Diplomatic Strategy between Indonesia-Australia through Politeness Strategy in Pragmatic Study
Rosaria Mita Amalia1*, Elvi Citraresmana1, Nurul Hikmayaty Saefullah1
Citation : Rosaria Mita Amalia, Elvi Citraresmana, Nurul Hikmayaty Saefullah, Diplomatic Strategy between Indonesia-Australia through Politeness Strategy in Pragmatic Study International Journal on Studies in English Language and Literature 2018, 6(8) : 15-21
Australian and Indonesia cooperate in some fields namely politics, economics, education, culture, and some more. The matters discussed between Australian and Indonesia are bilateral cooperation, espionage allegations, people smuggling, Schapelle Corby, and Papua provinces. This research aims to identify and analyze types of situation that embody the utterances found in diplomatic press release transcription and politeness strategies used in each situation. This research uses qualitative approach by applying Joos (Joos 1967) and Chaer (1995) theory about types of situation, Austin (1962), Searle (1979), dan Loxely (2007) theory about utterances and speech acts, and politeness strategies theory by Brown dan Levinson (1983). The data is collected through diplomatic press release transcription written in English from Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Republic of Indonesia. The result shows that type of situation that embodies in diplomatic press release transcription is consultative style because it occurs in semi-formal situation. The politeness strategies used in diplomatic press release transcription is Face Threatening Act (FTA) off-record which shows that the speaker tries to do saving-face and his utterances has other meaning beyond it.