Politeness Strategy of Request In Traditional Market

This study aimed at analyzing the kind of politeness strategy in request which
represented in traditional market in Marelan. The descriptive qualitative method
used to gain findings of the data itself. From that findings, 59 requests from 7
speakers has been analyzed. In this study, there were 59 utterances spoken in
traditional market. From those 11 utterances, 59 requests filtered. The
catergorization of that 59 requests limited to Bald-on record (32) and Positive
Politeness (11). %). Later on, the positive politeness was the dominant type of
politeness since the traditional market was a full of bargaining, the using of positive
politeness would be found in many ways. The instrument of this study was
recording the event and transcribing them into list. And from that list, the
categorization would be easy to exctract the data. Thus the writer found that positive
politeness that used also similar to another local traditional market.