FACE THREATENING ACT OF DIFFERENT ETHNIC SPEAKERS IN COMMUNICATIVE EVENTS OF SCHOOL CONTEXT

This research dealt with Face Threatening Act by the different ethnic speakers in
communicative event of school context. The aims of this study were (1) to
describe the face threatening acts are commonly performed by the different ethnic
speakers in communicative events of school context. (2) to describe the face
threatening acts are commonly performed by the different ethnic speakers in
communicative events of school context. (3) to describe the reasons why the way
it does. The source of data of this study were utterances of Bataknese and
Javanese speakers. The data were collected through documentary technique and
the instrument was the documentary sheet. The technique of data analysiswas
descriptive. The findings of thus study revealed that: (1) There were 2 types of
face threatening act, they are negative face and positive face. The most types of
face threatening acts are performed by the different ethnic speakers is Positive
Face within 46 times from 81 utterances consist of sentences were disagreement,
contradiction, agreement, and apology in their conversations. (2) The ways of
face threatening act was based on the interactions of the teachers, employees, and
students in a certain conversations in school environment. The dominant type of
FTA in negative face were expression of thanks, acceptance of compliments, and
acceptance of thanks, offers and compliments. And the dominant type in positive
face was apologize. It is indicated in the need for mutual relationships, to be
accepted as members of the same purpose who has freedom of actions and
unencumbered on solidarity and level of equality despite between Bataknese and
Javanese have their own way to talk to their partners in this research. (3) Between
the teachers, employees and the students, there are reasons of using Face
Threatening Act: request, suggestion, warning, disagreement and apology. These
reasons explain why the FTA does. All the reasons mostly influenced of face
threatening act were the context of the situations (relationship between the
different ethnic speaker).