In debating activities, especially political debates, a speaker does not always issue arguments in the same way. Sometimes conveys his ideas kindly and gently, sometimes with diction that seems to have negative connotations, even silent says nothing. Therefore, this study will analyze depth speech strategies produced by Indonesian officials politicians debate on YouTube channel. The method used...

Deixis owns a significant place in the study of pragmatics. Present study discusses deixis comparatively with reference to Levinson (1983) and Yule (1996) in terms of its clarification of concepts, appropriate exemplification and coherent argumentation as propounded in their respective works on pragmatics. However, it is revealed through this discussion that the approach of Yule is quite precis...

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis penggunaan tindak tutur permintaan maaf dalam klarifikasi yang disampaikan figur publik melalui media sosial kepada masyarakat berdasarkan model strategi Cohen dan Olshtain (1981). Strategi digunakan kemudian dihubungkan dengan konteks dipengaruhi oleh status para sesuai teori kesantunan Brown & Levinson (1987) yaitu kekuatan sosial, jarak beratny...

This study aims to find out how use the physiotherapist's speech strategy at RSU Haji Medan according theories of Brown and Levinson. research uses a qualitative approach with case method while data obtained through observation interviews. found that there are 2 strategies used by physiotherapists Medan. First, on record positive politeness contained in request directive acts (100%), question r...

In the last decade, many studies on politeness in Arabic have been published various platforms, but until now results not systematically compiled and used as a module or teaching material. addition, pragmatics materials, especially regarding principles strategies, currently do refer much to of latest research, even though these can be basis context applying, testing, developing theoretical fram...

The ease of online communication in the current era seems to still leave issue that really need be considered. Politeness communicating between educators and students carrying out message activities is one essential issues discussed. lack politeness teachers communicating, large possibility free when communication, low awareness emphasizing importance are some main problems resolved. This study...

In this paper we introduce Levinson means of Cauchy’s type. We show that these means are monotonic.