• Andi Rustandi

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This study is aimed at investigating reques strategies performed by the
students in the university level. In this regard, the theory of Brown and Levinson
(1987) was applied as the basic of politeness strategy implementation. The presents
study, the writer addressed a research question deals with the kinds of politeness
strategies performed by the students in requesting by administering Discourse
Completion Tests (DCT) to twenty respondents at the third year of One Private
University. In analyzing the data, CCSARP coding scheme were applied to classify
students’ request into nine-point scale. In identifying the kinds of politeness
strategies performed by the students, the writer adapted the theories politeness
strategies from Brown and Levinson (1987). The results of this presents study
showed that the students performed four super politeness strategies when requesting.
It means that the use of four super politeness strategies were performed by the
students in requesting.

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