COOPERATIVE AND POLITENESS PRINCIPLES IN UTTERANCES

Asri Syawalia,Asrul Munazar,Dini Wulansari

doi:10.33019/scripta.v2i2.60

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A cooperative and polite language is required to achieve the goal of conversation, either to deliver an idea or express feelings. In spite of that, the rule of cooperative principle proposed by Paul Grice is different from the rule of politeness principle proposed by Geoffrey Leech. Therefore, this study aims to find out the application of both principles and the relation between the two of them in utterances. To conduct this study, an American movie titled Isn't It Romantic was chosen as the subject. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative. The findings show that there are 53 data of the application of cooperative and politeness principles. Therefore, there is a correlation between the cooperative and politeness principles in the conversations of this movie. The result of this study is expected to be a guideline to create an ideal conversation in society.

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Linguistics is a study of language consisting of a lot of rules on how a language is used
The rule of cooperative principle proposed by Paul Grice is different from the rule of politeness principle proposed by Geoffrey Leech
The modesty maxim in politeness principle is able to be applied at the same time with the maxim of quality in cooperative principle as long as the application is true to the reality or what the character feels

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Linguistics is a study of language consisting of a lot of rules on how a language is used. One of the branches in linguistics is pragmatics which is the study of language in its context (Birner, 2013:2). There are several subfields in pragmatics including speech act, deixis, reference, presupposition, conversation structure, cooperative principle, politeness principle, and many others. Based on Leech, pragmatics should focus more on principle rather than rule such as in grammar (2014:34). The first kind of principle is the cooperative principle. It rules how a conversation between the speaker and the listener can be effective. Effectivity means that the speaker and hearer can cooperatively understand each other

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