Managing Respect among English Students in Social Media Conversations (Whatsapp Chats) through Polite Expressions

Mahmud, Murni (2020) Managing Respect among English Students in Social Media Conversations (Whatsapp Chats) through Polite Expressions. The Asian EFL Journal, 27 (3.1). pp. 253-276. ISSN 1738-1460

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Abstract

Abstract This paper explores the expressions employed by English students in managing their respect in their conversation in social media, in this case the WhatsApp chats. This paper was based on the descriptive-qualitative study conducted at Universitas Negeri Makassar in 2018. The subject of this research is the English students of the Graduate Program of Universitas Negeri Makassar. To collect data, the chats of the English students in WhatsApp when communicating to each other were collected and transcribed. Politeness str ategies of the English students were explored and discussed in relation to the “face-saving view” of Brown and Levinson (1987). Findings show that English students applied several strategies in expressing politeness in the ways they were asking questions, requesting, and refusing. The strategies can be seen in the forms of greetings, thanks, apologies, some identity markers, such as the use of addr ess terms and some terms from the students’ regional language. In addition, the students applied humor and small talk as the ways to be polite. Those strategies were used each other to support their politeness expressions in order to create good conversations. Findings from this study become a reference for study of politeness in a different context of speech situation. This study shows that although English students were subject to high technology of online communication, some strategies to show respect are still applied for the sake of good interaction and mutual understanding.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	polite expressions, politeness, politeness strategies, WhatsApp chats, social media
Subjects:	FAKULTAS BAHASA DAN SASTRA KARYA ILMIAH DOSEN Universitas Negeri Makassar > KARYA ILMIAH DOSEN
Divisions:	KOLEKSI KARYA ILMIAH UPT PERPUSTAKAAN UNM MENURUT FAKULTAS > KARYA ILMIAH DOSEN KARYA ILMIAH DOSEN
Depositing User:	Herling HR Sahade
Date Deposited:	07 Jul 2021 01:41
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2021 01:41
URI:	http://eprints.unm.ac.id/id/eprint/20704

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