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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelRefusal to invitation is considered as one of Face-Threatening Acts
(FTA), especially to the positive face-want of the addressee. Thus, there are some
strategies, related to politeness strategies, needed in order to lower the threat as
well as to have a smooth interaction. The writer is interested in analyzing the
politeness strategies expressed by students of Petra Christian University when
they refuse invitations made by different sex of interlocutors. This research was
qualitative research. It also contained a very small portion of quantitative
research. The writer got the data by interviewing the participants. In her analysis,
the writer classified the refusal responses into the refusal strategies proposed by
Garcia (1992), and categorized them based on the sex of the subjects. Then, she
tabulated the number of refusal strategies to find out the most frequently used
strategies of refusal. Next, the writer classified the most frequently used strategies
of refusal into the politeness strategies proposed by Brown and Levinson (1978)
and classified in Scollon and Scollon?s scheme (1993), which also used by Garcia
(1992) in her research, that made the writer to see the politeness strategies
expressed by the respondents in refusing invitation. Thereafter, she made
comparison between males and females. Finally, the writer found that both
subjects, male and female, expressed deference politeness strategies, which
include negative politeness, more than solidarity politeness strategies, which was
suggested in refusing invitation since they include positive politeness. However,
the number of deference politeness strategies expressed by females was greater
than the one expressed by the males.