Violation Principles by Politicians in the Discourse of Jakarta Election 2017 at Online Portal News

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10.2991/iclle-18.2018.64How to use a DOI?

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principles of politeness; speech acts; political discourse Political

Abstract

The Jakarta Election 2017 was a phenomenal political event from many perspectives including in aspect of language use as political tool. Therefore, this study aimed to reveal violations of the principle of politeness in the speech of politicians and their implicatures on the political discourse of Jakarta Election in online news portal. This research used a qualitative approach with descriptive method. Analyzing data was conducted by applied Miles and Huberman approach with three stages: reducing data, presenting data, and drawing conclusions. The results showed that politicians are dominant in violating the principle of politeness with high potential to threaten the face of the hearers or the intended parties. Violations of the principle of politeness occurred in six maxims. Maxim of praise was the most dominant and the least violated was the maxim of generosity and inferiority. The enormous occurrence of maxim violation resulted in the act of speech becoming unpolite.

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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  - Widya Pangestika
AU  - Agustina Agustina
AU  - Ngusman Abdul Manaf
PY  - 2018/12
DA  - 2018/12
TI  - Violation Principles by Politicians in the Discourse of Jakarta Election 2017 at Online Portal News
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Language, Literature, and Education (ICLLE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 382
EP  - 385
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iclle-18.2018.64
DO  - 10.2991/iclle-18.2018.64
ID  - Pangestika2018/12
ER  -