Appreciation Attitude through Politeness Strategy Regarding to Australia Espionage Allegations Case to Indonesia

Abstract

Australia is one of Indonesia’s neighbors. It can be said both countries have a fairly close geographical distance. This condition creates the mutul understanding to have good bilateral cooperation in some sectors, namely politics, economics, tourism, education, etc. In 2013,  the relationship has a conflict and this is triggered by Indonesia’allegations against Australia about spying scandal to President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the first lady of Indonesia. This condition brings up suspense betwen two countries. Julian Bishop, foreign minister of Australia, at a doorstop media in Bali give positive appreciation  through her statement when the journalists want to know about Australia’s demeanor for this case.  Appreciation  is one way to express someone’s feeling or attitude towards surrounding things. Appreciation can be delivered positively or negatively. And this attitude is one of strategy applied in politeness strategy through the word/vocabularies selection.This descriptive study aims to identify and analyze the types of appreciation attitude found in the media door stop from Australia government in 2013.