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Yule (1996)
also
said that negative politeness is a face saving act that is
concerned with someone’s negative face that has a tendency to be deference and also the
important other’s time or concern and also the apology for the imposition or interruption
(p. 62). The example is when we ask someone to lend us some money by saying “Could
you lend me some money?”. In this example, we can see that the speaker gives a freedom
to the hearer to lend or not to lend the money to the speaker. Because of that reason, that
utterance is considered to the negative politeness.
2.3.4
Face Saving Acts (FSAs) and Face Threatening Acts (FTAs)
Yule (1996, p. 61)
stated that Face Saving Acts (FSAs) is defined as
an action
when a speaker says something that lessens the possible threat. It means that when we
say something with the same meaning as we intend to say, but
in a softer way. In
contrast, Culpeper, Short and Verdonk (1998, p. 84)
stated that when we threaten the
negative and the positive face of others, this acts can be called as Face Threatening Acts
(FTAs). It happens when we say something that will threat other’s face.
The different of FSAs and also the FTAs can be seen through the example from
Yule (1996) which is about a young neighbor who plays his music very loud in the night
and there is an older couple tries to sleep. Then the man does the face threatening act by
saying, “I’m going to tell him to stop that awful noise right now!”. On the other hand,
the woman does the face saving act by saying, “Perhaps you could just ask him if he is
going to stop soon because it’s getting a bit late and people need to get to sleep” (p. 61).
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