ADDRESS TERMS AS THE POSITIVE POLITENESS STRATEGY USED BY THE MIDWIFERY STUDENTS

Abstract

In communication, people negotiate meaning with the addressee. When they negotiate the meaning, they need some strategies. One of the strategies is politeness strategy. This study is aimed at finding out the address terms used by the second semester of midwifery students of AKBID Muslimat NU, Kudus, Central Java. The researcher used descriptive qualitative as the approach and the data collected through the role plays of twenty students. Then, the researcher recorded, transcribed, and interpreted them. The analysis of address term used was based on Leech’s theory (1983). The result of analysis showed that there were eleven situations in which the address terms used by the midwife and client. They were greeting (2%), thanking 15,6 %, intimacy 2%, congratulation 0%, praising 11,7 %, apology 11,7%, question 11,7%, request 8%, suggestion 10%, chastisement 6%, rejection 0%, and disagreement 7,8%. From those situations, the address term for situations in which mostly used by the client are in thanking, intimacy, obedience, apology and disagreement. It means that the client would like to express the intimacy.