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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelIn communication, people cannot avoid expressing disagreements when
they have different ideas, opinions, or solutions and this might affect human
interactions. A speaker who is disagreed a lot might feel offended and this will
affect the interaction between participants.
Disagreement is one language functions that is considered as an act which
by its nature threatens someone's positive face. The writer is interested in
observing disagreements in the film Ten Things I Hate About You which is present
the life style of American teenagers. The writer is curious to know what
disagreement strategy is used the most by them. In addition, the expressions or the
mimics of the characters could be seen, so that it helped the writer to understand
the expression of disagreement better.
This research was a descriptive qualitative one while the writer got the
data from the conversation among the characters. The writer analyzed all
characters that were involved in all disagreement and classified the strategy of
disagreement based on Garcia theory. The writer found out that the strategy used
mostly by the characters was the giving reason strategy. Besides, the characters
also tended to use strong denial strategy to show his/ her disagreement