@thesis{thesis,
		author={Deva Indriani   2201407217},
		title ={The Realization Strategies of Refusals Used by Undergraduate
Students of the English Department of State University of Semarang},
		year={2011},
		url={http://lib.unnes.ac.id/10137/},
		abstract={Refusing a request is considered as one of the face- threatening acts (FTAs),
especially to the positive-face. Therefore, in doing the refusal, people should be
aware of the strategies used in order to lower the threat as well as to have smooth
interaction. Moreover, there are social factors such as age, sex, social status and
social distance, which most likely influence the way people refuse the request. These
factors would affect people in choosing which strategies considered as the most
appropriate ones to be used in a certain situation. However, the strategies chosen in
the refusal might be different from one to another. The study aimed at finding out the
most frequently strategies of refusals used by senior students of the English
Department of State University of Semarang.
The data was taken by using elicitation prompts from ten undergraduate students of
the English Department of State University of Semarang. Brown and Levinson?s
framework was employed to analyze the data.
Based on the data analysis, I found that undergraduate students of the English
Department of State University of Semarang chose positive opinion/ well wishing as
the most frequently used strategy of refusal. There was other dominant strategies, that
was refusal by giving suggestion, comment, and choices, reason/ explanation, direct
refusal, thanking for refusing, expression of regret/ sorrow, criticism, promise of
future acceptance, mitigated, and token agreement/ acceptance.
The finding suggested that we should increase the awareness of the politeness aspect
especially in conveying refusal for the betterment of communicative competence as
the goal of language learning.}
		}