Abstract
This study reports on politeness in directive speech acts appearing within the proceedings of the local parliament for Sukoharjo, Indonesia. The aim is to explain the politeness strategies used to convey intended persuasive forces during parliamentary discourses. Drawing upon the pragmatic qualitative approach, this study examined 18 parliamentarians and data on their previous utterances’ form, function, meaning, and context in the proceedings. Using data collected through observation, records, and documentation, it looks at how the politicians acted. The results show that directive acts represent the main performance, with 154 tokens of illocution and 44 directive speech acts for politeness. Politeness strategies to perform directive speech acts are colored with on record, positive politeness, and aversion-to-acting negative politeness. The characters for positive politeness include inviting-gentle-direct, repressing-gentle-direct, suggesting-gentle-indirect, repressing-gentle-indirect, gentle-indirect, and respecting direct. This study implies pragmatic analysis in a different setting where an emphasized degree of formality is required. Suggestions are made to compare or contrast with utterances in less formal interactions, such as in the negotiations between a buyer and seller, and in religious circumstances like sermons in a mosque, church, or colloquial proceedings.
Highlights
The subject of this research is the speech acts performed by members of the Parliament Assembly in Indonesia, focusing on the use of politeness strategies in directive speech acts
This study reports on politeness in directive speech acts appearing within the proceedings of the local parliament for Sukoharjo, Indonesia
The results reveal 154 utterances of illocution, 44 directive speech acts of politeness, the shape of directive utterances, the strategy used to perform directive speech acts of politeness, and the context of the utterances when viewed through the pragmatic approach
Summary
The subject of this research is the speech acts performed by members of the Parliament Assembly in Indonesia, focusing on the use of politeness strategies in directive speech acts. 461), “Most activities performed by politicians are done through the avenue created by language.”. Parliamentarians promote their views through various speech acts in order to influence their colleagues during parliamentary debates and convince the public about their points of view. These expressions should be delivered in a procedural manner, as is customary in parliamentary standards and the system it uses. It is crucial for politicians to be skilled with using politeness strategies in their choice of language to realize this goal (Palonen, 2016)
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