanation, direct refusal, thanking for refusing, expression of regret/ sorrow, criticism, promise of future acceptance, mitigated, and token agreement/ acceptance. The finding suggested that we should increase the awareness of the politeness aspect especially in conveying refusal for the betterment of communicative competence as the goal of language learning.

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