POLITENESS STRATEGIES OF THE KARONESE FAMILIES IN DELITUA

This research studies about politeness strategies of the Karonese Families in Deli Tua. The objectives of this study are: (1) to describe types of politeness strategies, (2) the process of expressing politeness strategies, and (3) factors that cause the Karonese families use those types of politeness strategies. The data were taken from the Karonese families. This study employs qualitative research design. The subjects were 3 Karonese families who live in Deli Tua. The subjects were divided into two groups; 3 subjects from parents group and 3 subjects from children group. The instruments used to gain the data were observation and interview. There are two ways relationships that were observed; first interaction parent to parent, and second interaction parent to child. The data were analyzed by using data reduction, data display and conclusion drawing/verification. The findings show that the Karonese families used two types of politeness strategies which are (1) bald on record strategy and (2) positive politeness strategy, both interactions; parent to parent and parent to child at home. They expressed their politeness strategies by using kinship forms and pronoun. There are three reasons why they used bald on record strategy as the dominant type; first, social Distance (D) of the speaker and hearer, second, Power (P) between them, and third, the Rank of imposition (R).