Male and female sellers at Pasar Raya Padang in Indonesia were found to use different refusal strategies when buyers made offers on products. Male sellers most frequently used non-performative statements, which implicitly refused offers in a direct manner. In contrast, female sellers preferred to refuse offers indirectly by most often using excuses, reasons, or explanations. The study analyzed recorded conversations between sellers and buyers to identify the strategies used by gender.
ASSERTING AND INFLUENCING- Interpersonal SkillNISBALDANULLAH
The document discusses assertiveness and influencing others. It defines assertiveness as expressing one's opinions and needs, including disagreeing with others, requesting behavior changes from others, and refusing unreasonable requests. It also discusses being non-assertive, which involves an inability to influence others or express one's needs. Effective ways to influence others include starting with a minimal response and gradually escalating if needed, while avoiding being sidetracked onto other issues. Cultural values can impact assertion, so it is best regarded as a situation-specific skill.
Material for PGPSE participants of AFTERSCHOOOL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP. PGPSE is an entrepreneurship oriented programme, open for all, free for all.
Persuading, influencing and negotiating skillsMohammed Gamal
This document discusses skills for persuading, negotiating, and influencing others. It explains that persuading involves convincing others to take action, negotiating involves reaching mutually agreeable agreements, and influencing encompasses both. The document provides tips for each skill, such as focusing on others' needs, using logical arguments, and subtly complimenting others. It also discusses laws of influence, such as reciprocity, authority, and social proof. The overall message is that these skills are important for many jobs and situations, and one must understand different negotiation strategies to be effective.
Comparative study of gender differences in refusal strategiesHoang Ba
This document provides background information on a study that examines gender differences in refusal strategies used by English majors in China. It summarizes theories of speech acts, politeness principles, and refusal strategies. The study involved collecting responses to refusal situations from a discourse completion test completed by 50 female and 14 male English majors. The responses were analyzed to identify the refusal strategies used by each gender and whether they tended to use direct or indirect strategies. The results showed differences between genders, with most females using indirect refusal strategies to save face and most males using direct refusal strategies.
The main purpose of the paper is to determine the correlation of consumers’ demographic factors on
the impulse buying behavior with respect to a number of single impulsivity indicators and one collective
indicator. The paper consists of theoretical and research aspects. The first part encompasses theoretical
insights into the secondary research regarding impulse buying while the practical part presents the
methodology and primary research results. With respect to the subject matter, research goals as well as
previous findings and primary research results, corresponding hypotheses were set and mainly confirmed.
Inter variable correlation and regression analysis has been performed to test the hypothesis. The results
showed that demographic factors, such as the disposable income and age, are related to most impulse
buying indicators and to the impulsivity collective indicator. However, educational qualification and
gender produced marginal association with impulsive buying behavior. The paper also summarizes
research limitations as well as the work contribution and future research guidelines.
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COMMON FALLACIES
STRAW MAN
When an author does not accurately represent an opponent’s argument, or presents a weak, caricatured
version of that argument.
SLIPPERY SLOPE
When an author extrapolates from an opponent’s position too “creatively.” Often this involves drawing out
implications from an opponent’s position in a way that is only loosely based on the opponent’s stated
position, or which proceeds too far from the opponent’s stated position. Claiming that certain things “follow”
inevitably from an opponent’s position (in a kind of “chain reaction”) when, in fact, such an inference is
difficult to sustain.
HASTY GENERALIZATION
This involves a generalization from data that is inadequate in some important way. Usually, this means that
the generalization fails the STAR test – the data on which the generalization is based is not sufficient,
typical, accurate, or relevant. One of the most common ways in which data fails to be sufficient is when the
sample size is too small. For example, if I say smoking can’t be bad for people since both my parents
smoke and have lived to a ripe old age, the sample size I have based my generalization on is absurdly
small – 2 people. A “hasty generalization” may be most obvious when the scope of a generalization is at
odds with the amount of evidence presented – the stronger the generalization, the more evidence needed.
Anecdotal evidence may also indicate a hasty generalization – this sometimes indicates that the arguer is
using a small and unrepresentative (atypical) sample.
LOADED QUESTION/BEGGING THE QUESTION/LEADING QUESTION
This fallacy involves assuming something that it is the arguers’ responsibility to prove. It thus typically
involves the assumptions that an arguer makes. This fallacy often takes the form of a question (“Have you
stopped beating your wife yet?” “Are you still as conceited as you used to be?”) but can also be found in the
definitions and categories used by an arguer (“the liberal/conservative media,” “the death tax,” etc.) Leading
questions are attempts to force a respondent to accept a particular way of seeing an issue. Example: “will
you protect our children’s future by voting for the governor’s recall?” Anyone who says “no,” regardless of
his or her reasons for not wanting to vote for a recall, is made to seem uncaring.
FALSE DILEMMA
This involves oversimplifying an issue by declaring that only two alternatives or ways of viewing the issue
exist. Often one of these alternatives is clearly bad, so it is implied that there is only one reasonable position
to take. Sometimes people criticize such an argumentative strategy by saying that it is “reductive.” Consider
the bumper sticker “America – love it or leave it.” This assumes there are only two choices. You must “love”
America (and by extension, whatever policy its leaders carry out) or you should leave. There is no middle
ground, no room for a more qualified, nuanced position (bumper stick ...
The document discusses using participant observation to analyze differences in behaviors and body language between males and females on a bus ride. The observer took the bus from UBC to Metrotown Station at 1PM and back to campus at 6PM, recording ethnographic field notes. The data gathered from this observation of potential differences in male and female behaviors on public transit is intended to provide insights.
ASSERTING AND INFLUENCING- Interpersonal SkillNISBALDANULLAH
The document discusses assertiveness and influencing others. It defines assertiveness as expressing one's opinions and needs, including disagreeing with others, requesting behavior changes from others, and refusing unreasonable requests. It also discusses being non-assertive, which involves an inability to influence others or express one's needs. Effective ways to influence others include starting with a minimal response and gradually escalating if needed, while avoiding being sidetracked onto other issues. Cultural values can impact assertion, so it is best regarded as a situation-specific skill.
Material for PGPSE participants of AFTERSCHOOOL CENTRE FOR SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP. PGPSE is an entrepreneurship oriented programme, open for all, free for all.
Persuading, influencing and negotiating skillsMohammed Gamal
This document discusses skills for persuading, negotiating, and influencing others. It explains that persuading involves convincing others to take action, negotiating involves reaching mutually agreeable agreements, and influencing encompasses both. The document provides tips for each skill, such as focusing on others' needs, using logical arguments, and subtly complimenting others. It also discusses laws of influence, such as reciprocity, authority, and social proof. The overall message is that these skills are important for many jobs and situations, and one must understand different negotiation strategies to be effective.
Comparative study of gender differences in refusal strategiesHoang Ba
This document provides background information on a study that examines gender differences in refusal strategies used by English majors in China. It summarizes theories of speech acts, politeness principles, and refusal strategies. The study involved collecting responses to refusal situations from a discourse completion test completed by 50 female and 14 male English majors. The responses were analyzed to identify the refusal strategies used by each gender and whether they tended to use direct or indirect strategies. The results showed differences between genders, with most females using indirect refusal strategies to save face and most males using direct refusal strategies.
The main purpose of the paper is to determine the correlation of consumers’ demographic factors on
the impulse buying behavior with respect to a number of single impulsivity indicators and one collective
indicator. The paper consists of theoretical and research aspects. The first part encompasses theoretical
insights into the secondary research regarding impulse buying while the practical part presents the
methodology and primary research results. With respect to the subject matter, research goals as well as
previous findings and primary research results, corresponding hypotheses were set and mainly confirmed.
Inter variable correlation and regression analysis has been performed to test the hypothesis. The results
showed that demographic factors, such as the disposable income and age, are related to most impulse
buying indicators and to the impulsivity collective indicator. However, educational qualification and
gender produced marginal association with impulsive buying behavior. The paper also summarizes
research limitations as well as the work contribution and future research guidelines.
1COMMON FALLACIES STRAW MAN When an author does no.docxfelicidaddinwoodie
�1
COMMON FALLACIES
STRAW MAN
When an author does not accurately represent an opponent’s argument, or presents a weak, caricatured
version of that argument.
SLIPPERY SLOPE
When an author extrapolates from an opponent’s position too “creatively.” Often this involves drawing out
implications from an opponent’s position in a way that is only loosely based on the opponent’s stated
position, or which proceeds too far from the opponent’s stated position. Claiming that certain things “follow”
inevitably from an opponent’s position (in a kind of “chain reaction”) when, in fact, such an inference is
difficult to sustain.
HASTY GENERALIZATION
This involves a generalization from data that is inadequate in some important way. Usually, this means that
the generalization fails the STAR test – the data on which the generalization is based is not sufficient,
typical, accurate, or relevant. One of the most common ways in which data fails to be sufficient is when the
sample size is too small. For example, if I say smoking can’t be bad for people since both my parents
smoke and have lived to a ripe old age, the sample size I have based my generalization on is absurdly
small – 2 people. A “hasty generalization” may be most obvious when the scope of a generalization is at
odds with the amount of evidence presented – the stronger the generalization, the more evidence needed.
Anecdotal evidence may also indicate a hasty generalization – this sometimes indicates that the arguer is
using a small and unrepresentative (atypical) sample.
LOADED QUESTION/BEGGING THE QUESTION/LEADING QUESTION
This fallacy involves assuming something that it is the arguers’ responsibility to prove. It thus typically
involves the assumptions that an arguer makes. This fallacy often takes the form of a question (“Have you
stopped beating your wife yet?” “Are you still as conceited as you used to be?”) but can also be found in the
definitions and categories used by an arguer (“the liberal/conservative media,” “the death tax,” etc.) Leading
questions are attempts to force a respondent to accept a particular way of seeing an issue. Example: “will
you protect our children’s future by voting for the governor’s recall?” Anyone who says “no,” regardless of
his or her reasons for not wanting to vote for a recall, is made to seem uncaring.
FALSE DILEMMA
This involves oversimplifying an issue by declaring that only two alternatives or ways of viewing the issue
exist. Often one of these alternatives is clearly bad, so it is implied that there is only one reasonable position
to take. Sometimes people criticize such an argumentative strategy by saying that it is “reductive.” Consider
the bumper sticker “America – love it or leave it.” This assumes there are only two choices. You must “love”
America (and by extension, whatever policy its leaders carry out) or you should leave. There is no middle
ground, no room for a more qualified, nuanced position (bumper stick ...
The document discusses using participant observation to analyze differences in behaviors and body language between males and females on a bus ride. The observer took the bus from UBC to Metrotown Station at 1PM and back to campus at 6PM, recording ethnographic field notes. The data gathered from this observation of potential differences in male and female behaviors on public transit is intended to provide insights.
This document provides an overview of pragmatics and summarizes several key concepts in pragmatics. It begins with defining pragmatics as the systematic study of language use in context. It then distinguishes pragmatics from semantics and discourse analysis. Several pragmatic concepts are then summarized in 1-2 sentences each, including speech act theory, conversational implicature, conversational maxims, politeness, presupposition, deixis, and reference and inference. The document aims to introduce some of the main topics and approaches in the field of pragmatics.
Audience Analysis Sections 16.1What Is a.docxrock73
Audience Analysis
Sections 16.1
What Is an Audience Analysis?
&
Why Conduct an Audience Analysis?
Public Speaking as
Shared ActivityThe interaction between speaker and audience; speakers jointly create meaning with audiences.Public speaking is an audience-centered activity in which the speaker considers the needs and interest of the audience.Audience analysis is the process of gathering information about the people in the audience so a speaker can understand their needs, values, and expectations.Find an appropriate way to acknowledge and greet your audience.
Choose a
Worthwhile TopicYour topic should reflect regard for the audience; audiences do not want to listen to a speech that is too simple or a topic they already know a great deal about.Many students are tempted to choose an easy topic or a topic they already know a great deal about because it decreases their own workload rather than engaging audience interest.Choose a topic that is interesting enough for you to research and your audience to listen to.
Clarity is ImportantUse straightforward vocabulary and avoid convoluted sentences.
The Risk of ControversyControversial topics are topics about which people disagree.Many controversial topics confront people’s fundamental and closely-held values.There are often more than two perspectives on important controversial topics.How you treat your audience is just as important as how you treat your topic.
Adapting to
Audience NeedsAudiences differ in their perspectives and readiness to accept new ideas.Even in a homogeneous audience, an audience composed of people who are similar to one another, different listeners will understand the same ideas in different ways.Every member of every audience has his or her own frame of reference generated by their unique life experience.
Categories of
Life Experiences Demographic information refers to gender, age range, marital status, race and ethnicity, all of which impact an audience’s perspectives and needs.Socioeconomic status refers to characteristics including income, wealth, level of education, and occupational prestige.Psychographic information involves the beliefs, attitudes, values, and opinions that are most often difficult to predict.
Respecting your audience means that you avoid offending, excluding, or trivializing the beliefs and values they hold.
DiversityRefers not only to racial and ethnic groups, but also to religion, sexual orientation, body size, and physical and mental ability.
Respecting Diverse AudiencesBeing mindful of diversity means being respectful of all people and avoiding racism, ethnocentrism, stereotyping, sexism, ageism, elitism, and other assumptions.It’s easy to assume that people from a given culture are just alike, but they’re not; their social roles, life experiences, and circumstances vary.Frame of reference may be difficult to predict; for instance, we might assume that a successful businessman is primarily interested in p ...
This document discusses theories of politeness from a socio-pragmatic perspective. It outlines Brown and Levinson's influential theory of politeness from 1978, which proposes that politeness arises from people's desire to protect each other's "face" or public self-image. Brown and Levinson identify two types of face - positive face, which is the desire to be approved of, and negative face, which is the desire to not be imposed on. They suggest politeness strategies like indirect speech acts that mitigate potential threats to another's face. The document also reviews other approaches to politeness including social norm, conversational contact, and maxims approaches.
This document outlines five common negotiation behaviors: attacking, evading, informing, opening, and uniting. Attacking involves hostile behaviors that usually elicit a defensive response. Evading means avoiding issues under discussion, which can be positive if used to table major disagreements. Informing means explaining one's perspective, needs, values, and positions. It can be done competitively by stating positions rigidly or collaboratively by explaining underlying interests flexibly. Opening involves asking questions to understand the other side and listening without judgment. It is the most effective behavior for reducing hostility and identifying shared interests. Uniting builds on opening and informing to find common ground and link issues to shared needs.
This document summarizes key aspects of conducting qualitative fieldwork and interviews. It discusses gaining access to field sites, establishing rapport with subjects, negotiating permission, and issues that can arise from cultural differences between researchers and subjects. The document also provides tips for first visits to field sites, using covert or overt research approaches, structuring interviews, and dealing with politically charged settings. The overall goal of fieldwork is to immerse oneself in a site to understand subjects' perspectives through observation, conversation and rapport building.
Politeness strategies aim to save face for all parties in an interaction. There are positive and negative forms of politeness. Positive politeness emphasizes solidarity, while negative politeness respects independence. Indirect speech acts allow speakers to communicate needs or requests off the record, leaving it up to the other party to respond or not. Direct on-record requests risk threatening another's face. Pre-sequences, like pre-requests or pre-invitations, give the other option to accept or decline before the main act is performed, reducing face risk. Understanding politeness helps explain how people communicate more than just the words' literal meaning.
This document summarizes several theories of effective communication principles proposed by linguists. It discusses Paul Grice's maxims of conversation which include quantity, quality, relation, and manner. It also covers Geoffrey Leech's politeness principle and maxims. Finally, it summarizes Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson's politeness theory, including their concepts of face and face threatening acts, and different politeness superstrategies.
This file is related to Business Communication in which we study persuasive message of value,persuasive message of policy, persuasive message of speech. Types of evidence which are observation, interviews, survey data, experiments, personal experience.
This document discusses techniques used to gain compliance from others, including the foot-in-the-door technique, door-in-the-face technique, and reciprocity. The foot-in-the-door technique involves getting someone to agree to a small request first to increase the likelihood they will comply with a larger subsequent request. The door-in-the-face technique is the opposite, starting with a large request that will be refused to set up smaller subsequent requests. Both have been shown to be effective compliance strategies. Reciprocation is also used, such as with free samples, to instigate the norm of repaying favors.
The act of speech can be performed by understanding the language, such as refusing someone or requesting for something. In many cultures and regions, the refusing strategies are different. According to Austin (1962) cited in (Al-Kahtani, 2005), “speech act is defined as functional element of any interaction or communication”.
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Facebook Consensus: The Dynamics of Social Media Responses
Wendy Perez Ramos
Florida International University
The Dynamics of Social Media Responses
Moral judgment is commonly swayed by irrelevant factors, whereby people tend to arrive at the judgment(s) about different actions as being wrong if they are predisposed to fury prior to the making of moral judgment. On the contrary, the bias for positive emotions makes unacceptable actions at times appear acceptable. In the context, dilemmas that came before the prevalent one influence the permissibility of the unwarranted actions (Kundu & Cummins, 2013). The violation of rationality norms occurs when people allow social consensus to take precedence to facts (Kundu & Cummins, 2013). In like manner, accepting conformity creates room for error and confusion to spread reign a group, whereas the making of independent decisions as well as resistance to conform tends to be socially constructive (Kundu & Cummins, 2013). In this case, resistance to conformity may be considered both moral and rational, as it is commonplace for people’s behaviors to be frequently judged based on whether the persons involved relied on their moral principles or they simply complied. Conformity is, however, considered illogical if a person holds the belief that social consensus should be awarded less weight in the decision in comparison to one’s beliefs and values (Kundu & Cummins, 2013). In a nutshell, conformity can possibly be an outcome of a rational process, whereby the concerned people chose to follow their beliefs and the truth at the expense of a lie.
The seeking of knowledge continuously takes place on various social media platforms, whereby the determinants of the messages obtained by an individual are the pages followed and the friends that one has. Unfortunately, the platforms are responsible for the spread of fake news, whereby some players hide their identities and post content to reinforce their positions (Perfumi et al., 2019). Notably, social norms exist on the platforms but people’s perception of the values vary for a number of reasons, which include platform type, anonymity, and the nature of relationships between friends (Perfumi et al., 2019). Moreover, conformity to social norms in the context of social platforms varies significantly from that of face to face, while social influence therein may be categorized into norms-oriented social influence and information-oriented one. Remarkably, it would be necessary to create a distinction between the two aspects. The implication is that online users who feel that they are anonymous may experience the temptation to disregard the opinions that they could be exposed to. The other implication may be the motive of the users of online platforms. Where the intention is communication at the expense of conformity to social norms, the communicators tend to disregard the norms completely, while they ma ...
Running head FACEBOOK CONSENSUS 1FACEBOOK CONSENSUS6MalikPinckney86
Running head: FACEBOOK CONSENSUS 1
FACEBOOK CONSENSUS 6
Facebook Consensus: The Dynamics of Social Media Responses
Wendy Perez Ramos
Florida International University
The Dynamics of Social Media Responses
Moral judgment is commonly swayed by irrelevant factors, whereby people tend to arrive at the judgment(s) about different actions as being wrong if they are predisposed to fury prior to the making of moral judgment. On the contrary, the bias for positive emotions makes unacceptable actions at times appear acceptable. In the context, dilemmas that came before the prevalent one influence the permissibility of the unwarranted actions (Kundu & Cummins, 2013). The violation of rationality norms occurs when people allow social consensus to take precedence to facts (Kundu & Cummins, 2013). In like manner, accepting conformity creates room for error and confusion to spread reign a group, whereas the making of independent decisions as well as resistance to conform tends to be socially constructive (Kundu & Cummins, 2013). In this case, resistance to conformity may be considered both moral and rational, as it is commonplace for people’s behaviors to be frequently judged based on whether the persons involved relied on their moral principles or they simply complied. Conformity is, however, considered illogical if a person holds the belief that social consensus should be awarded less weight in the decision in comparison to one’s beliefs and values (Kundu & Cummins, 2013). In a nutshell, conformity can possibly be an outcome of a rational process, whereby the concerned people chose to follow their beliefs and the truth at the expense of a lie.
The seeking of knowledge continuously takes place on various social media platforms, whereby the determinants of the messages obtained by an individual are the pages followed and the friends that one has. Unfortunately, the platforms are responsible for the spread of fake news, whereby some players hide their identities and post content to reinforce their positions (Perfumi et al., 2019). Notably, social norms exist on the platforms but people’s perception of the values vary for a number of reasons, which include platform type, anonymity, and the nature of relationships between friends (Perfumi et al., 2019). Moreover, conformity to social norms in the context of social platforms varies significantly from that of face to face, while social influence therein may be categorized into norms-oriented social influence and information-oriented one. Remarkably, it would be necessary to create a distinction between the two aspects. The implication is that online users who feel that they are anonymous may experience the temptation to disregard the opinions that they could be exposed to. The other implication may be the motive of the users of online platforms. Where the intention is communication at the expense of conformity to social norms, the communicators tend to disregard the norms completely, while they ma ...
1. The Stanford prison experiment studied the psychological effects of perceived social roles by assigning volunteers randomly to "prisoner" and "guard" roles.
2. As the experiment progressed, the guards escalated their aggressive behaviors toward the prisoners through humiliation tactics, despite instructions not to harm them.
3. The experiment was ended after only 6 days because prisoners began to exhibit pathological behavior and nervous breakdowns due to the psychological abuse.
Here is the lecture from the week The article is in this lecture. .docxtrappiteboni
Here is the lecture from the week: The article is in this lecture. Essentially I just need 2 to 3 paragraphs to answer the question above.
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Forming strategies to deal with diversity issues can be a tricky business. The popular approach today is political correctness, which unfortunately, is often neither political nor correct. This is not to say that it is acceptable to behave or speak in a disrespectful manner to or about other persons, or to tolerate overt discrimination against others. What it does mean is that we should be focusing on the underlying power associated with these terms, attitudes, and behaviors. An example is the current view of the use of the n-word. It is considered so demeaning and insulting that it cannot even be spoken aloud, yet everyone knows exactly what the n-word is. The point is that it isn't the word, but rather the cultural understandings and reactions that are conjured up by the single letter
n
. What we have done is to simply replace one word with another without changing the underlying meaning and power of the term. It seems that many think that by making the speaking of the word taboo, the racist meaning behind it no longer exists. Unfortunately, nothing is that simple.
A Class Divided - PBS Frontline Video
Please click on the link to view the PBS Frontline video titled
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To begin, we must look within our own social and cultural understandings. We all have prejudices and ideological values about ourselves and others, and we talked about these in a previous lecture. One of the problems with the politically correct approach is that it labels people whose understandings do not conform to doctrine as either racist or sexist. This amounts to trying to eliminate derogatory stereotyping by applying derogatory stereotypes and is; therefore, just as likely to arouse resentment and resistance in the dominant group as it is in any minority group.
The first step is to overcome the reluctance to admit that we base our reactions to, or understandings of, minority groups on values and assumptions that may not be accurate or factual. As was pointed out earlier in the course, much of what we know comes from a very limited set of information sources. Most people with whom we interact regularly are more like ourselves than not, and we tend to place value and acceptability on those things that are familiar and comfortable. Our educational system has for many years placed White, middle-class, and mostly male ideals, achievements, and values at the core of our curriculums. Much of what is learned about minorities is negative, in the sense that they are presented as subordinate groups who performed menial tasks and are often portrayed as simple, child-like people who needed care and nurturing. Little mention was made of people such as Dr. Charles Drew, Elijah McCoy, Otis Boykin, Garrett Mor.
Persuasive communications contain a variety of attributes intended to enhance persuasion, which could include an attractive source, a message containing convincing arguments, or efforts to make the topic seem personally relevant to the audience.
This document discusses consumer attitudes, specifically reflecting on the concept of consumer attitudes and their relationship to consumer behavior and marketing implications. It examines the trilogy of consumer attitude, which includes the cognitive, affective, and conative components. The cognitive component refers to knowledge and beliefs about an object, the affective component to feelings and emotions, and the conative component to response tendencies. Attitudes can serve utilitarian, value-expressive, ego-defensive, and knowledge functions for consumers. While attitudes influence behavior, companies have difficulty directly influencing consumer purchasing behaviors and should instead provide evidence of benefits, correct misconceptions, offer samples, engage new technologies, and bring innovations to indirectly influence consumer behaviors by altering the components of their attitudes
The document discusses various influencing skills and techniques. It covers topics like persuasion, compliance, propaganda, and resisting influence. Some key persuasion skills discussed include ingratiation, sequential requests like the door-in-the-face technique, rational persuasion using logical arguments, consultation to seek participation, inspirational appeals, coalition tactics, and exchange tactics. It also discusses establishing authority and pressure tactics for compliance, as well as resisting different influence approaches with counter-reasoning or defending your rights.
consumer buying behavior. The process by which individuals search for, select, purchase, use, and dispose of goods and services, in satisfaction of their needs and wants. See also consumer decision making.
Konjungsi koordinatif dan subordinatif lintas bahasaRusdi Noor Rosa
The book, entitled "Konjungsi Koordinatif dan Subordinatif Lintas Bahasa" is a combination of research results and readings on conjunctions contained in several languages. The languages studied in this book are English, bahasa Indonesia, and bahasa Minangkabau. This book pressents a number of syntactic and semantic facts relating to coordinate and subordinate conjunctions used in the three languages. This book, therefore, is very useful for language reviewers, language teachers, language learners, and language observers to see the similarities and differences of cross-language conjunctions. This book may also serve as a reference for conducting studies on conjunctions.
This document provides an overview of pragmatics and summarizes several key concepts in pragmatics. It begins with defining pragmatics as the systematic study of language use in context. It then distinguishes pragmatics from semantics and discourse analysis. Several pragmatic concepts are then summarized in 1-2 sentences each, including speech act theory, conversational implicature, conversational maxims, politeness, presupposition, deixis, and reference and inference. The document aims to introduce some of the main topics and approaches in the field of pragmatics.
Audience Analysis Sections 16.1What Is a.docxrock73
Audience Analysis
Sections 16.1
What Is an Audience Analysis?
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Why Conduct an Audience Analysis?
Public Speaking as
Shared ActivityThe interaction between speaker and audience; speakers jointly create meaning with audiences.Public speaking is an audience-centered activity in which the speaker considers the needs and interest of the audience.Audience analysis is the process of gathering information about the people in the audience so a speaker can understand their needs, values, and expectations.Find an appropriate way to acknowledge and greet your audience.
Choose a
Worthwhile TopicYour topic should reflect regard for the audience; audiences do not want to listen to a speech that is too simple or a topic they already know a great deal about.Many students are tempted to choose an easy topic or a topic they already know a great deal about because it decreases their own workload rather than engaging audience interest.Choose a topic that is interesting enough for you to research and your audience to listen to.
Clarity is ImportantUse straightforward vocabulary and avoid convoluted sentences.
The Risk of ControversyControversial topics are topics about which people disagree.Many controversial topics confront people’s fundamental and closely-held values.There are often more than two perspectives on important controversial topics.How you treat your audience is just as important as how you treat your topic.
Adapting to
Audience NeedsAudiences differ in their perspectives and readiness to accept new ideas.Even in a homogeneous audience, an audience composed of people who are similar to one another, different listeners will understand the same ideas in different ways.Every member of every audience has his or her own frame of reference generated by their unique life experience.
Categories of
Life Experiences Demographic information refers to gender, age range, marital status, race and ethnicity, all of which impact an audience’s perspectives and needs.Socioeconomic status refers to characteristics including income, wealth, level of education, and occupational prestige.Psychographic information involves the beliefs, attitudes, values, and opinions that are most often difficult to predict.
Respecting your audience means that you avoid offending, excluding, or trivializing the beliefs and values they hold.
DiversityRefers not only to racial and ethnic groups, but also to religion, sexual orientation, body size, and physical and mental ability.
Respecting Diverse AudiencesBeing mindful of diversity means being respectful of all people and avoiding racism, ethnocentrism, stereotyping, sexism, ageism, elitism, and other assumptions.It’s easy to assume that people from a given culture are just alike, but they’re not; their social roles, life experiences, and circumstances vary.Frame of reference may be difficult to predict; for instance, we might assume that a successful businessman is primarily interested in p ...
This document discusses theories of politeness from a socio-pragmatic perspective. It outlines Brown and Levinson's influential theory of politeness from 1978, which proposes that politeness arises from people's desire to protect each other's "face" or public self-image. Brown and Levinson identify two types of face - positive face, which is the desire to be approved of, and negative face, which is the desire to not be imposed on. They suggest politeness strategies like indirect speech acts that mitigate potential threats to another's face. The document also reviews other approaches to politeness including social norm, conversational contact, and maxims approaches.
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This document summarizes key aspects of conducting qualitative fieldwork and interviews. It discusses gaining access to field sites, establishing rapport with subjects, negotiating permission, and issues that can arise from cultural differences between researchers and subjects. The document also provides tips for first visits to field sites, using covert or overt research approaches, structuring interviews, and dealing with politically charged settings. The overall goal of fieldwork is to immerse oneself in a site to understand subjects' perspectives through observation, conversation and rapport building.
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Forming strategies to deal with diversity issues can be a tricky business. The popular approach today is political correctness, which unfortunately, is often neither political nor correct. This is not to say that it is acceptable to behave or speak in a disrespectful manner to or about other persons, or to tolerate overt discrimination against others. What it does mean is that we should be focusing on the underlying power associated with these terms, attitudes, and behaviors. An example is the current view of the use of the n-word. It is considered so demeaning and insulting that it cannot even be spoken aloud, yet everyone knows exactly what the n-word is. The point is that it isn't the word, but rather the cultural understandings and reactions that are conjured up by the single letter
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To begin, we must look within our own social and cultural understandings. We all have prejudices and ideological values about ourselves and others, and we talked about these in a previous lecture. One of the problems with the politically correct approach is that it labels people whose understandings do not conform to doctrine as either racist or sexist. This amounts to trying to eliminate derogatory stereotyping by applying derogatory stereotypes and is; therefore, just as likely to arouse resentment and resistance in the dominant group as it is in any minority group.
The first step is to overcome the reluctance to admit that we base our reactions to, or understandings of, minority groups on values and assumptions that may not be accurate or factual. As was pointed out earlier in the course, much of what we know comes from a very limited set of information sources. Most people with whom we interact regularly are more like ourselves than not, and we tend to place value and acceptability on those things that are familiar and comfortable. Our educational system has for many years placed White, middle-class, and mostly male ideals, achievements, and values at the core of our curriculums. Much of what is learned about minorities is negative, in the sense that they are presented as subordinate groups who performed menial tasks and are often portrayed as simple, child-like people who needed care and nurturing. Little mention was made of people such as Dr. Charles Drew, Elijah McCoy, Otis Boykin, Garrett Mor.
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Refusal strategies used by male and female sellers at Pasar Raya Padang
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REFUSAL STRATEGIES USED BY MALE AND FEMALE SELLERS
AT PASAR RAYA PADANG
Rusdi Noor Rosa
FBS Universitas Negeri Padang
Abstract
This article is aimed at finding different strategies used by male and female
sellers while refusing the buyers’ offer. This study was done by using
descriptive research design in which the data related to the object of the
study were collected to answer the research question. The data of this study
are refusals in the bargaining process between sellers and buyers that took
place in Pasar Raya Padang. The finding of the research shows that male
sellers used non performative statement strategy most frequently which
implicitly indicated that they tended to refuse the buyers’ offer in a direct
way. Female sellers, on the other hand, used excuse, reason, and
explanation strategy most frequently which indicated that they preferred to
refuse their buyers’ offer in an indirect way.
Key words/phrases: refusal, refusal strategies, male and female sellers,
descriptive research design
A. INTRODUCTION
Refusal is an unpleasant response
which is usually found in everybody‟s daily
conversation because everybody always
wants their statement to be accepted.
However, different person has different
ideas or beliefs that make them impossible
to always accept other‟s. The more refusals
given by a person the higher possibility to
cause unpleasant feelings between the
speakers. As a result, a good relationship
between them can be broken down. To
avoid such unpleasant condition, the
speakers have to use certain strategy that
eneables them to express their refusals
without hurting other‟s feelings. This is due
to the fact that everybody wants to look
nice in front of others,
Mainly, refusal is a part of discussion
in speech acts, pragmatics. It belongs to
pragmatic study because its uses much
depend on the context of situation.
Different context of situation makes
refusals delivered in various ways. Context
in pragmatics include place, time, distance,
power, and rank of imposition. As these
contexts are unable to cover all of uses of
refusals, another linguistic study that deals
with refusals is sociolinguistics, a study of
language in relation to society.
In sociolinguistics, the context is more
widely opened. Sex, ages, social status,
customs, and beliefs are contexts that
contribute to the way how refusals are
delivered (later in this study called refusal
strategy). One of the influential context that
determine different choice of refusal
strategy is sex. Male and female seem to
have different strategy in expressing their
refusals.
The practice of refusal strategy can be
found in any places, including market. A
market is one of the places where
communication among society takes place.
In this place, the communication happens
between sellers and buyers. The sellers
usually offer their products to the buyers.
They will do anything in order to attract the
buyers‟ interest to buy the products.
Likewise, the buyers will attempt to buy
the products as cheaply as possible. To get
satisfactory price, the buyers will bargain
the price offered by the sellers. In one case,
there is a stuck condition when the buyer‟s
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offer is too low and the sellers think he/she
will not get the profit. It is usual that some
of the customers press the price much
lower than normal. The sellers have their
own trick to face them. Sometimes they try
to persuade or make them believe that the
products have good quality. In such event,
the sellers are targets of requests for the
buyers. The buyers will keep requesting to
the sellers until they get reasonable price,
and the sellers will also keep persuading
the buyers. If they can reach the agreement
about the price, the buyers can take the
products home. In contrast, if the sellers do
not agree with the buyers‟ request, they
will refuse it.
The sellers may have different ways or
strategies in expressing their refusal. The
different strategies used can be influenced
by a sociolinguistic context, sex. Male and
female sellers may use different strategies
while refusing their buyers‟ request. This is
very interesting to be studied since all of
people will face such kind of situation
while doing shopping.
One of the places where this kind of
interaction takes place is a traditional
market, such as Pasar Raya Padang. Pasar
Raya is a central market in Padang where
all of citizen‟s needs, such as food, clothes,
office tools, furniture, and even jewelry,
can be found. Therefore, it is not surprising
that Pasar Raya Padang is visited by
thousands people everyday. They can do
shopping easily in Pasar Raya Padang
because they can get all of their needs only
in one market. Besides, the prices of
products are relatively cheaper from other
markets in Padang. Most of the products
sold there have no fixed price, so the
buyers have a chance to do bargaining with
the sellers. Some of their bargainings are
accepted but some are refused. This study
focuses on sellers‟ refusals to the buyers‟
offer in bargaining process. Specifically,
this study is aimed at finding refusal
strategies used by male and female sellers
in Pasar Raya Padang.
B. REVIEW OF RELATED THEORIES
1. The Concept of Refusal
Refusal can be referred to an action
of not accepting someone or something
because of certain reasons. The main
reason of refusing is usually someone‟s
unwillingness to accept. According to
Wierzbicka (1987:94) refusal means the act
of saying “no”, expressing the addressee‟s
non acceptance, declining of or disagreeing
with a, invitation, request, suggestion or
offer. More clearly, “refusing” means,
saying “no” in response to someone else‟s
request or order, in which he has conveyed
to us that he wants us to do something and
that he expects us to do it.
Nguyen (1992: 13) says refusals are
often played out in lengthy sequences
involving not only negotiation of a
satisfactory outcome, but also face-saving
maneuvers to accommodate the non-
compliant nature of the act. Because of the
face-threatening nature of refusals, they are
often regulated by different cross- cultural
face concerns. Consequently, they may be
exceptionally subtle.
A refusal is generally considered a
speech act by which a speaker “denies” to
engage in an action proposed by the
interlocutor. Refusals are one of a relatively
small number of speech acts which can be
characterized as a response to another‟s act
to a request, invitation, offer, suggestion,
rather than as an act initiated by the
speaker. Because refusals normally
function as a second pair parts, they
preclude extensive planning on the part of
the refiner. And because extensive planning
is limited, and because the possibilities for
a response are broader than for an initiating
act, refusals may reveal greater complexity
than many other speech acts (Chen, Ye, &
Zhang, 1995:121).
Furthermore, Jiayu (2004:30) says
refusing is a speech act which involves the
politeness principle. The studies on refusal
strategies both in interpersonal com-
munications and shopping activities display
that politeness is what people in both
cultures are concerned about, although the
ways in which politeness is manifested are
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diverse due to the differences in social
cultures and language features.
A refusal refers to the situation when
a speaker directly or indirectly says “no” to
a request or invitation. Refusals often
include explanation or reasons why such
refusals are necessary. Based on a
pragmatics perspective, the negotiation of a
refusal may entail frequent attempts at
directness or indirectness and politeness
and impoliteness that are appropriate to the
situation and may vary according to the
social values of a particular culture
(Perriman, 2007:1).
From the explanation above, it can be
concluded that refusal is the act of saying
“no” to other‟s invitation, request,
suggestion or offer. Furthermore, the way
of how refusal is delivered is various
depending on the context where or when
the refusal takes place. The next sub
chapter will talk about some strategies of
refusals.
2. Refusal Strategies
As people delivered their refusals in
various ways, some experts identied those
ways and classified them into some refusal
strategies. (See Beebe, Takahashi, and
Uliss-Weltz's; Garcia, 1992, and Felix-
Brasdefer, 2007). In accordance with the
purpose of this study, the classification of
refusal strategies follows Beebe,
Takahashi, and Uliss-Weltz's (1985). They
classified refusal strategies into fifteen
categories under three general types: direct,
indirect, and adjunct to refusals.
Direct type includes performative,
non performative statement, and mitigated
negative willingness. Performative is
characterized by the exclusive words
indicating refusals, such as refuse, disagree,
etc. Non performative statement is
characterized by the statement of refusals
despite the absence of performative refusal
words, such as no, l can't, and I don't think
so.
Indirect type includes statement of
regret (e.g. I‟m sorry), wish (e.g. I wish I
could accept), excuse, reason or
explanation (e.g. I have to do such a lot of
homework), statement of alternative (e.g.
This one is much better), set condition for
future acceptance (e.g. You should have
called me before you came), promise of
future acceptance (e.g. I will certainly
come next time), statement of principle
(e.g. My mother never accepts gifts), threat
or statement of negative consequences to
the requester (e.g. If you don‟t want to do
it, you can quit the job), criticise the
requester/request (e.g. No shoes cost less
than Rp 20,000), let interlocutor off the
hook (e.g. its OK, I'll be allright), and self
defence (e.g. I can‟t do it myself).
Meanwhile, adjunct to refusals is an
expression that accompanies refusal but
cannot be used to fulfill a refusal alone. It
includes statement of positive
opinion/feeling or agreement (I‟d really
like to...), pause fillers (e.g. uh.., well..,
uhm.., and er...), gratitude or appreciation
(e.g. Thanks), and exclamation (e.g.
goodness).
3. Previous Researches on Refusals
Some researches on refusals have
been done in different languages. Beebe,
Takahashi and Uliss-Weltz (1990) did a
study on the differences between Japanese
ESL learners' and Americans' refusals in
English. Sixty subjects participated in their
study. The study revealed evidence of
pragmatic transfer in the type, order, and
frequency of the semantic formulae used by
the Japanese speakers in the United States.
In general, the Japanese were more inclined
to differentiate their refusals according to
whether they were addressing a higher or
lower status person, whereas the Americans
differentiated according to how well they
knew the addressee (i.e. the level of
familiarity). The Japanese were also less
specific when giving excuses and they
tended to sound more formal in tone.
Another study on refusals was
carried out by Kartomiharjo (1990) in the
East Java province. The study entitled
„Bentuk Bahasa Penolakan‟ (the linguistic
form of refusal utterances) analysed
refusals to invitation, offers and requests.
Social factors were analysed in the
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categories of age, gender, ethnicity
(Javanese and non- Javanese), social status,
closeness of the relationship, environments,
mood, topic of the exchange and
performance. The subjects in the study
were 42 male and 11 female Javanese, and
36 male and 9 female non-Javanese. The
results revealed that people from East Java
were inclined to use `hint', a slight or
indirect indication or suggestion.
Furthermore, Chen, Ye and Zhang
(1995) enquired into the refusal behaviour
of NSs of Mandarin Chinese in the United
States. It was revealed that Lower status
refusers frequently used excuses, while
higher status refusers made less use of
excuses compared to lower status
interlocutors. It was found that the
sequential pattern of exchange was
structured and conventionalised according
to a common script of verbal interaction.
In addition, Dung (1995) analysed
the interlanguage refusal behaviour of
Vietnamese speaking Vietnamese (W),
Vietnamese speaking English (VE) and
Australian native speakers of English (AE).
The results showed that Australians spoke
less and used more straightforward
responses, e.g. no + reason . W refusals
tended to be more elaborate than those of
AEs. Pragmatic transfer was also reported
in this study, as occurring in the
distribution and discourse organizations of
the RSs.
The other research on refusals was
done by Nelson, Al Batal, and El Bakary
(2002). This study investigated the
similarities and differences between
Egyptian Arabic and US English
communication style by focusing on the
speech act of making refusals. A modified
version of the 12-item discourse
completion test (DCT) developed by
Beebe, Takahashi, and Uliss-Weltz was
used to elicit data. The finding of this
research shows that both groups use similar
strategies with similar frequency in making
refusals. They differ, however, in the
frequency of indirect strategies with
Egyptian males using less indirection than
Americans.
C. RESEARCH METHODS
This study was done by using
descriptive design in which the data related
to the object of the study were collected to
answer the research question. The data of
this study were refusals delivered by the
male and female sellers to their buyers. The
data were taken by recording the
conversation between sellers and buyers
that took place in Pasar Raya Padang. Only
the conversations containing refusals were
taken as the source of data in this study.
The data were analyzed by using
classification of refusal strategy proposed
by Beebe, Takashi, & Uliss-Weltz (1985).
D. FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
This study is aimed at finding the
differences between male sellers and
female sellers in using strategies while
refusing the buyers‟ request. In order to
meet this purpose, 30 conversations
between sellers and buyers that took place
in Pasar Raya Padang were collected. From
these conversations, 53 refusals involving
male sellers (26 refusals) and female sellers
(27 refusals) were found. The refusals were
delivered in different strategies which were
all aimed at maintaining a good
relationship between the sellers and the
buyers. The distribution of using refusal
strategy by the male and female buyers at
Pasar Raya Padang is summarized in the
following table.
Table 1. Refusal Strategies Used by Male amd Female Sellers
Types of
Sub-Category
Frequency Percentage
Refusals M F M F
Direct
Performative - - 0% 0%
Non performative Statement 7 3 27% 11%
Mitigated negative willingness - 1 0% 4%
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Indirect
Statement of regret 1 1 4% 4%
Wish - - 0% 0%
Excuse, reason or explanation 5 7 20% 26%
Statement of alternative 4 - 15% 0%
Set condition for future acceptance 1 5 4% 18%
Promise of future acceptance - - 0% 0%
Statement of principle 4 3 15% 11%
Attempt to dissuade interlocutor
a. Threat or statement of negative
consequences to the requester - - 0% 0%
h. Criticise the requester/request - 4 0% 15%
c. Let interlocutor off the hook - - 0% 0%
d. Self defence - - 0% 0%
Adjuncts
to
Statement of positive opinion/feeling
or agreement 4 3 15% 11%
Pause fillers - - 0% 0%
Refusals Gratitude or appreciation - - 0% 0%
Exclamation - - 0% 0%
Total 26 27 100% 100%
The findings show that male sellers
tended to use different refusal strategies
from the ones used by female sellers. The
most frequent refusal strategy used by
male sellers was “Non-performative
statement” that belongs to direct strategy.
Male sellers characterized themselves as
the ones who behave more direct in
refusing the buyers‟ request. They prefered
to directly say “no” when the offer made
by the buyers was not possible to be
accepted; instead of saying “yes” that, in
fact, means “no”. Meanwhile, female
sellers showed that they are more indirect
in refusing the buyers‟ request. Generally,
women are more sensitive than men. This
drives them to think more carefully to
deliver their responses in order not to hurt
other‟s feelings. Instead of directly saying
“no” to the buyers, they tried to indirectly
refuse the buyers‟ request by creating a
situation in which the buyers can
understand why their offers or requests
were refused.
The strategy of refusal which is
dominantly used by female sellers at Pasar
Raya Padang is “Excuse, reason or
explanation”. By employing this strategy,
they tried to generate the buyer‟s
understanding of some conditions that lead
to refusal. This belongs to indirect refusal
because the refusal took place because of
unavoidable conditions. Explanation could
give feeling of satisfaction to the buyers as
well as answer their curiosity of why the
sellers refused their offer. Male sellers also
used this strategy while refusing the
buyers‟ request, but not as frequently as
female sellers did. From 26 refusals made
by male sellers, they used this strategy five
times (20%); meanwhile, female used this
strategy seven times (26%) from 27
refusals. (See table 1). This finding shows
there is no significant difference in the
frequency of using this strategy between
male and female sellers at Pasar Raya
Padang. This finding also indicates that
both male and female sellers at Pasar Raya
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Padang, while refusing their buyers‟
request, prefer to use this strategy.
A very obvious difference between
male and female sellers in refusing the
buyers‟ offer/request is the use of the
strategy of “Set condition for future
acceptance”. The findings show that
female sellers used this strategy five times
(18%), while male sellers only used it once
(4%). This strategy belongs to indirect
refusal because the sellers did not
completely refuse their buyers‟ request;
rather they opened the opportunity for the
acceptance in the future after some
conditions are fulfilled by the buyers.
Female sellers at Pasar Raya Padang used
this strategy especially in the process of
bargaining. They used it to increase the
price offered by the buyers because, in the
bargaining process, the buyers liked
offering the price as low as possible. To
avoid of a great loss and unfriendly
impression with the buyers, they offered a
condition (a limit of the lowest price of
their product). They promised to accept the
request when the buyers met the condition.
What follows is an example from the data
that shows how this strategy was used by
female sellers at Pasar raya Padang.
Source of Data 1
Setting : Bag Store at Pasar Raya
Padang
Participants : Female Seller and
Female Buyer
B: Tas canel hijau tu bara hargonyo Ni?
(How much does this channel bag
cost?)
S: Rp.150.000.
(Rp.150,000)
B: Ndak kurang lai, Ni?
(May I have it cheaper?)
S: Bara? Kalau ndak berbandrol ko bisa
kurang.
(How much? If there‟s no price label,
this product can cost lower.)
B: Rp.80.000.
(Rp.80,000)
S: Labiah Rp.100.000 la.
(More than Rp.100,000, please.)
B: Ndak bisa di bawah Rp.100.000, Ni?
(How about under Rp.100,000?)
S: Labiah Rp.100.000 la.
(More than Rp.100,000, please.)
In this source of data, the female
seller refused the buyer‟s request two
times (written in underlined words).
Nevertheless, the refusals were delivered
in the exactly similar words and similar
strategy. The refusal strategy performed by
the seller in this source of data is known as
“Set condition for future acceptance”. By
saying “More than Rp. 100,000, please.
(Labiah Rp.100.000 la.)”, the speaker
indicated that she refused the request;
nevertheless, she promised to accept it if,
in the next bargaining, the buyer wanted to
pay for the bag more than Rp.100,000. The
next bargaining in the previous sentence
means the future acceptance.
Another obious difference is
female sellers at Pasar Raya Padang used
the strategy of “Criticise the
requester/request” four times (15%), but
male selers did not use it at all. Female
sellers used this strategy to implicitly show
that their buyers‟ request was illogical as
well as impossible to accept. Women are
usually so sensitive that makes them easily
annoyed. Therefore, when the price
offered by the buyers was too low, female
sellers felt bad and annoyed, but, at the
same time, they also had to serve their
buyers firmly. Instead of giving bad words
to the buyers, they prefered to criticise
their request by giving examples or
comparing the sale price of the same
product in other stores. At this point, they
can reveal what they fele, and buyers were
not badly hurt. Here is an example from
the data.
Source of Data 8
Setting : Clothes Store at Pasar
Raya Padang
Participants : Female Seller and
Female Buyer
B: Baju lalok iko bara Ni?
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(How much is this pajama?)
S: Yang ma? Kalau yang bahan kaus
Rp.55.000, bisa kurang, dingin kausnyo.
(Which one? If made of cotton, it‟s Rp.
55,000, you may bargain, the cloth is
cool.)
B: Rp.55.000? Ndak kurang Ni?
(Rp. 55,000? May I have it cheaper?)
S: Kurang saketek
(Just a bit.)
B: Rp.20.000?
(How about Rp. 20,000?)
S: Rp.20.000? Ma ado daster kini! Labiah
Rp.30.000 lah. Kalau daster Rp.20.000
ndak ado.
(Today no pajama costs Rp.20,000!
More than Rp.30,000 please? No
pajama costs Rp.20,000)
The refusal strategy used by the
female seller in this source of data is
known as “Criticise the requester/request”.
promise of future acceptance. The seller
delivered her refusal by saying “Today, no
pajama costs Rp.20,000 (Rp.20.000? Ma
ado daster kini)”. This statement means
that she crticised the buyer because her
request was too low (Rp.20,000 for a
pajama), and she would never get a pajama
in any other stores with Rp.20,000.
Still an obvious difference between
male and female sellers, the strategy of
“Statement of alternative” was not used at
all by female sellers, but was used by male
sellers four times (15%). Male sellers at
Pasar Raya Padang would like to give an
alternative to the buyers when their offer
were refused rather than set condition for
future acceptance or criticise the buyers‟
offer. Male sellers tried to match the
buyers‟ offer by offering another similar
product with lower quality. It means that
the buyers‟ offers would be accepted if
they were addressed to another product.
The example can be seen in the following
data.
Source of Data 19
Setting : Bag Store at Pasar Raya
Padang
Participants : Male Seller and Female
Buyer
B: Caliak tas tu Da?
(May I see that bag?)
S: Yang ma? Ko?
(Which one? This one?)
B: Ndak, yang merah tu Da.
(No, that red one)
S: Yang iko?
(This one?)
B: Yo Da. Bara tu Da?
(Exactly, how much is it?)
S: Rp.150.000.
(Rp.150,000)
B: Maha bana ma Da. Rp. 80.000 se yo
Da?
(How expensive! How about Rp.
80,000?)
S: Yang hitam ko ndak baa do, kalau yang
merah ko, ndak dapek do, Diak.
(You can only buy this black one with
that price, but not for the red one.)
In this source of data, the male
seller used the strategy of “Statement of
alternative” to refuse his buyer‟s offer. His
statement “You can only buy this black
one with that price, but not for the red one.
(Yang hitam ko ndak baa do, kalau yang
merah ko, ndak dapek do, Diak.)” means
he would like to accept the buyer‟s offer if
the price was addresed to the black bag.
This strategy contains the idea “Everything
has a price, and only the right price for the
right thing”.
This study also found that refusals
may take place four times in one
transaction. The buyers kept on delivering
their offer despite having been refused for
more than once. In this occasion, the
sellers had to use various strategies in
order that they did not dissappoint the
buyers. This situation happened in the
following data.
Source of Data 5
Setting : Clothes Store at Pasar
Raya Padang
Participants : Female Seller and
Female Buyer
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B: Caliak mukena Ni.
(A veil, please)
S: Yang ma mukenanyo? Katun jepang,
katun silki, organdi?
(Which one? Japanese cotton, silk, or
organdy?)
B: Kalau yang biru tu?
(How about the blue one?)
S: Yang biru tu Rp.350.000.
(The blue one costs Rp. 350,000.)
B: Rp.350.000? ndak kurang lai Ni?
(Rp. 350,000? A bit lower, please?)
S: Bisa, ko katun jepang kainnyo, dingin
kainyo, memang maha kainnyo.
(Yes you can, the material is Japanese
cotton, it‟s cool, but expensive.)
B: Di bawah Rp.100.000 ndak nio ni?
(How about lower than Rp.100,000?
May I?)
S: Di bawah Rp.100.000 ndak amuah do,
diateh Rp.200.000 lah.
(Less than Rp. 100,000 is not
acceptable, more than Rp. 200,000,
please.)
B: Di ateh Rp.200.000? ndak kurang Ni?
(More than Rp. 200,000? Lower down
please?)
S: Bara kecek adiak bara? Cubo uni
danga. Itu ancak kainnyo katun jepang
(How much did you say? Let me hear
you. The cotton is good, Japanese cotton)
B: Rp.80.000 ndak nio?
(How about Rp. 80,000?)
S: Rp.80.000 ndak bisa do, diateh
Rp.200.000 lah.
(Rp.80,000 is not deal, more than Rp.
200,000 please.)
In this source of data, there are four
refusals (written in underlined words)
performed by the speakers: the female
seller and the female buyer. The first
strategy performed by the seller is known
as “statement of positive opinion/feeling or
agreement”. In that refusal, the seller
indirectly expressed her refusal by giving a
statement of positive opinion or agreement
to the offer eventhough the situation called
for refusal. She began her refusal by
saying “Yes” which carries positive
meaning and indicates that the offer will
be accepted. However, the following
words “the material is Japanese cotton (ko
katun japang kainnyo), it‟s cool (dingin
kainnyo), and expensive (memang maha
kainnyo)” formulated some conditions that
need to be fullfilled if the price is lowered.
By using this strategy, the seller expected
that the buyer would not be hurt because
of her refusal which, therefore, can
established a good relationship between
them..
The second and fourth refusals
were delivered in the same strategy,
known as promise of future acceptance. By
saying “Less than Rp.100,000 is not
acceptable (dibawah Rp.100.000 ndak
amuah do), more than Rp.200,000, please
(labiah Rp.200.000 lah)”, the seller
indicated that she refused the buyer‟s offer
which was less than Rp. 100,000, but, at
the same time, she promised to accept it if,
in the next offer, the buyer wants to pay
more than Rp.200,000.
The third refusal, the seller used
the strategy of “excuse, reason or
explanation” to show her refusal. By
saying “How much did you say? (bara
kecek adiak?)” and “let me hear you (cubo
uni danga)”, the seller showed her refusal.
In order to strengthen her refusal (why she
refused the buyer‟s offer), she gave
reasons as well as explanations about the
quality of the product by saying “the
cotton is good; Japanese cotton (itu ancak
kainnyo katun jepang)”. This explanation
encouraged the buyer‟s understanding of
the reason of refusal; therefore, the refusal
did not take place because of profit matter,
but as a result of the quality of the veil.
For the general finding, at Pasar
Raya Padang, female sellers used more
indirect strategies than male sellers in
refusing the buyers‟ requests. 20 (74%) out
of 27 refusals performed by female sellers
were delivered through indirect strategy,
meanwhile, male sellers expressed their 15
(58%) out of 26 refusals through indirect
strategy. This statistic can be seen in Table
2 below.
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Table 2. The general use of refusal strategies
Types of Male Sellers Female Sellers
Refusals Frequency Percentage Frequency Percentage
Direct 7 27% 4 15%
Indirect 15 58% 20 74%
Adjunct to
4 15% 3 11%
Refusals
Total 26 100% 27 100%
The table also shows that male
sellers used more direct strategies than
male sellers. The other strategy, adjunct to
refusals, is less used by both male and
female sellers because it employs vague
information that will possibly lead to
misunderstanding between the sellers and
the buyers.
E. CONCLUSION
Male and female sellers at Pasar
Raya Padang used a slightly different
strategy of refusing their buyers‟ offer.
Non performative statement that belongs
to direct refusal strategy is used more
frequently by male sellers. Meanwhile,
female sellers often look more indirect in
refusing their buyers‟ offer, they use the
strategy of “excuse, reason or explanation”
most often. However, some of strategies
are not used by both male and female
sellers in their refusals. This includes
“performative”, “threat or statement of
negative consequences to the requester”,
“let interlocutor off the hook”, “self
defence”, “pause fillers”, “gratitude or
appreciation”, and “exclamation”. These
strategies are not used because of the place
of the study, Pasar Raya Padang. In the
market, sellers usually want to look nice in
front of their buyers eventhough they
express their refusals to the buyers‟ offer.
They always want to establish a good
relationship with their buyers.
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