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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study was a descriptive qualitative study focusing on the way Ambonese
expressed their disagreements. The writer was interested in taking this topic
because she wanted to know the way Ambonese male and Ambonese female
expressed their disagreements, the dominant strategies they used and also the
differences in their ways of expressing disagreement in communication. The
writer took three Ambonese male and three Ambonese female students at Petra
Christian University as her respondents. In analyzing the data, the writer used
Garcia?s classification of Confrontational and Non-confrontational devices
(1989). From the analysis, the writer found that both Ambonese male and
Ambonese female liked to use confrontational devices to express their
disagreements. The dominant strategies used by them were `strong denial?,
`challenge? and also `giving reasons? strategies. From the finding, the writer
realized that female do not always use indirectness in expressing their opinions.
The close relationship between participants made them brave to express their
disagreements directly by using confrontational devices such as `strong denial?
and `challenge? strategies. On the other hand, male respondents still used direct
ways to express their disagreements in conversations by using confrontational
devices such as `challenge? and `strong denial? but keep explaining the reasons for
disagreeing clearly and in a detailed with `giving reasons? strategy.