LANGUAGE POLITENESS USED BY POLITICIANS IN KOMPAS NEWSPAPER

Eni, Farli La (2024) LANGUAGE POLITENESS USED BY POLITICIANS IN KOMPAS NEWSPAPER. Sarjana thesis, Universitas Khairun.

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Abstract

Farli La Eni. 2023. Language Politeness Used by Politicians in Kompas Newspaper. Thesis, English Education Study Program, Department of Language and Arts Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Universitas Khairun. Supervisor (1) Saiful Latif, S. Pd., M. Hum and Supervisor (II) Dr. Ali Ajam, S. Pd., M. Pd. The purpose of this study is to find out what maxims are used by politicians and to find out the most dominant maxims used by politicians in the Kompas newspaper. The methodology used in this research is descriptive qualitative method by using Content Analysis approach. The main data source is the politicians' utterances contained in the political and law columns in Kompas. The data analysis technique consists of data reduction, data presentation and conclusion drawing. The result of this study, the researcher found that there are 3 maxims of language politeness proposed by Leech, namely the Tact Maxim amounted to five data, the Approbation Maxim amounted three data and the maxim of agreement amounted one data, and the dominant maxim in this study is the Tact maxim. The reason is because the maxims of tact are implemented by directive and commissive speech, the politicians use a lot of speech that contains directive speech and commissive speech. Another reason is because most politicians have reduced the benefit for themselves and maximized the benefit for the interlocutor. Keywords: maxims, politeness, politicians, Kompas newspaper.

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