THE REALIZATIONS OF RESPONSES TO APOLOGY PERFORMED BY INDONESIANS WHO SPEAK ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (A Case Study on the Ninth Semester Students of the English Department at Indonesia University of Education)

Diana Nuraida, - (2005) THE REALIZATIONS OF RESPONSES TO APOLOGY PERFORMED BY INDONESIANS WHO SPEAK ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (A Case Study on the Ninth Semester Students of the English Department at Indonesia University of Education). S1 thesis, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia.

Abstract

The present research investigates the Realizations of Responses to
Apolog} Performed by Indonesians who Speak English as a Foreign Language.
AsBrown and Levinson (1987) states that the act of apologizing isface-saving for
the hearer (H) and face-threatening for the speaker (S). An apology can often he
the first step to gain better understanding in a damaged relationship, so the
apologizer is expected to choose the right word to utter what he/she wants to
speak. How the respondents respond the apology, whether it is sincere/insincere
apology, may determine the future of the relationship.
The respondents of the present study were 20 students of English
Department at Indonesia University ofEducation. The data were collected through
discourse Completion Test (DCT). The collected data were then analyzed by
using the framework proposed by Blum-Kulka (1989) and Searie (1969).
The investigation revealed that the respondents respond the apology
differently. It is found that the responses can be categorized an acceptance,
conditional acceptance, request, minimizing, thanking, rejection, and passive
comment. The categories of request is manifested in five strategies, while the
categories of acceptance, conditional acceptance, minimizing, thanking, rejection,
and passive comment are not further divided into finer categories because they
only consists of IFIDs.
Furthermore, the respondents consider the social variables, setting, the
seriousness of mistake, and the initiations (the strategy of apology). While, the
power is not a strong influencing factor in the realizations of responses to
apology. This research concludes that an act of responses to apology cannot be
separated from the speaker's attempt to observe the notion of politeness.

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Item Type:	Thesis (S1)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	The Realizations of responses
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Divisions:	Fakultas Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra > Jurusan Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User:	anggaizman
Date Deposited:	26 Sep 2022 08:55
Last Modified:	26 Sep 2022 08:55
URI:	http://repository.upi.edu/id/eprint/81711

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