In-directness and Politeness in American English and Saudi Arabic Requests: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Tawalbeh, Ayman; Al-Oqaily, Emran Ismail

doi:10.5539/ass.v8n10p85

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“…This article contains a description of the language politeness of the public leaders in the act of speech in Facebook. Some previous research on language politeness in speech acts, among others, conducted by Anggraeni (2005), Manaf (2010) Purnomo (2011, Tawalbeh and Al-Oqaily (2012), Susanto (2014), Codreanu and Dust (2014), Vega and Azókar (2014), Manaf and Amir (2015), and Yazdanfar and Bonyadi (2016). The results of the study can be explained as follows.…”

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Language Politeness of Executive Leader in Facebook

Juita¹,

Ermanto²,

Manaf³

2019

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2018)

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Articles about language politeness in speech acts have been frequently studied by linguists, but the question of how politeness of executive leader in facebook has not been answered. This article was written to describe the politeness of the executive leader's language in communication on facebook in terms of (1) the kind of politeness principles used and (2) the context of the use of the principle of politeness. The data source of this article is the writings of the executive leader, namely the Regent of West Sumatra Province, Indonesia which is used for communication on facebook. The data was collected by downloading the written text used for communication on facebook by the executive leader on Youtube. Data were analyzed qualitatively by content analysis method and by paying attention to the theory of speech acts, speech strategies, and language politeness. The results of the study show the following. Firstly, all principles of politeness are used in speech acts on the face book with different frequency of use by the executive leader. Second, the context of speech situations in the form of the speakers' objectives in speech acts form the basis of the primary consideration for the selection of a particular principle of assistance in a speech.

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Language Politeness of Executive Leader in Facebook

Juita¹,

Ermanto²,

Manaf³

2019

Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2018)

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“…The study of politeness in speech acts in the last ten years is done by Anggraeni (2005), Manaf (2010), Purnomo (2011, Tawalbeh and Al-Oqaily (2012), Susanto (2014), Codreanu and Debu 2014), Vega and Azókar (2014), Manaf and Amir (2015), and Yazdanfar and Bonyadi (2016). The results of these studies can be explained as follows.…”

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“…The speech strategies of native speakers of Arabic and native speakers of English have been studied by Tawalbeh and Al-Oqaily (2012). Codreanu and Debu (2014) examined politeness strategies of speech acts in Romanian, English, and Hebrew.…”

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Hedging in Refusal Speech Act

Manaf¹,

Ermanto²

2018

Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2017)

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Abstract-The refusal speech act is quite risky to lose the face of the addressee. As far as observation of the author, refusal speech act has been frequently studied, but hedging in refusal speech act has not been thoroughly studied. Thus, this article was written to explain hedging in the refusal speech act. The source of the data was the Indonesian language spoken by native Indonesians. Data were collected by observational techniques and interviews towards native Indonesians in Indonesia. Data were analyzed qualitatively based on the speech act theory and politeness. The results of this study were, first, there are three main forms of hedging in the refusal speech act in the Indonesian language; second, a hedge is used to shape the politeness in a speech act; third, in general, the speakers used more than one hedge in a speech act; fourth, the use of form and quantity of hegdes in a speech act affects the level of politeness of speech acts; fi fth, the use of the form and the quantity of hedges were adjusted to the level of face threatening acts.

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“…There have been some researchers studied about the Politeness strategies. The first, Tawalbeh & Al-Oqaily (2012), conducted a study on in-directness and politeness in American English and Saudi Arabic Request: A Cross Culture Comparison. They found that conventional indirectness was the most prevailing strategy employed by the American sample.…”

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The Politeness Strategies of Negation Used by English and Buginese

Daud

2018

ELS-JISH

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A good communication is a cooperate communication, but when someone wants to deny someone or something, it can be FTA (Face Threatening Acts) in some situations, so she/he needs to express it in polite way to save the face of each through the use of the politeness strategies. This research is aimed to investigate (1) the politeness strategies used by Buginese and American people in using the negation expression; (2) the influence of social and cultural relationship on the politeness strategies used by the Buginese and American people when using negation expression. This was a comparative study between Buginese and English language in using negation. The research used the qualitative descriptive approach. English and Buginese data were obtained through DCT, questionnaire. The research result indicates that three politeness strategies are used by American and Buginese people in using negation namely: the bald on record, positive politeness, and negative politeness. The American people tend to use those strategies in polite way to negate something by being more friendly and using the casual language with other people. On the other hand, Buginese people tend to use formal language as the politeness strategies in making negation. The significant differences between both languages can be seen from the indirect and direct strategies in making negation. English tends to use direct strategies, while Buginese tends to apply indirect negation. The research also indicates that the other aspects influencing the politeness strategies used are; gender, social situation, social distance or intimacy, social status, relationship between interlocutors. Buginese people indicate the politeness by giving the formal treatment because they are more hierarchical and pay more attention to use honorific address term and politeness marker such as iye'. On the other case, American people are more friendly and emphasize the solidarity.

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In-directness and Politeness in American English and Saudi Arabic Requests: A Cross-Cultural Comparison

Cited by 43 publications

References 22 publications

Language Politeness of Executive Leader in Facebook

Language Politeness of Executive Leader in Facebook

Hedging in Refusal Speech Act

The Politeness Strategies of Negation Used by English and Buginese

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