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
