Leech’s Politeness Principle Used by Teachers in English Language Teaching

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211102.119How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Politeness; Teacher; English Language

Abstract

This study investigates the types and forms of politeness principle used by the teachers in English language teaching. Further, it also aims at finding the types and forms of politeness principles that are frequently used by the teachers. This study focuses on analyzing all utterances containing Leech’s politeness principle used by the teachers. In collecting the data, this study uses the documentation technique. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive analysis method. The result of this research showed that there are nine types of Leech’s politeness principles: tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim, agreement maxim, sympathy maxim, feeling reticence maxim, opinion reticence, obligation of S to O, and obligation of O to S. While the forms of Leech’s politeness principle found in this study are declarative, interrogative and imperative.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Dwi Santoso
AU  - Fajar Indah Nuraini
AU  - Kasiyarno
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/16
TI  - Leech’s Politeness Principle Used by Teachers in English Language Teaching
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Research in Social Sciences and Humanities (ICoRSH 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 878
EP  - 885
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211102.119
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211102.119
ID  - Santoso2021
ER  -