The Strategies of Cross-Culture Politeness in the Interaction between MadureseJavanese Parents and Teachers Based on Disciplinary Principle

Abstract

The symptoms of psychological conflict between the Madurese parents and Javanese primary school teachers oftenarise. It happens as the result of politeness they express in different culture interactions. This research focused on the politenessstrategies they expressed in the interaction based on the principles of disciplinary as one of the principles of politeness. The dataform included speech and the context of the speech they used to interact in anywhere at any time. The data was transcribed fromspeech events when they were involved in the interactions and audio-visual recordings. The analysis was performed byinterpreting each unit of speech and its context with an ethnographic approach and verstehen. Based on the principle ofdisciplinary, Madurese-Javanese cross-cultural politeness in the interaction of parents and primary school teachers expressed by(1) strategies (1) formal (F), (2) formal and contextual (FC), (3) formal indirect speech act (FI), (4) the formal and contextualindirectspeech acts (FCI), and (5) an indirect speech act (I). At the level of basic strategy, a formal strategy used: 44.44%, indirectspeech act strategies: 33.33%, and contextual strategies: 22.22%. This has shown that in expressing politeness, motivated by adesire to enforce the speech disciplinary, both parents and teachers are still use a lot of attention to words or other linguisticelements. Also, politeness expression was strengthened by the attitudes and behavior within utterance.