The Characteristics of Language Politeness in Students’ WhatsApp Messages to Lecturers
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.200323.058How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- characteristics, language politeness, WhatsApp
- Abstract
This study is aimed to describe the characteristics of language politeness in students’ WhatsApp (WA) messages to their lecturers. The research method used was a descriptive method with data consisting of 460 WA messages from 75 students. From this study, it is revealed that 88.7% of the characteristic of students’ WA message structure begin with greetings, an apology for sending WA message, self-introduction, message, and thanks with greetings. 82.6% of WA messages are characterized by conversational language style in which they are a fully structured idea which represented using subject and predicate with several omissions in a certain part. The contents of the WA messages consist of 20% of the final project topics such as clarifying supervising schedule, discussing the content of final project, informing the schedule of final project presentation; 66.6% of WA messages contain lecture topics such as informing rescheduled lectures, asking about assignments, asking about score, permission for being absent; and 13.4% of WA messages contain other topics such as felicitations and condolences. Thus, the WA messages sent by the students of Politeknik Negeri Bandung to their lecturers show the characteristics of language politeness.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Sri Nur Yuliawati AU - Hazma AU - Krisna Yudha Bakhti PY - 2020 DA - 2020/03/25 TI - The Characteristics of Language Politeness in Students’ WhatsApp Messages to Lecturers BT - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Arts Language and Culture (ICALC 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 506 EP - 511 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200323.058 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200323.058 ID - Yuliawati2020 ER -