Positive Politeness Strategy in Women’s Directive Speech Acts on Facebook

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10.2991/icalc-18.2019.43How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Positive Politeness Strategy, Directive Speech Acts, Women, Facebook

Abstract

This study covers the positive politeness strategy in directive speech acts among adult woman in facebook. It is a qualitative study. The subjects were adult women at age of 25-35 years. The purposes of the research are: (1) to describe the directive speech acts applied by the adult women when communicating in facebook, (2) to identify different kinds of directive speech acts used by the adult women in facebook, (3) to describe the positive politeness stategy applied by the adult women in communicating on facebook. The data were collected through observation, interview, and documentation. The primary data are the utterances of the adult women when up dating status and commenting on facebook. The design of this study is content analysis. The data were analyzed by Simak, Libat, Cakap instrument. The data were read and analyzed to describe the directive speech act based on Kreidler's theory. Then they were identified as the function of the utterance. Next, they were identified the politeness strategy by guided Brown and Levinson Theory. To dig more information the researcher participates in facebook activities such as commenting and giving the emoticon. Moreover, the interview was also conducted to achieve the goal of the research. Credibility test was done through extended observation and member checks. It is found that women apply positive politeness strategy, there are (1) Using in-Group Marking, (2) Joking, (3) Presupposing commonground, (4) Avoiding disagreement, (5) small talk.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Rosita Ambarwati
AU  - Joko Nurkamto
AU  - Riyadi Santosa
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - Positive Politeness Strategy in Women’s Directive Speech Acts on Facebook
BT  - Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Arts, Language and Culture (ICALC 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 294
EP  - 299
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icalc-18.2019.43
DO  - 10.2991/icalc-18.2019.43
ID  - Ambarwati2019/02
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