<p class="abstrak">The science of speech and context is known as pragmatics. Politeness strategy one many linguistic concerns covered in this study. There are four categories politeness the research on polite discourse that Brown Levinson pioneered. Being seeks to lessen uncomfortable or unwelcome reactions. Culture can be related through research. The Minangkabau people believe use "Kato...

In recent years, politeness theory has increasingly focused on speakers’ own conceptualizations of polite behavior, viewing politeness concepts as a type of language ideology. This article examines the construction of Japanese politeness concepts in the business etiquette training provided for new employees in Japanese companies. Drawing on participant-observation of business etiquette seminars...

Politeness is necessary for the way people socialize. However, some choose to communicate impolitely despite knowing that it’s inappropriate. This study aims find out how use impoliteness strategies in communication, and identify used Vice-Presidential United States of Amerika candidates debate between Mike Pence Sen. Kamala Harris on October 8th, 2020, while also figuring purpose using these d...

Human teaching strategies are usually inferred from transcripts of face-to-face conversations or computer-mediated dialogs between learner and tutor. However, during natural interactions there are no constraints on the human tutor’s behavior and thus tutorial strategies are difficult to analyze and reproduce in a computational model. To overcome this problem, we have realized a Wizard of Oz int...

The study of compliments has attracted the attention of many scholars (e.g., Goffman 1971; Lakoff 1973; Brown and Levinson 1978; Amouzadeh 2001; Golato 2002; Sharifian 2005) and has become a major issue in the area of interactional sociolinguistics. To date, many models of politeness have been put forward in the literature. In this study, Brown and Levinson’s (1978, 1987) politeness model was u...