Forms of Violation of Politeness in Communicating Local Political Figures in West Sumatra

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10.2991/icla-18.2019.95How to use a DOI?

Keywords

speech, violation, politeness, cooperation, local politics

Abstract

Local political figures in West Sumatra are role models for people in areas such as communication performance. Communication politeness is important to be used by local and national political figures. In this regard, the research on the communication performance of local political figures both at the regional and national levels needs to be examined from aspects of politeness. The purpose of this study describes the form of violations of communication politeness in terms of the principles of courtesy and the principle of cooperation. This type of research is descriptive qualitative research to examine the forms of communication politeness violations of local political figures in West Sumatra in terms of the principles of courtesy and the principle of cooperation. The data of this research are oral speeches of local political figures in West Sumatra with the community in the form of oral sources. Data collection methods and techniques used in this study are methods of reading and recording techniques. Data recording is a speech recorded by local political figures contained in the youtube application online. Data analysis techniques are (1) data identification, (2) data classification, (3) data interpretation, and (4) conclusion. The research findings are as follows. First, there were four forms of violations of maxims in courtesy principles namely speech that violated the maxim of wisdom, violated the maxim of praise, violated the maxim of humility, violated the maxim of agreement. Secondly, three forms of violations were found in the principle of cooperation namely speech that violates the maxim of quality, violates the maxim of the relationship, and violates the maxim of the way.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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AU  - Ermanto Ermanto
AU  - Agustina Agustina
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TI  - Forms of Violation of Politeness in Communicating Local Political Figures in West Sumatra
BT  - Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2018)
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