Javanese Politeness: Strategy Of Politeness Of Fta Recipients In Kbj Vi

This paper discusses face threatening act strategies in responding to 'face threatening speech acts' that afflict hearer. This article is extracted from the results of research on the speech acts of the participants of the Kongres Budaya Jawa (KBJ) VI or Javanese Culture Congress. It is known, in the speech act of the involved KBJ VI, there were suspected threatening face speech acts (FTA), which were carried out by several actors, namely presenters, moderators, and responders (audiences). FTA is a speech that is less solid because it can make the speech partner feel embarrassed and feel unhappy, so that it has the potential to provoke an angry reaction for the recipient. Some of them responded by laughing and jokingly acknowledging their mistakes, there were those who were silent without a reaction as if ignoring it, some responded with a smile without words, some responded with more self-humiliation. These various reactions are more of a politeness strategy from FTA recipients in maintaining harmony and peace so that no significant tension occurs. It is like the Javanese politeness teaching " amemangun karyenak tyasing sesama " (trying to make others happy). The overview of politeness strategy is also shown as the result of the problem as the positive respond to face threatening act.