The Performance of Language Politeness in Directive and Expressive Speech Acts from West Sumatra’s Female DPRD Members on Social Media

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10.2991/assehr.k.210325.035How to use a DOI?

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language politeness, female politician, directive and expressive speech acts, the principle of politeness

Abstract

This article was written to explain the politeness of language expressed by women political figures, especially members of the West Sumatra legislative (DPRD) on social media. In this paper, the discussion is limited to (1) the functions of directive and expressive speech acts, (2) the principle of politeness found in the two types of speech acts. The data of this research are in the form of utterances published by the DPRD members on their social media accounts. The data were obtained by documenting the speech of women politicians in their social media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) and collecting it in a database. Furthermore, the data that was already in the form of documents (speeches) were analyzed qualitatively with a content analysis design based on pragmatic theory, specifically the theory of speech acts and politeness. Furthermore, the data that was already in the form of documents (speeches) were analyzed qualitatively with a content analysis design based on pragmatic theory, specifically the theory of speech acts and politeness. The results are as follows. First, in directive speech acts there are three functions including inviting/ suggesting, begging, and reminding, whereas in expressive speech acts there are four functions, particularly praising, expressing gratitude, compliments, and condolences. Second, the principles of politeness found are in the form of tact, agreement, wisdom, sympathy, generosity and modesty maxim. Each function contained in each type of speech act has a marker which is also a marker for politeness.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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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TY  - CONF
AU  - Novia Juita
AU  - Ermanto
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/03/26
TI  - The Performance of Language Politeness in Directive and Expressive Speech Acts from West Sumatra’s Female DPRD Members on Social Media
BT  - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language and Arts (ICLA 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 191
EP  - 198
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210325.035
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210325.035
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