Negative Politeness Strategy on Expressive Act of Rosi Talk Show

Abstract

Rosi talk show was a conversation program that presented Indonesian politics with supporting
and opposing government arguments. The objectives were to find expressive acts and to explain
how expressive acts performed negative politeness in the Rosi talk show. The theories used
politeness strategy by Brown and Levinson (1987) on negative politeness in expressive act by
Searle (1975) by the moderator. This study used qualitative content analysis, and the location
was YouTube Channel KompasTV. The data were the moderator utterances involving expressive
acts representing negative politeness. This research was a purposive sampling technique
focussing on three segments in ‘student’s demonstration and Ade Armando percussion’. The
data collection technique was free to engage in conversation to transcribe data audio into
written, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was used to know the moderator's politeness
tendencies. This study used an interactive method by Miles&Huberman (1992) to conclude. The
result showed 18 expressive acts with six sub-strategy of negative politeness. Then, seven
expressive speech acts: thanking, apologising, blaming, praising, showing sympathy, and
accusing. Next, the dominant moderators’ expressive act was blaming. While there are four sub
negative politeness strategies: indirect, making pessimism, minimising impositions, and
apologising. The researcher found that negative politeness strategies were realised with
expressive acts using suspecting to interact with pros participants.