Impoliteness Strategies of 7-year-old children

The research discusses about Impoliteness Strategies of 7-year-old-children. The study was conducted to identify the types of Impoliteness Strategies used, to describe the realization of the Impoliteness Strategies realized and to explain the reason of using Impoliteness Strategies realized by 7-year-old children. This research is a descriptive qualitative research. To obtain the data 10 children were observed. In doing the analysis, Miles, Hubermen and Saldana 2014 steps theories were used. To achieve the objective the steps used were data condensation, data display and data verification. The result shows that there are four strategies found namely Bald on Record Impoliteness (50%), Positive Impoliteness (20%), Negative Impoliteness (20%), Withhold Politeness (10%), while Sarcasm/Mock Politeness wasn’t found (0%). The realization of the impoliteness strategies were shown in these outputs namely, Snub and Ignore (22%), Condescend, Scam, Ridicule (20%), Explicitly associate the other with negative aspect (14%), seek disagreement, avoid agreement (10%), threaten/frighten (10%), use inappropriate identity markers (8%), Disassociate (2%), while use taboo word wasn’t found (0%). The reason of using the Impoliteness Strategies, were mocking (30%), to get/ show power over action or conversation (30%), to vent negative feeling (28%), to show disagreement (12%), while to entertain the target audience wasn’t found (0%). The new finding in the reason of using the Impoliteness Strategies was mocking which got the same percentage as to get/show power over action or conversation, (30%)