Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)

Politeness Strategies in WhatsApp Text Messaging Between Sundanese Students and Lecturers

Authors
Farida Farida, Dian Yuliana
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Farida Farida
Available Online March 2019.
DOI
10.2991/icollite-18.2019.37How to use a DOI?
Keywords
computer-mediated communication; politeness strategies; text messaging
Abstract

This study aims to reveal politeness strategies used by Sundanese students when sending text messages to their lecturers via WhatsApp chat application. For the data, this qualitative study used 57 text messages from six students majoring in Sundanese language at a university in Bandung. Drawing on Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategies, the study revealed that the students used all of the four politeness strategies with negative as the most frequently used strategy and bald on-record the least frequent one. These findings suggest that the students are aware of asymmetrical power relation with the lecturers. It is expected that this study would give insight into politeness strategies in mediated communication particularly between Sundanese students and their lecturers.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
March 2019
ISBN
978-94-6252-691-4
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icollite-18.2019.37How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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