Language Politeness: Pragmatic-Sociocultural Perspective

Rika Ningsih, Endry Boeriswati, Liliana Muliastuti

2019

Abstract

This study is aimed to explain the perspective of language politeness in terms of the sociocultural background of the Indonesian Language and Literature Education Study Program students at the Universitas Islam Riau (UIR). By applying the Phenomenology approach, data was collected through interviews with 44 students about language politeness which was then analyzed by applying the Miles & Huberman’s analysis techniques. The results of the study showed that someone is said to be polite when s/he does not offend other people’s hearts (the other person) in speaking, speaking in a soft tone, speaking based on contexts; who is the interlocutors, where the conversation takes place, whether in a serious or relaxed atmosphere, what topics are being discussed, and consider the norms in speaking. It can be concluded that the students are polite in speaking based on their respective cultural backgrounds with regard to contexts. The results of this study imply everyone with different cultural backgrounds has different language politeness.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Ningsih R., Boeriswati E. and Muliastuti L. (2019). Language Politeness: Pragmatic-Sociocultural Perspective.In Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS, ISBN 978-989-758-405-3, pages 426-431. DOI: 10.5220/0008999904260431

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icels19,
author={Rika Ningsih and Endry Boeriswati and Liliana Muliastuti},
title={Language Politeness: Pragmatic-Sociocultural Perspective},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS,},
year={2019},
pages={426-431},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008999904260431},
isbn={978-989-758-405-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society - Volume 1: ICELS,
TI - Language Politeness: Pragmatic-Sociocultural Perspective
SN - 978-989-758-405-3
AU - Ningsih R.
AU - Boeriswati E.
AU - Muliastuti L.
PY - 2019
SP - 426
EP - 431
DO - 10.5220/0008999904260431