Politeness Strategies of Requests used in Mangupa Mandailing Wedding Ceremony

This study aimed at analyzing the kind politeness strategy in request which
represented in speech of Mangupa in Mandailing Wedding Ceremony. The
descriptive qualitative method used to gain the findings of the data itself. From
that findings, 18 requests from 1 speakers has been analyzed. And from those, 22
requests filtered throught transcribing the event. Of all 22 requests, it was found
that there were 7 politeness strategies used, they were Mood derivable,
Performatives, Hedged Performatives, Obligation Statement, Want Statement,
Suggestory Formulae, Query Prepatory. Later on, the performatives was the
dominant type of politeness since the Mangupa was a sacred ceremony, the using
of prformatives would be found in many ways. The instrument of this study was
recording the event from video recorder and transcribing them into list. And from
that list, the categorization would be easy to exctract the data. Thus the writer
found that positive politeness that used also similar to another local tribe wedding
ceremony.