POLITENESS IMPLICATURE ON SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS) TEXT WRITTEN BY COLLEGE STUDENTS SENT TO THEIR LECTURERS AS A DEVELOPMENT MEDIA OF AFFECTIVE ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATIONS

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10.2991/aecon-17.2017.17How to use a DOI?

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implicature, SMS, and politeness

Abstract

Implicature is an implicit aspect on human communication. Text of short message service written by students of higher education (collage students) sent to their lecturers is a linguistic data that can be utilized to figure out politeness implicature of the students. Knowledge of students' politeness is important, because it is one of affective assessment forms that is not recently noticed in higher educations. The problems are: 1) how is the form of implicature of students' SMS text sent to their lecturers? 2) How is the impoliteness form of the students' SMS text? This research was conducted using descriptive qualitative approach. The descriptive approach was in form of SMS text data presentation done by the researcher. While the qualitative approach was in form of interpretation of politeness or impoliteness on the available data (SMS text). The research data were the students' SMS texts sent to their lecturers. Its data resources were submitted from the lecturers working at three big universities located in Banyumas regency. Data collection was conducted using documentation technique. Data analysis was conducted using triangulation technique. Research result showed that the students' SMS texts are commonly written in less polite tone. The lack of politeness in the SMS texts could be viewed from the time limitation proposed by the students to their lecturers. The form of impoliteness occurred because of maxim violation such as: tact maxim, generosity maxim, modesty maxim, agreement maxim, sympathy maxim, and approbation maxim.

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AU  - Eko Suroso
AU  - Sarwiji Suwandi
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TI  - POLITENESS IMPLICATURE ON SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE (SMS) TEXT WRITTEN BY COLLEGE STUDENTS SENT TO THEIR LECTURERS AS A DEVELOPMENT MEDIA OF AFFECTIVE ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATIONS
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Asia Pacific Education Conference (AECON 2017)
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