Politeness Principles Expressed by Minangkabau Migrants in Traditional Market: A Cultural Pragmatic Study

Ely Hayati Nasution, Roswita Silalahi, Deliana

2018

Abstract

Politeness is a social as well as a universal phenomenon involving language as its representation to be measured. Massive globalization and developing technology have contributed to the migration of people and the language used by the speakers as well as the politeness applied. This paper aims at analyzing the politeness principles represented by Minangkabau migrants in Halat traditional market in the city of Medan. This research was the combination of library and field research by applying descriptive qualitative method focused on a cultural pragmatic study supported with documentation, in-depth interview and questionnaire. It involved 12 (twelve) migrant sellers and buyers as the population and 3 (three) of them were selected as the sample. The transcribed text obtained from the conversation happened between migrant sellers and buyers was selected as the main data and the result of an in-depth interview and questionnaire was treated as additional data. The research found 6 (six) politeness maxims proposed by Leech (2014) were found in the conversation involving MK migrants in the selling and buying process, yet the violation of maxims also occurs. It shows that globalization and technology contribute much to the language politeness of migrants Minangkabau in their daily life.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Nasution E., Silalahi R. and Deliana. (2018). Politeness Principles Expressed by Minangkabau Migrants in Traditional Market: A Cultural Pragmatic Study.In Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR, ISBN 978-989-758-449-7, pages 1864-1870. DOI: 10.5220/0010104618641870

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosteerr18,
author={Ely Hayati Nasution and Roswita Silalahi and Deliana},
title={Politeness Principles Expressed by Minangkabau Migrants in Traditional Market: A Cultural Pragmatic Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,},
year={2018},
pages={1864-1870},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010104618641870},
isbn={978-989-758-449-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference of Science, Technology, Engineering, Environmental and Ramification Researches - Volume 1: ICOSTEERR,
TI - Politeness Principles Expressed by Minangkabau Migrants in Traditional Market: A Cultural Pragmatic Study
SN - 978-989-758-449-7
AU - Nasution E.
AU - Silalahi R.
AU - Deliana.
PY - 2018
SP - 1864
EP - 1870
DO - 10.5220/0010104618641870