POLITENESS IN ADDRESSING TERMS OF TOBA BATAK TEENAGERS

This research deals with the politeness in addressing used by Toba Batak teenagers. The objectives of the study are to find out the use of addressing terms and describe the types of politeness addressing terms Toba Batak teenagers. This research was conducted by using qualitative descriptive method. The data was collected from the text of recording transcription from Toba Batak teenagers. The subjects were ten Batak Toba teenagers in Hutaraja, Kecamatan Sipoholon, 24 April – 25 May 2014. The findings of the thesis show that the Toba Batak teenagers uses address terms in two ways they are single addressing and double addressing. Single addressing terms are to show politeness for intimacy purposes while double addressing is to emphasize that the speaker respect and make the conversation fell comfortable. The Toba Batak teenager uses the types of politeness namely positive politeness for person that we have intimate relation with the speaker, negative politeness for non intimate relation to show respect.