An Analysis of Politeness Principles Used By Students of English Department in Classroom Discussion (A Study Conducted to the Sixth Semester Students of IAIN Curup in the Academic Year of 2018/2019)

Kusuma, Noprian Abdi and Hidayah, Jumatul and Edy, Sarwo (2019) An Analysis of Politeness Principles Used By Students of English Department in Classroom Discussion (A Study Conducted to the Sixth Semester Students of IAIN Curup in the Academic Year of 2018/2019). Sarjana thesis, IAIN Curup.

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This research was aimed to know the types of politeness principles and the dominant type of politeness principle used by students in classroom discussion. To gather the information, the researcher used observation technique. Moreover, the researcher used descriptive research using mixed method which will involve both qualitative and quantitative design to analyze the types of politeness principles and the dominant type of politeness principle used by students in classroom discussion. Those aspects were analyzed descriptively based on the related theory of politeness principles as postulated by Leech. After collecting the data, the researcher identified and classified the data into every politeness principle. In this research, there were six maxims which were performed by the students, in different themes or conditions ongoing discussion. They were Tact maxim, Generosity maxim, Approbation maxim, Modesty maxim, Agreement maxim, and Sympathy maxim. For the tact maxim, the students tried to minimize cost to others and maximize benefit to others. In generosity maxim, the students tried to minimize benefit to self and maximize cost to self. In approbation maxim, the students tried to minimize dispraise of others and maximize praise of others. In modesty maxim, the students tried to minimize praise of self and maximize dispraise of self. In agreement maxim, the students tried to minimize disagreement between self and other and maximize agreement between self and other. The last maxim was sympathy maxim, whereby in this maxim, the students tried to minimize antipathy between self and other and maximize sympathy between self and other. The overall six maxims were indicated by several themes which emerged in the discourse of discussion. They were: requesting, ordering, asking, giving argumentation, offering, responding, and ending discussion. This research also found out that tact maxim was the most dominant one used by the students during discussion. The reason lying beyond this dominance was in light of that the students wanted to make their statements acceptable as polite statements by the hearers or partners in every condition of speaking or communication, and to increase their politeness insofar as the communication took place.

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