POLITENESS, SPEECH ACT, AND DISCOURE IN SASAK COMMUNITY
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.62107/mab.v11i1.48Abstract
Politeness, speech act and discourse have become an interest area of language use in context. Attention has been drawn to the universality of politeness strategies across the culture. This study examines the nature of pattern of communication in terms of politeness, speech acts and discourse in Sasak speech community. The subject of the study is 1 Tuan Guru giving religious speech in Sikur village. Participant observation is used as the method of data collection in this study. A video recording was used to collect data. Result of the study shows that reminding and suggesting are not the acts of indicating or threatening addressees’ negative face, but positive strategies used to minimize the threat for addressees’ positive face and negative one as a means of saving addressees’ negative face. These three variables were interrelated to decipher the nature of speech pattern of language use in the Sasak speech community. The notion of face should be analyzed according to norms and cultural values of such acts in different speech communities. Hence, the universality of communicative action and the type of speech act in a given speech community are crucial variable to scrutinize the language use in contextDownloads
References
Austin, J.L. (1962). How To Do Things with Words. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
Bach, K., & Harnish, R. (1984). linguistic Communication and Speech Acts. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Brown, P., and Levinson, S. C. (1987). Politeness. Some universals in Language Use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Durkheim, E. (1995). The Elementary Forms Religious Life (New Eds). New York: Free Press.
Ide, S. (1989). Formal Forms and Discernment: Two Neglected Aspects of Universals of Linguistics Politeness. Multilingua, 8, 223--248.
Goffman, E. (1967). Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face to Face Behaviour. Garden city, New York: Anchor Books.
Grice, H. P. (1975). Logic and Conversation. In P. Cole & J. Morgan (Eds), Syntax and Semantic 3, Speech acts (pp. 41--58). New York: Academic Press.
Lakoff, R. (1973). The Logic of Politeness or Minding p’s and q’s.Chicago Linguistic Society, 8: 292--305.
Leech, G. N. (1983). Principles of Pragmatics. London & New York: Longman.
Matsumoto, Y. (1988). Re-examination of The Universality of Face: Politeness Phenomena in Japanese.Journal of Pragmatics, 12, 403--426.
Nwoye, O. G. (1992). Linguistic Politeness and Socio-Cultural Variations of The Notion Of Face.Journal of Pragmatics, 18, 309--328.
Pan, Y. (1995). Power Behind Linguistic Behaviour: Analysis of Politeness Phenomena in Chinese Official Settings. Journal of language and social psychology.
Searle, J. (1969). Speech acts. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.
Wood, L. A. and Kroger, R.O. (1991). Politeness and Forms of Address. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 10, 145--168.
Watts, R. J. (2003). Politeness: Key Topics in Sociolinguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
- Author grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal’s published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
- Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.
- Every accepted manuscript should be accompanied by "Copyright Transfer Agreement"prior to the article publication.
