Disagreement Strategies of Madurese Senior High School and College Graduates

Research on disagreement is always associated with politeness. Research on politeness
strategies for native local language outside the actual location has not much observed. This
research aims to identify the disagreement strategies in Indonesian used by Senior High School
(SHS) and College (C) graduates of Madurese who have lived in Surabaya for more than five
years. This study used a survey design (quantitative method) by applying a questionnaire and
interview as the instruments. The subjects of this research were 25 SHS graduates and 25 C
graduates. To analyze the data, SPSS version 2.0 was used. The results of data analysis showed
that Madurese SHS and C graduates chose the disagreement strategy of expression of regret,
contradiction, hedges opinion, counterclaims and token agreement. The expression of regret
and counterclaims strategy served as the dominant strategies mostly expressed with the reason
that they were common, easy and the most suitable strategy for disagreeing.

Keywords: disagreement strategies, Madurese, power and social distance.