TWO TYPES OF REALIZATIONS OF MAKING REFUSAL IN SUNDANESE CONTEXT : A CASE STUDY

• Main Author: Euis Rina Mulyani
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: STKIP Siliwangi 2013-10-01
• Series: Eltin Journal
• Online Access: http://e-journal.stkipsiliwangi.ac.id/index.php/eltin/article/view/52

This study was motivated by the previous research which suggests that In Indonesian context, indirectness, especially when making a refusal, is viewed as an indication of politeness. The purpose of the present study is to find out whether or not there are Indonesian (especially Sundanese ethnic) people who use indirectness with doing both saving and ‘loosing face’ their addressees when making refusal. The subjects of this study were some Sundanese people’s refusals in some natural conversations. Observation on people’s natural conversations was done in collecting data. This study employed qualitative analysis of data. The result of this study showed that the realization of making refusal in Sundanese can be grouped into two: expressed in indirectness with employing saving face only, and expressed in indirectness with employing both saving face and ‘losing face’. The two types of refusal strategies used by Sundanese people are still in Indonesian culture of politeness. KEYWORDS: Indirectness, politeness, saving face, and losing face