<![CDATA[This research is an analysis about the use of politeness strategies in the conversation between students English literature department. The purposes of this research are to classify the strategies of politeness which are used by the students of the third grade during the studying activity and the factor which is support them to use politeness strategies. This research used qualitative method. The researcher analyzes the data based on the Brown and Levinson’s theory which explains about the strategies and factors of politeness. The research subject is the students of the third grade of sixth semester in English literature department. The research object is the conversation conducted by them during the studying process. The result of the research showed that the total of politeness strategies used by the students is 53 data. The highest number of politeness strategies used by the students is bald on record strategy. In addition, the lowest number of politeness used by the students is positive politeness strategy. The factors which are influenced the students to use these politeness strategies are social distance, power relation, and the degree of impositions. The most dominant factor which influence students to use politeness strategies is social distance.]]>
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