THE IMPOLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY FEMALE LODGERS IN BOARDING HOUSE INTERACTION

The objectives of the study were to find out: (1) the types of impoliteness strategies used by female lodgers in boarding house interaction, (2) the pattern of responses used by mother lodgers and lodgers in boarding house interaction, and (3) the reasons of using language impoliteness in boarding house interaction. The study was descriptive qualitative. The subject of the study was female lodgers 8-9 stay in Peratun Ujung Medan State which had been choosen randomly. The data of the study is the impolite utterances of transcripts which is recorded from the conversation in the boarding house interaction. The data were identified, analyzed and categorized based on Culpeper’s (1996, 2003), Bousfield’s (2007), and Beebe’s (1995) theory. The findings of the study showed that: 1) there were five types of impoliteness strategy found in both data of female lodgers and mother lodger namely: bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, sarcasm or mock politeness, and withhold politeness; 2) there were four patterns of responses the impoliteness, namely: single or multiple attacks with no response, single or multiple attacks and accepting the impoliteness; and 3) The use of language impoliteness in boarding house interaction used by female lodgers and mother lodger shared several same reasons, namely: to mock the others, to vent negative feelings, to show power. There were some new reasons of using the language impoliteness in the classroom interaction, namely: to show disagreement, to clarify something clearly, to show dissatisfaction, and to give advice. The most frequent reason of using impoliteness by female lodgers and mother lodger in the boarding house interaction was to mock the others and the least frequent reason was to give advice. Based on the findings, it can be concluded that overall female lodgers and mother lodger had equal chance to perform impoliteness in boarding house interaction. Some suggestions are directed to those who are interested in understanding impoliteness strategy as found in practice.