Abstract
Politeness is a visible feature in communication. A conversation is regarded as a polite conversation and an impolite one occasionally. The context is a meaningful aspect to acknowledge this meaning. It covers age, situation, place, relationship, etc. Mode of communication may also be acknowledged as a context. Along with the globalization era, mode of communication also grows and thrives to be diverse modes such as telephone and social media which enable people to communicate in face-to-face communication. One of the renowned modes is Facebook. In Facebook, as it is known that there are miscellaneous areas of people creating some groups to communicate where one may post or/ and comment on other’s wall. What the members do in point of fact is like what they do in the real conversation. As in the real society, they should also consider how to be polite in virtual communication. Thus, this paper is to discuss the politeness principles & strategies in Facebook conversation. The excerpts of the conversation are obtained from a professional group named Teachers Voices (TV). The group's members were academicians such as lecturers, teachers, graduate students and others who are interested in English language studies.
Highlights
A virtual world is a ubiquitous aspect of modern countries
AND DISCUSSIONS This section presents the types of speech acts, politeness principles and politeness strategies that are identified on Teachers Voices (TV)
The results of the analysis show that there are some politeness strategies employed in the conversation
Summary
A virtual world is a ubiquitous aspect of modern countries. It is called as animaginary environment by Crystal (2006: 12) which people can enter to engage in text-based fantasy social interaction. The speech act theory proposes a popular principle for a better conversation that may be carried out by the speaker and addressee. In a more recent development, the cooperative principle has been refined in two main ways - politeness principle and relevance theory.In this paper, we will limit the discussion only on the politeness principle It is as suggested by Leech (1983) is a way of explaining why people feel the need to be indirect in conveying what they mean (Finch, 2000: 161). It will be clarified further under the discussion about politeness theory below.
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