Politeness Strategies of Refusal Utterance By The Eleventh Grade Students of Mapk Man 1 Surakarta

This study aims to describe the types of refusal strategies used in refusing by the students and to describe the types of politeness strategies used in refusing. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative. The subjects of the study are 20 female students and 27 male students of the eleventh grade students of MAPK MAN 1 Surakarta. The data of the study are refusal utterances that taken through the nine situations with different power and distance in the Discourse Completion Task (DCT). The data source of the research is utterances used by eleventh grade students of MAPK MAN 1 Surakarta that containing refusal utterance. The data were analyzed by Bebee et al’s refusal strategy and Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategy. The finding of the study showed that the participants use two types of refusal, namely direct and indirect while they elaborated formula of adjunct. Almost all of the students tended to use direct in refusing a request, invitation and suggestion. The writer also found that most of the students used negative politeness