• Nurhasanah

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• Dadang Suganda

  Author

• Nani Darmayanti

  Author

A politeness strategy is a skill used to make polite conversation so the
hearer feels appreciated, both in formal and informal conversation. In this study,
researchers will discuss a formal conversation; especially in the event of propose in
Lampung Komering. This study is about politeness strategies used by speakers in
commissive illocutionary speech acts. The primary data in this study is the video of
the proposing ceremony in Lampung Komering , and the secondary data is the archive
for proposing in Lampung Komering . This study describes what kind of politeness
strategies used by speakers. The method used in this study is qualitative method with
the descriptive concept. This study uses qualitative methods so that the data obtained
is not stated in the form of numbers or statistics, but in the form of qualitative
expressed in words . Descriptive concept is not considering the truth or falsity of the
data obtained. The result of the study shows two politeness strategies using direct
strategy and indirect strategy, while other data use negative politeness strategy and
solidarity strategy.

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