EXPLORING POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH SEMINAR SETTING

Nurjanni B, Nurjanni B (2018) EXPLORING POLITENESS STRATEGIES IN ACADEMIC RESEARCH SEMINAR SETTING. S1 thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI MAKASSAR.

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Abstract

This study investigates the use of politeness strategies by four graduate students as presenters in academic research seminar setting as well as their factors. Therefore, the research questions for this study are (1) what are types of politeness strategies used by the graduate students as presenters in research seminar setting? (2) what are the factors that influence the different politeness strategies used by the graduate students as presenters in research seminar setting? The aims of the study are (1) to find out the types of politeness strategies used by the graduate students as presenters in research seminar setting, (2) to find out the factors that influence the different politeness strategies used by the graduate students as presenters in research seminar setting. This study applied descriptive qualitative method. The subjects of the research are the graduate students of State University of Makassar. Four research seminar forums were recorded by using audio/video recorder to record all the activities in seminar setting and analyzed based on the Brown and Levinson’s theory about politeness strategies. The first finding shows that there are three types of politeness strategies used by four graduate students during their research seminar based on theory of Brown and Levinson (1987) namely Bald on Record, Positive Politeness and Negative Politeness. Positive Politeness was concluded as the most frequent strategy, whereas Bald on Record was concluded as the least frequent strategy. Futhermore, the researcher extends Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Strategies that are used by the presenters, namely giving appreciation as a sub category of negative of politeness. The second finding shows that the factors influencing the use of politeness strategies were social distance, relative power and rank of imposition. Additionally, the researcher adds three new factors that affect the using of politeness strategies in research seminar setting, namely religion, culture and situation. Keywords:Politeness strategies, influencing factors, academic research seminar

Item Type:	Thesis (S1)
Subjects:	PASCASARJANA > BAHASA INGGRIS (S2)
Divisions:	PROGRAM PASCASARJANA
Depositing User:	UPT PERPUSTAKAAN UNM
Date Deposited:	21 Aug 2018 06:57
Last Modified:	21 Aug 2018 06:57
URI:	http://eprints.unm.ac.id/id/eprint/10392

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