AN ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES APPLIED BY THE MEMBERS OF UKM DEBAT,THE UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU

AN ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES APPLIED BY THE MEMBERS OF UKM DEBAT,THE UNIVERSITY OF BENGKULU

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The research is aimed at finding out the politeness strategies based on Brown and Levinson politeness strategies theory that used by the members of UKM Debat, the University of Bengkulu when practice debate.The subject of this research was the members of UKM Debat, the University of Bengkulu that consist of eight students.This research was using descriptive qualitative as the methodology and the data were collected by using 355 maybelline fit me transcript from video recorder and observation sheet as the instruments.The result of data analysis shows that the debaters use all of politeness strategies but they do not used all sub strategies when practice debate, which is bald on record, positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy, and off record.

There were 28 utterances that consist of politeness strategy.The debaters mostly applied positive politeness bolia outlet gent strategy, which occurs 19 times (67,8%).Bald on record and off record occur 4 times (14,3%) and the last is negative politeness strategy which occurs 1 times (3,6%).Positive politeness strategy gets the highest position in the data because in practicing debate, all debaters have known each other and have a close relationship.