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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn this study, the writer investigated the types of apology strategies used by
female tenants who have close and distant social distance level with their
interlocutors. The writer also investigated the differences of apology strategies used
by these tenants to their interlocutors in terms of their social distance levels. The
theory of apology strategies by Trosborg (1995) and social distance by Holmes
(1992) were used as the main theories of this research. In this study, the writer used
descriptive qualitative data. She chose three female tenants living in a boarding house
as her respondents. Then she analyzed the conversations made by these respondents.
The result of the analysis showed that the respondents who had close social distance
used almost all apology strategies. There was only an apology strategy they did not
use namely evasive strategy. The female tenants who had distant social scale used six
apology strategies. They did not use two apology strategies namely opting out and
promise of forbearance. Moreover, the speakers and their interlocutors who had close
social distance used almost all apology strategies ranging from least polite to most
polite strategy. However, the respondents and their interlocutors who had distant
social distance tended to use more polite strategies. In conclusion, this study showed
that when people get closer to the other, they tend to be more at ease with each other.
Therefore, they were not reluctant to use least polite apology strategies. However
when two people have distant relationship, it would be impolite if they deny the
offense by using least polite apology strategies.