REFUSAL STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH SPEECH: A PRAGMATIC STUDY (original) (raw)

This thesis is entitled “Refusal Strategies in English Speech: a Pragmatic Study”. The objectives of this study are to find out and explain types of refusal classifications, refusal strategies, and refusal process. This study uses qualitative descriptive method; the researcher chooses document analysis research technique in analyzing the data. There are twenty three episodes of Ugly Betty serials the researcher uses to find the data. The researcher believes that the serials reflect the real lives of Americans. The researcher describes and analyzes utterances which are uttered by the characters from the serials based on the theories of Beebe et al. (1990) and Gass and Houck (1999). The analysis shows that all characters in Ugly Betty serials use more than one strategy in one refusal. The mostly used strategies are direct refusal, explanation/reason, and adjunct.