Abstract
One of the prominent issues in pragmatics is politeness. Politeness can manifest in two actions, verbal and non-verbal communication. This study aimed to analyze the lecturer's and the students' non-verbal communication (NVC) in supporting the realization of Brown & Levinson's politeness strategies in English classroom interaction at Universitas Muhammadiyah Purworejo. This study explains the lecturer’s and students’ NVC in supporting the realization of bald on record strategy, positive politeness strategy, negative politeness strategy, off-record strategy, and don’t do the face-threatening act (FTA) strategy in English classroom interaction. In this study, the researchers applied qualitative research. The subjects were one English lecturer and students. The objects were the lecturer's and the students' utterances during the English learning process. The methods the researchers used to analyze the data were Brown & Levinson's (1987) politeness strategies theory and Novinger's (2001) NVC theory. The findings showed that politeness strategies were used by the lecturer and students with the total frequency of 559 times, namely bald on record, positive politeness (dominantly used), negative politeness, off-record, and don’t do the FTA (the least used). Besides, in supporting the realization of politeness strategy, the dominantly used methods of NVC were chronemics, kinesics, and vocalic. In conclusion, politeness strategies are crucial in maintaining the relationship and creating a comfortable environment in the EFL classroom. NVC can support performance that cannot be expressed in words.
Highlights
Communication is the exchange of ideas and information (Richards and Schmidt, 2010)
Everyone needs to learn pragmatics which is concerned with the study of language that is used in context (Illie and Norrick, 2018)
This study focuses on identifying the kinds of non-verbal communication (NVC) that used by the teachers at SMAN 1 Pamboang in teaching English as a foreign language
Summary
The purpose of communication is to get messages from other people in an unambiguous way. That is, when we are talking with other people we must pay attention to the setting or context of the conversation that includes; with whom, when, and where we talk. Context is very closely related to culture that certainly is different. If a speaker does not understand the audience, this will make the audience unable to receive messages from the speaker well. Related to this matter, everyone needs to learn pragmatics which is concerned with the study of language that is used in context (Illie and Norrick, 2018)
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