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The Characteristics of Language Politeness in Students’ WhatsApp Messages to Lecturers

Authors
Sri Nur Yuliawati, Hazma, Krisna Yudha Bakhti
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Sri Nur Yuliawati
Available Online 25 March 2020.
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200323.058How to use a DOI?
Keywords
characteristics, language politeness, WhatsApp
Abstract

This study is aimed to describe the characteristics of language politeness in students’ WhatsApp (WA) messages to their lecturers. The research method used was a descriptive method with data consisting of 460 WA messages from 75 students. From this study, it is revealed that 88.7% of the characteristic of students’ WA message structure begin with greetings, an apology for sending WA message, self-introduction, message, and thanks with greetings. 82.6% of WA messages are characterized by conversational language style in which they are a fully structured idea which represented using subject and predicate with several omissions in a certain part. The contents of the WA messages consist of 20% of the final project topics such as clarifying supervising schedule, discussing the content of final project, informing the schedule of final project presentation; 66.6% of WA messages contain lecture topics such as informing rescheduled lectures, asking about assignments, asking about score, permission for being absent; and 13.4% of WA messages contain other topics such as felicitations and condolences. Thus, the WA messages sent by the students of Politeknik Negeri Bandung to their lecturers show the characteristics of language politeness.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts Language and Culture (ICALC 2019)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
25 March 2020
ISBN
10.2991/assehr.k.200323.058
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/assehr.k.200323.058How to use a DOI?
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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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