A PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF POLITENESS STRATEGY IN THE COURSEBOOK: LOOK AHEAD 2 AN ENGLISH COURSE FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS YEAR XI

This research aims at (1) describing the types of politeness strategy applied in the coursebook, and (2) analyzing the realization of those types of politeness strategy in the coursebook. This research belongs to descriptive qualitative study. The data of the research were in the form of words, phrases, and sentences in the content of the texts in the coursebook. The main instrument of the research was the researcher himself and the secondary one was the data sheet. The data were collected by note-taking. In analyzing the data, the researcher used referential methods in which the methods were done by identifying and re-examining the data based on the theory of politeness strategy proposed by House and Kasper in Watts (2003: 182). The validity of the research was gained by doing investigator and theoretical triangulation. The research reveals two findings. First, there are ten types of politeness strategy found in the coursebook, namely Politeness markers, Play-downs, Consultative devices, Hedges, Understaters, Downtoners, Committers, Forewarning, Hesitators, and Agent avoiders. Among other types of politeness strategy, Politeness markers occur most frequently and Scope-staters contrastingly are not found in the coursebook. Second, the realization of the types of politeness strategy in the coursebook generally employs modal verbs as a common way to state politeness in any texts especially in daily conversation texts