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Rethinking Politeness Principle in Pragmatics Study

Journal of Pragmatics Research

The study focuses on Politeness Principle found in the movie Kung Fu Panda 1 using Leech’s theory.Leech defines politeness as forms of behaviour that establish and maintain comity. He proposed six types of politeness maxim such as tact maxim, generosity maxim, approbation maxim, modesty maxim, agreement maxim, and sympathy maxim. The objectives of this study are to classify the type of politeness maxim used in the movie, to know the frequency of the most and the least maxim used in the movie, and to explain how the figures in the movie used politeness principle in the communication.The writers used descriptive analysis in analyzing the politeness principle used in the movie and used a simple quantitative analysis to know the frequency of the politeness principle. The result of the study shows that all politeness maxim is used in the movie with the frequency tact maxim 10 utterances (9,8%), generosity maxim 5 utterances (4,9%), approbation maxim 24 utterances (23,5%), modesty maxim 1...

The Pragmatic Concept of Politeness and Face Work by Different Linguistic Scholars

2021

In this review article an attempt was made to deconstruct the pragmatic concept of politeness and face workfrom the perspectives of different linguistics authorities and their frameworks. In addition, it highlights how face work and politeness are related and function together in certain social contexts.The critical review convers various dimensions and concepts relevant to various aspects in the aforementioned frameworks. The review yielded concepts which could be used to find the expression of politeness and face work in different cultures and languages of the world.

The Realization of Positive Politeness Strategies in Language: The Politeness Theory of Brown and Levinson

2009

Politeness gains a great deal of interest in the past twenty-five years. Much has been written on politeness principle and theories. The politeness theory postulated by Penelope Brown and Stephen C. Levinson was originally published in 1978 and later expanded and republished in 1987 under the title Politeness: Some Universals in Language Usage is considered the most important theory that almost all the linguists depend on in their writing on this subject. This work consists of two parts. The first part is their fundamental theory concerning the nature of 'politeness' and how it functions in interaction. The second part is a list of 'politeness' strategies (positive and negative) with examples from three languages: English, Tzeltal, and Tamil. The purpose of the present paper is to tackle the realization of positive politeness strategies in language in English language only.

Politeness Strategies through Language Power and Style-Based Communication

2015

It is reasonable to highlight that approving the use of intra-lingual and extra-lingual components means justifying the signs of one’s politeness strategies to have appropriate communication. It would be rather different, however, when the scope is within the students’ writing skills. This paper focuses on the student’s implementation of those linguistic components as seen in their work assigned in Mass Media Communication (Journalism) class of the English Language Education Study Program of Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta. Not only does the discussion engage with the course objectives such as being able to make use of the language of news and the nature of investigative report, but it also involves the burning question of how politeness strategies portray such an appropriate application of the two linguistic components. Analysing the students work is, thus, an unavoidable method to use. This research paper is also grounded on the Indonesian indigenous wisdom sarujuk sithik-edh...

On Linguistic Politeness Theory: Robin Lakoff’s Theory of Politeness, Brown and Levinson’s Theory of Politeness, Geoffrey Leech’s Theory of Politeness

CENTRAL ASIAN JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE, 2022

Linguistic politeness has occupied a central place in the social study of language; even it has been the subject of intensive debate in sociolinguistics and pragmatics. A lot of linguistic scholars have carried out studies on linguistic politeness in a wide range of cultures. As a result, several theories have been proposed on linguistic politeness and have been established as scholarly concept. The major aim of this paper is to review the literature on linguistic politeness as a technical term. It will present some of the most widely used models of linguistic politeness in literature. It also tries to gloss the basic tenets of different theoretical approaches, the distinctive features of one theory versus another. There are some concepts of politeness that will become the subject of discussion of this article. These concepts are proposed by (1) Robin Lakoff, (2) Penelope Brown and Steven Levinson (3) Geoffrey Leech.

Language Politeness: Pragmatic-Sociocultural Perspective

Proceedings of the International Conference on Education, Language and Society, 2019

This study is aimed to explain the perspective of language politeness in terms of the sociocultural background of the Indonesian Language and Literature Education Study Program students at the Universitas Islam Riau (UIR). By applying the Phenomenology approach, data was collected through interviews with 44 students about language politeness which was then analyzed by applying the Miles & Huberman's analysis techniques. The results of the study showed that someone is said to be polite when s/he does not offend other people's hearts (the other person) in speaking, speaking in a soft tone, speaking based on contexts; who is the interlocutors, where the conversation takes place, whether in a serious or relaxed atmosphere, what topics are being discussed, and consider the norms in speaking. It can be concluded that the students are polite in speaking based on their respective cultural backgrounds with regard to contexts. The results of this study imply everyone with different cultural backgrounds has different language politeness.

Pragmatics of Impoliteness and Rudeness

There is a great deal of overlap between the two concepts of impoliteness and rudeness. Despite the fact that both refer to the offensive behavior, there is a main difference between the two terms. This paper is devoted to reveal that difference, which is a matter of intentionality, clarifying which one of them is intentional and which is not. Besides, it is intended to examine these two pragmatic concepts in a specific extract chosen carefully from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion (1913) by applying Culpeper's (2005) model of impoliteness especially his types of impoliteness 'affective impoliteness, coercive impoliteness and entertaining impoliteness', on one hand, and Segarra's (2007) classification of rudeness types including: rudeness of word, rudeness of action and inaction rudeness, on the other hand. Therefore, the researchers will provide an adequate account of impoliteness and rudeness as spic-and-span linguistic phenomena highlighting their meanings, definitions and types, as well as the difference between them. Taking into account the fact that understanding politeness is indispensible to comprehend impoliteness, the researchers of this study will also explicate politeness with its prominent theory 'Brown and Levinson's (1987) face-saving theory'.

The-Pragmatics-of-Politeness

Politeness is a topic on which people have very different opinions (and “people,” in this case, includes linguistic scholars and researchers). According to one view, politeness is a superficial and dispensable adornment of human language, rather like icing on a cake. For others, including myself, it is a deeper phenomenon, some- thing that human communicators would find it hard to do without. 1 Many children learning their native language soon discover the importance of saying things like please and thank you, which are insisted on by their parents in the process of social-ization—becoming “paid-up” members of human society. This reminds us that po-liteness is a social phenomenon—and yet a social phenomenon largely manifested through the use of language.