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between politeness and impoliteness is, “…intention: whether it is the speaker’s
intention to support face (politeness) or to attack it (impoliteness)” (p. 86).
Furthermore, Bousfield (2008) also believed that
impoliteness has two purposes
which are, “unmitigated, in contexts where mitigation is required, and/or with deliberate
aggression, that is, with face threat exacerbated, ‘boosted’, or maximized in some way to
heighten the face damage inflicted” (p. 72). In brief, we can say that as the speaker, we
try to offense the hearer by our utterances by using impoliteness.
2.4.1
The Impoliteness Strategies
The concept of impoliteness is quite similar with the concept of politeness.
According to Culpeper (1996), there are five super strategies of impoliteness; they are
bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness,
negative impoliteness,
sarcasm or
mock politeness and withhold politeness
(as cited from
Bousfield, 2008, pp. 84-85).
Actually, the writer can say that the impoliteness strategy by Culpeper (1996) is the
opposite of the politeness strategy from Brown and Levinson (1978).
2.4.1.1 Bald on Record Impoliteness
Culpeper (1996) said that, “bald on record impoliteness
superstrategy are
typically deployed where there is much fake at stake, and where there is an intention on
the part of the speaker to attack the face of the hearer” (p. 84).
It means that we as the
speakers consciously do this strategy to attack someone’s face and we do it firmly. For
example, when one of our friend ask us how to make an facebook account and then we
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