THE FORMS OF POLITENESS APPLIED BY ENGLISH STUDENTS IN COMMUNICATION TO THEIR THESIS ADVISOR LECTURERS VIA WHATSAPP

Maharani, Widya Wardah and Arasuli, Arasuli and Ildi, Kurniawan (2022) THE FORMS OF POLITENESS APPLIED BY ENGLISH STUDENTS IN COMMUNICATION TO THEIR THESIS ADVISOR LECTURERS VIA WHATSAPP. Undergraduated thesis, Universitas Bengkulu.

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Abstract

This research aims to determine the forms, scales, and factors of students' politeness in communication to their thesis advisor lecturers via WhatsApp. The research design was descriptive qualitative research. The subject of this research was 54 2017 English students' text messages to their thesis advisor lecturers who were selected from classes A, B, and C by using the purposive sampling technique. The data were analyzed based on Kushartanti’s forms of politeness theories, Leech’s scales of politeness theory, and factor affecting politeness theories by Brown & Levinson's. From the findings of this study, there are four forms of politeness used by students, namely pronominal sentences, indirect sentences, opening sentences, and word appreciation sentences. The most widely used forms of politeness are opening sentences and appreciation words. Five politeness scales were also found, namely the cost-benefit scale, the optionally scale, the indirectness scale, the authority scale, and the social distance scale. The social distance scale is the most widely used. All politeness data are influenced by social distance and relative power, and there is no size of imposition politeness factor found. There are also two forms of impoliteness in this study, directness and without using the word appreciation and some students are classified as impolite based on the optionality scale. Students use all existing forms of politeness because they use Indonesian politeness forms and Indonesian culture, which considers these forms a sign that sentences in a conversation are considered polite. The form of politeness used by students is influenced by the social distance politeness scale and vice versa. Based on the result, it can be concluded that most of the students have used politeness form when communicating with their lecturers through WhatsApp text messages. Keywords: Politeness, Forms, Scales, Factors of politeness, WhatsApp

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