THE NEGATIVE POLITENESS STRATEGIES BETWEEN FAK FAK LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH (A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS)

Abstract

This study aims to determine the differences and similarities in negative politeness between Fak Fak language and English. This research is a qualitative descriptive study with a sample of native speakers of Fak Fak language in the city of Makassar. The Analyze used in describing the two languages was contrastive Analysis by Krisdalaksana and used the negative politeness theory proposed by Brown Levinson to analyze negative politeness strategies and to find the data or sentence strategies commonly used by both languages. The results of this study indicated that there are similarities and differences in using the spoken strategy between the two languages. From the 10 existing strategies, the researcher found 5 strategies which were used as the focus of this study. Five strategies are: (1) Be Conventional Indirect, (2) Question Hedge, (3) Minimize the Imposition, (4) Give Difference, (5) Apologize.