Impoliteness in EFL Complaints: Exploring its Intentions and Motivating Factors

Wijayanto, Agus; Hikmat, Mauly Halwat; Prasetyarini, Aryati

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“…It is in line with Kienpointner (in Wijayanto, Hikmat & Prasetyarini, 2018) that has reported that specific emotions can induce impoliteness. This also supports Spencer-Oatey (as cited in Wijayanto, Hikmat & Prasetyarini, 2018) who has averred that negative emotions can regulate linguistic behaviour. Self-emotion mismanagement which is how not being able to hold back anger can make the speaker be assessed as being impolite.…”

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“…It is found that male is frequently producing impolite utterance than female does. Regarding the impoliteness intention, a study carried out by Wijayanto, Hikmat and Prasetyarini (2018) reports that Indonesian learners of English frequently use harsh and explicit complaints. The studies have revealed inappropriate use of complaints by L2 learners.…”

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Impoliteness in English as a Foreign Language Virtual Classroom: The Strategies and Its intentions

Amaliah¹,

Muslim²

2021

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)

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The adaption of online learning for whole level education all over the world is happening along this year, then each university student has different expression to reveal what they mean in the virtual classroom. However, the interaction in online learning atmosphere is needed, the students might have strategies and intentions in using impoliteness. Therefore, this present research aimed at investigating the experience of university students in using impoliteness strategies and its intentions at the current learning condition: virtual classroom. The qualitative descriptive method is used by distributing a questionnaire for 3 students of 7th semester in undergraduate class of 2020/2021 selected purposively. According to the findings of this research, in virtual classroom, students tend to use impoliteness strategies and have intentions behind that. The result shows that the responses from 3 students, as last year student in university, indicated that they were using impoliteness strategies in virtual classroom which including bald on record impoliteness, positive impoliteness, negative impoliteness, sarcasm and withhold politeness. Moreover, the intention of using impoliteness is either directly or indirectly because it can be triggered by a number reasons in a specific context.

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Section: (S3) Because I Will Straight Tell My Friends What I Want or Not To Dosupporting

confidence: 90%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impoliteness in English as a Foreign Language Virtual Classroom: The Strategies and Its intentions

Amaliah¹,

Muslim²

2021

Proceedings of the Thirteenth Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2020)

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“…According to Culpeper (1996), impoliteness can be used as "a means to an end rather than an end itself" (p. 146); hence, there are purposes of using impoliteness as teaching, equipping, grudge showing, power showing, counseling, warning, imposing, threatening, upholding to disciplines, developing a personality, to inrush, self-defending, gaining one's rights which Spencer-Oatey's (2002) called 'sociality rights,' etc. (Wijayanto et al, 2018). Culpeper (2011) proposed a framework for the conventionalized types of impoliteness formulas, which is particularly advantageous in empirical studies.…”

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“…There are many pieces of research that analyzed impoliteness in many contexts. Culpeper (1996), for instance, investigated this concept in "army recruit training" (Wijayanto et al, 2018). He analyzed the intentions of impoliteness used by male officers toward female recruits.…”

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Impoliteness Formulas, Triggers, and Purposes to Refusal as Employed by Iraqi English Learners

Qassim¹,

Abbas²

2022

AWEJ

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The present study aims at scrutinizing the impoliteness types, causes, and purposes utilized by Iraqi English language learners when refusing marriage proposals. Thus, it attempts to answer the questions: (1) what are the impoliteness formulas used by the Iraqi learners of English in refusing marriage proposals?, and (2) What are their impoliteness triggers/causes and the purposes? The study is significant in bridging the gap that few linguistic types of research concentrate on studying intentionality and emotions allied with impoliteness. Data were collected from 35 Iraqi learners of English responding to 6 situations of marriage. The data were analyzed using Culpeper’s (2011) formulas of impoliteness and Bousfield’s (2007) impoliteness triggers and intentions. The findings revealed that the most regular impoliteness formulas were insults and pointed criticisms/complaints. Regarding impoliteness triggers, the Iraqi learners’ responses reflected anger and disapproval as the most common triggers of impoliteness. Lastly, impoliteness was utilized as an instrument of insulting, quipping, and showing grudge when refusing the marriage situations; however, some impoliteness occurred as a counseling technique. The study concludes with some recommendations for future works.

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“…Danish learners of English sound direct as they rarely use complaint modifications (Trosborg, 1995). Javanese learners of English frequently use rhetorical questions without incorporating hedges to mitigate them (Wijayanto, Prasetyarini, & Hikmat, 2014). Similarly, Indonesian learners of English rarely mitigate their complaints, particularly when they use rhetorical questions and imperative sentences to express accusations, blames, reproaches, and annoyance (Pratiwi, 2013).…”

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Impoliteness in EFL: Foreign Language Learners’ Complaining Behaviors Across Social Distance and Status Levels

2017

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A growing body of literature has investigated impoliteness in many domains. Nevertheless, little research has examined impoliteness done by foreign language learners. Impoliteness used in interlanguage complaints by English as a foreign language learners was observed. The effects of interlocutors' different status levels and social distance on the use of impoliteness were analyzed. Empirical data were elicited by means of oral discourse completion tasks from 50 Indonesian English as a foreign language learners in Central Java, Indonesia. The overall direction of the findings showed trends that status levels and social distance between interlocutors prompted different frequencies and strategies of impoliteness. The frequent use of impolite complaints was instigated by a number of factors such as the learners' understanding about the speech act in question, their perceptions on the social distance and status levels of interlocutors, and the nature of the research instrument.

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Impoliteness in EFL Complaints: Exploring its Intentions and Motivating Factors

Cited by 7 publications

References 21 publications

Impoliteness in English as a Foreign Language Virtual Classroom: The Strategies and Its intentions

Impoliteness in English as a Foreign Language Virtual Classroom: The Strategies and Its intentions

Impoliteness Formulas, Triggers, and Purposes to Refusal as Employed by Iraqi English Learners

Impoliteness in EFL: Foreign Language Learners’ Complaining Behaviors Across Social Distance and Status Levels

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