Politeness Strategies of Apologizing Utterances by the Students of Eleventh Grade of SMA Muhammadiyah PK Kottabarat Surakarta

The focus of this research is about politeness strategies and apologizing strategies used by the students of eleventh grade of SMA Muhammadiyah PK Kottabarat Surakarta. This research aims to describe: (1) kinds of apologizing strategies used by the students, (2) the politeness strategies of apologizing strategies used by the students. The data of this research are apologizing utterance used by the students. The technique of collecting data is discourse completion task or DCT. The data are analyzed by theory of Trosborg (1995) to analyze the apologizing utterance, also theory of Brown and Levinson (1987) to analyze the politeness strategies. The result shows that; (1) there are eleventh types of apologizing strategy, namely; explicit acknowledgement 25%, offer of repair 15.1%, promise for forbearance 2.7%, minimizing strategy 1.8%, expression of regret 24.4%, offer of apology 1.8%, request for forgiveness 8.8%, explicit explanation 11.3%, explicit denial of responsibility 0.2%, attacking the complainer 0.7%, blaming someone else 0.2%, and unvalid data 8%. (2) There are three types of politeness strategies, namely; bald on record 8.8%, positive politeness 26.8%, negative politeness 52.5%, and unvalid data 11.9%