Positive Politeness on Strategies of Expressing Apologies by English Department Students of UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung

  • Wardoyo C
N/ACitations
Citations of this article
44Readers
Mendeley users who have this article in their library.

Abstract

Foreign language students usually find difficulties at the interpersonal communication level when interacting with other speakers. Students should be familiar with the cultural values while they performed speech acts. Expressing apology is one of the important topic in verbal politeness. This paper tries to describe what are the strategies of English department students of UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung in expressing apologies and what are the factors that influence those strategies. This paper uses qualitative method; the researcher chooses descrip- tive interpretative technique for analyzing data. The data sources are students of UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, the data are taken by using DCT (Discourse Completion Test). Keywords: pragmatics, politeness, speech acts, strategies of expressing apologies. Abstrak Pembelajar bahasa asing biasanya mengalami kesulitan pada tingkat komunikasi interper- sonal saat berinteraksi dengan orang lain. Mahasiswa ketika belajar bahasa harus juga men- genal nilai-nilai budaya saat mereka melakukan tindak tutur. Mengekspresikan permintaan maaf adalah salah satu topik penting dalam kesantunan verbal. Makalah ini mencoba untuk mendeskripsikan apa saja strategi mahasiswa jurusan Bahasa Inggris UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung dalam mengungkapkan permintaan maaf dan faktor apa saja yang mempen- garuhi strategi tersebut. Makalah ini menggunakan metode kualitatif; Peneliti memilih teknik deskriptif interpretatif untuk menganalisis data. Sumber data siswa UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, datanya diambil dengan menggunakan DCT (Discourse Completion Test). Kata kunci: pragmatik, kesantunan, tindak tutur, strategi permintaan maaf 1Adab

Cite

CITATION STYLE

APA

Wardoyo, C. (2017). Positive Politeness on Strategies of Expressing Apologies by English Department Students of UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung. Buletin Al-Turas, 23(2). https://doi.org/10.15408/bat.v23i2.5786

Register to see more suggestions

Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.

Already have an account?

Save time finding and organizing research with Mendeley

Sign up for free