The analysis of positive and negative politeness used by participants in news article” (original) (raw)

KARDI NURHADI ABSTRACT In the academics perpective, newspaper is seen not only as the source of information, but also it can be used as the source of knowledge. It is an effective media to present the new studies in a scientific field and giving the positive contribution for the progress of the discipline. In language learning newspaper can be used as a media to improve our language ability. In terms of pragmatics, it is possible to find out pragmatics problems especially politeness. This paper focus on the analysis of pragmatics namely positive and negative politeness. The data is taken from the news article, there were five item of article selected. The analysis is done by seeing the expression and statement used by participant in news article. It is based the quotation and statement of the participant. Then, the pragmatics analysis show that, there were some of politeness problem found in the news article. There were five of politeness fact for each the article. The politeness problem including the positive politeness (compliment) and negative politeness. It is possible to involve face threatening act between the participant. The positive and negative politeness have it own purposes. Brown and Levinson (1987) described that, writing politeness is interpreted as a strategy (or series of strategies) employed by a speaker to achieve a variety of goals,such as promoting or maintaining harmoniuos relations. As a matter of fact, the pragmatics politeness is not only found in spoken text but also it can be found in written text. KEYWORDS: pragmatics problem, positive and negative politeness, news article, face threatening acts ( FTA’s), the participant.