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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis study is about politeness strategies related to gender and role
relationship. Politeness strategies are strategies that are used to minimize or avoid
the face threatening acts that a speaker makes. According to Brown and Levinson
(1987), politeness strategies are divided into four strategies, which are bald on
record, positive politeness, negative politeness and off record. The role
relationship is the relationship, which people have to each other in an act of
communication and which influences the way they speak to each other (Richards,
Platt, and Weber, 1985). According to Collins (1995) gender is any of the
categories such as masculine, feminine, neuter or common, within such a set. It is
a state of being male, female or neuter. The writer wanted to know what type of
politeness strategies related to role relationship and gender used by employer and
the worker in Jaya Melati store. The writer used conversations between the
employer and the workers in Juyu Melati store. After doing the analysis, the
writer concluded that positive politeness and off record occurred in the
conversation between the employer and the workers. Moreover, the writer found
that the employer used bald on record, positive politeness and off record in talking
to the male and the female workers. Then, the male worker mostly used off record
in talking to the employer and the female worker. Yet, the female worker mostly
used positive politeness in talking to the employer and the male worker.
Furthermore, the writer found that the employer mostly used bald on record in
talking to the male worker. On the other hand, the employer mostly used off
record in talking to the female worker. The male worker- mostly used off record in
talking, to the employer. However, the female worker mostly used positive
politeness and negative politeness in talking to the employer. When the male and
female workers talked to each other, they mostly used the same politeness
strategies that are positive politeness.