Politeness and Impoliteness in Directives: A Study on the Students-Lecturers Interaction

Keywords

politeness, impoliteness, directives speech acts, verbal interaction

Abstract

Today student-lecturer interaction for supervising and consultancy has been shift from a minimum face-to-face interaction to a maximum distance one. It is due to the fast growth and development of cell-phone technology. Such way of interaction requires the students to keep performing politeness and to keep away from impoliteness for a better interpersonal contact. In fact, they frequently perform impolite speech acts, especially in directives which require the lecturers to do something. The study is aimed at investigating the politeness strategies performed by the students in realizing directive speech acts. The impoliteness factors of the directive are also investigated. The sources of data are the students who have thesis consultancy at the Universitas Nusantara PGRI Kediri. The analysis technique of pragmatics consisting of ‘means-end’ and ‘heuristic’ analysis are used in the study. Such technique is employed on the steps of compiling, disassembling, reassembling, interpreting, and concluding. The results reveal that the politeness strategies performed are much more negative politeness rather than positive politeness and the impoliteness or types of face threat are accidental threat to face mostly happened rather than incidental and/or intentional face threat. The study brings fort some implications for the students, such as it shows them how to speak appropriately to their lecturers or supervisors, it tells them how to ask and/or have them as the senior to do something in appropriate manner, and it encourages them to maintain a good sound relation with them anyway.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Suhartono Suhartono
AU  - Joko Nurkamto
AU  - Sumarlam Sumarlam
AU  - Sri Marmanto
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - Politeness and Impoliteness in Directives: A Study on the Students-Lecturers Interaction
BT  - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 310
EP  - 316
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25906102
ID  - Suhartono2018/11
ER  -