POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN KARONESE LANGUAGE CABUR BULUNG

The aim of this study was to find out the politeness strategies of Karonese language in pre marital party or “Cabur Bulung” party. The subjects were taken from the participants of the cabur bulung party. There are five participants involved in the party, namely kalimbubu, anak beru, the representative of kalimbubu, the representative of anak beru, and penetua adat karo. The techniques of collecting data were observing and recording the speeches of the participants in the cabur bulung party then interviewing penetua adat karo . The research observed the subject closely and interviewed them to certify the trusworthiness of this research. This study investigated the politeness strategies in Karonese language, such as the using of kinship form, the repetion, the pronoun, indirect speech, greeting, and some phrases such as uga and uga ninta. Then, the type of politeness strategies found in that party are positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy, and off record strategy. Compared to negative politeness strategy and off record strategy, positive politeness strategy is dominantly used by the speakers. The reason for applying this dominant type of politeness is caused by the speakers who are involved in that party tried to save the hearers face by getting closer to the hearer. As there is rebu or the prohibition to talk directly, the speaker tries to avoid the recklesness in the party. Thus, it minimizes the distance between speaker and hearer by getting closer each other.