Refusal strategies used by characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald the great gatsby

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Avianti, Giant Amelia (2023) Refusal strategies used by characters in F. Scott Fitzgerald the great gatsby. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study discusses the refusal strategies used by characters in The Great Gastby Novel. Politeness strategies are including many language features but this study only focuses on refusal strategies. The purposes of this study are to find out what are the classifications of refusals strategies used by the characters in The Great Gatsby novel and how are refusals strategies used by the characters in The Great Gatsby novel. This study is applying the descriptive qualitative research design. The qualitative studies are applied to analyze the types of refusal strategies and the functions of refusal strategies. First, the researcher collected the data of refusal utterances from the novel of The Great Gastby. Then, the data were identified and classified into three types of refusal strategies and the functions of refusal utterences used by the characters of The Great Gastby novel. The result of this study reveals there are 28 refusal strategies used by the characters of The Great Gastby novel. The results after 28 refusal utterances classified to each type of refusal strategies are: Direct refusal strategies; dominated the chart with 64% of utterances, indirect refusal strategies; had 25% of refusal utterances, and the last strategies with the least refusal utterances is Adjuct refusal strategies with 11%. The result was different from the latest study because most of the characters of this novel described as a high social status person which have the power to use the direct refusal strategies. This study also combaine refusal strategies with the functions of refusal strategies. the total of refusal strategies classified with 4 functions of refusal: refusal of suggestion and refusal of request are the two functions with the highest using with 9 refusal utterances. The second spot is refusal of offer with 5 refusal strategies. And the last with the least refusal strategies (2) is refusal of invitation.

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Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate)
Creators:
CreatorsEmailNIM
Avianti, Giant AmeliaAmeliaavianti01@gmail.comA03216018
Contributors:
ContributionNameEmailNIDN
Thesis advisorMilal, A Dzouldzoulmilal@uinsby.ac.id2015056002
Subjects: Komunikasi
Linguistik
Keywords: Politeness strategies; refusal strategies; functions of refusal; the great gatsby.
Divisions: Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: Giant Amelia Avianti
Date Deposited: 21 Aug 2023 02:32
Last Modified: 21 Aug 2023 02:32
URI: http://digilib.uinsa.ac.id/id/eprint/64372

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