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“Wow, your dance…your dance is very amazing. That was amazingly bad.” This kind of
utterance can be considered as the sarcasm or mock politeness.
2.4.1.5 Withhold Politeness
According to Culpeper (1996), the criteria of the withhold politeness
is, “… the
absence of politeness work where it would be expected” (as cited from Bousfield, 2008,
p. 135). Culpeper (2005) also stated
an example
for this strategy
which is about
a
situation when we fail to thank someone for the present that he gives to us (as cited from
Bousfield, 2008, p. 135). Bousfield (2008) also added a similar definition of withhold
politeness as, “keep silence or fail to act where politeness work is expected” (p. 135).
2.5
Anger
Anger is a part of emotion that every human being has. As stated from Stanford
(2013), emotion itself is defined as, “a complex set of interactions among subjective and
objective factors, mediated by
neural/hormonal systems, which can (a) give rise to
affective experiences such as feelings of arousal, pleasure/displeasure; (b) generate
cognitive processes such as emotionally relevant perceptual effects, appraisals, labeling
processes; (c) activate widespread physiological adjustments to the arousing conditions;
and (d) lead to behavior that is often, but not always, expressive, goal-directed, and
adaptive (K&K, 1981, p. 355). In addition, Plat (2005) defined anger as,
“a feeling that
we all encounter from time to time, and frequently we
experience it as a response to
frustration, hurt, disappointment, and threats (real or imagined)” (p. 1). He also added
that anger is the result of human reaction towards threat (p. 1). Similarly, we can say that
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