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Refusal strategies used by grown-up chinese indonesian sons and daughters toward their parents' requests in Surabaya

This is a study of refusal strategies that are used by grown-up Chinese
Indonesian sons and daughters toward their parents? requests in Surabaya. The
writer wants to seek whether there is any significance difference between sons and
daughters in using refusal strategies toward their mother?s and father? requests in
every situation. In conducting the research, the writer used Discourse Completion
Test (DCT), the most appropriate elicitation technique that enables to obtain more
stereotyped responses in a large sample, which is in the form of questionnaire.
The questionnaires consisted of five requests from father and five requests from
mother in given situations. The requests were arranged from the easiest task to the
most difficult task to be accomplished. The writer used five Kartomihardjo?s
models of refusal styles, namely by using the word "no", giving reason,
conditional, suggestion, and non-verbal (keep silent) as the main theory and put
them in the questionnaire as the choices to respond the requests. The writer also
provided a blank space in each request. In order to make the data become more
accurate, easy to be interpreted and to test whether there is any significant
difference between the sons? and daughters? refusal strategies, the writer used
statistics. The findings show that both sons and daughters tend to use strategy no.2
(giving reason) and strategy no.3 (conditional) towards father and strategy no.3
(conditional) toward mother. However, based on the statistics result there is no
significant difference between sons and daughters in using refusal strategies both
toward mother?s and father?s requests. Besides the refusal, the writer also finds
the side results, which are gained from the answers out of Kartomihardjo?s five
refusal strategies in the blank spaces provided in each request. Mostly sons and
daughters accept the easiest requests both from mother and father. The significant
difference is found in accepting the mother?s request no.3 and father?s request
no.3. These significant differences of acceptance by sons and daughters may be
influenced by the situation of the request, which affects them to accept it. At last,
it can be concluded that both sons and daughters have no significant difference in
using refusal strategies. The sons and daughters are more situational oriented in
responding the requests.