POLITENESS IN INTERLANGUAGE REFUSALS BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN INDONESIA

POLITENESS IN INTERLANGUAGE REFUSALS BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN INDONESIA

This paper is a part of a larger scale interlanguage pragmatic study exploring politeness involved in refusals conducted by the English teachers in East Java, Indonesia. The data were elicited by discourse completion tasks (DCT), from 38 English teachers, (n=14 males and n=24 females). The empirical...

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Main Author: Maya Hartuti
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Muhammadiyah University Press 2017-08-01
Series:Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra
Online Access:http://journals.ums.ac.id/index.php/KLS/article/view/4948
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spelling doaj-8b06fcae0f534aa08b082c38e39315552020-11-24T20:55:04ZengMuhammadiyah University PressKajian Linguistik dan Sastra0852-96042541-25582017-08-01271486010.23917/kls.v27i1.49483456POLITENESS IN INTERLANGUAGE REFUSALS BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN INDONESIAMaya Hartuti0SMPN 1 Pilangkenceng, MadiunThis paper is a part of a larger scale interlanguage pragmatic study exploring politeness involved in refusals conducted by the English teachers in East Java, Indonesia. The data were elicited by discourse completion tasks (DCT), from 38 English teachers, (n=14 males and n=24 females). The empirical data of politeness strategies were analyzed by Brown and Levinson’s (1987) theory. The findings showed that the EFL teachers applied two semantic formulae indirect and direct strategies in conjunction to adjuncts across three initiating acts of refusals (invitations, offers and suggestions). When declining invitations and suggestions, they mostly applied positive politeness, but when refusing offers they predominantly used bald on record.     Keywords: Politeness, interlanguage pragmatics, refusal strategyhttp://journals.ums.ac.id/index.php/KLS/article/view/4948
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POLITENESS IN INTERLANGUAGE REFUSALS BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN INDONESIA
Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra
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title POLITENESS IN INTERLANGUAGE REFUSALS BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN INDONESIA
title_short POLITENESS IN INTERLANGUAGE REFUSALS BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN INDONESIA
title_full POLITENESS IN INTERLANGUAGE REFUSALS BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN INDONESIA
title_fullStr POLITENESS IN INTERLANGUAGE REFUSALS BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN INDONESIA
title_full_unstemmed POLITENESS IN INTERLANGUAGE REFUSALS BY ENGLISH TEACHERS IN INDONESIA
title_sort politeness in interlanguage refusals by english teachers in indonesia
publisher Muhammadiyah University Press
series Kajian Linguistik dan Sastra
issn 0852-9604
2541-2558
publishDate 2017-08-01
description This paper is a part of a larger scale interlanguage pragmatic study exploring politeness involved in refusals conducted by the English teachers in East Java, Indonesia. The data were elicited by discourse completion tasks (DCT), from 38 English teachers, (n=14 males and n=24 females). The empirical data of politeness strategies were analyzed by Brown and Levinson’s (1987) theory. The findings showed that the EFL teachers applied two semantic formulae indirect and direct strategies in conjunction to adjuncts across three initiating acts of refusals (invitations, offers and suggestions). When declining invitations and suggestions, they mostly applied positive politeness, but when refusing offers they predominantly used bald on record.     Keywords: Politeness, interlanguage pragmatics, refusal strategy
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