What Is Roekmini's Politeness Strategy

2. Roekmini’s politeness strategies.
a. Negative politeness strategy
1. Question, Hedge
This is the most frequent stategy used by Roekmini in this movie, its also picturize the charaacter of Roekmini who have big curiousity, easy to panic, but she is also smart and criical woman. Roekmini often used this strategy when she had a conversatin with Kartini or Kardinah, she often ask Kartini’s opinion about something, since she really respect Kartini as her older sister.
2. Be conventionally Indirect
Roekmini use this strategy only once, Roekmini apply this strategy when she have conversation with Kartini as Kartini ask Kardinah and her to praise her a lot. Roekmini show his rejection by said that if she is forced to praise Kartini a lot, she will

Kartini’s factors of politeness strategy
Mostly Kartini’s factors that influencing the choice of politeness strategy is Power with 54 times (65,1%), followed by Distance use for 23 times (27,7%), and Rank of imposition as the least factors with only 6 times used by Kartini (7,2%).
Kartini’s choice of politeness strategy often influenced by Power, since her position as someone who has high authority as the member of Ningrat family. Power in this case means having greater position, or authority, such as what Kartini done in this movie, her choice often influenced by Power if the hearer is younger, like Roekmini and Kardini, or have lower power, such as Mr. Atmo, and Mr. Singowiryo.
The second factors is Social distance, social distance means the distance between people in society, for instance, social class or relationship, Kartini’s choice is influenced by distance when she is talking to people who have different social class with Kartini, like, Mr. Singowiryo, Mr. Atmo, or Ngasirah.
The least factor is Ranking of imposition, this factors is inflenced when someone ask request to do something, for example, when Kartini teach villagers to come in to her house, the rank of imposition take a part in this conversaton as Kartini convinced the villagers do not have to be shy just come in to her

Roekmini’s factors of politeness strategy
Factors that influenced Rekmini’s choice of politeness strategy are Power used by Roekmini for 8 times (38,1%), Social distance implied for 10 times (47,6%), and Rank of imposition applied 3 times (14,3%).
Power, Roekmini shows her power factor when she was talking to Kardinah, her younger sister, however, Roekmini also shows her power in front of her step mother, for example, when she convinced her stepmother to go to school, she said that she will still be raden ayu like her mother wants, she symbolized her power by implicitly said that everything is ok, even if she went to school, nothinf will change, she still be raden ayu, Roekmini show this factoer to Kardinah when she give Kardinah commands to stop talking something nonsense, like went to die.
Social distance, Roekmini influenced by this factors mostly when she sk a question to others, what makes her showing this factors is because she ask question to someone from different social class like Ngasirah.
Ranking of imposition, one of the example how roekmini showing this factor is when she have requested her mother to let her to go to school, “Please mom, help me to go to school“, she said. She shows the great rank of imposition as the greater the request