Politeness Strategy in Speech Act of Giving Advice in Japanese
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.073How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Giving advice; Japanese; politeness strategy; speech act
- Abstract
Speech act is a very important thing in Japanese communication and cannot be separated by the manners are applied in society. Politeness is needed to create a good condition when we use speech act in communication. One of the speech acts that needs to use politeness is speech act of giving advice. By using a descriptive qualitative method, this study aims to show the types of speech act of giving advice in Japanese. The data are in the form of dialogues which use speech act of giving advice from Japanese movies such as Kimi no Suizou o Tabetai, Omoi Omoware Furi Furare, and Haru Matsu Bokura. The data were analyzed based on the context and politeness strategies by Brown and Levinson (1978). From this study, 36 data were obtained showing the use of speech act in giving advice in Japanese, specifically 9 bald on record strategy, 17 positive politeness strategy, 3 negative politeness strategy, and 7 off-record politeness strategy. Based on these results, the most common politeness strategy found in these movies is positive politeness strategy. Positive politeness strategy is widely used because of the habit of Japanese people who tend to avoid hurting others’ feelings. From this study, it can be seen how politeness strategies are used by Japanese people when using speech act of giving advice to the interlocutor, so we can understand how speech act of giving advice should be used in Japanese.
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- © 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Nadin Ghaisani AU - Nuria Haristiani PY - 2021 DA - 2021/11/21 TI - Politeness Strategy in Speech Act of Giving Advice in Japanese BT - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 471 EP - 476 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211119.073 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211119.073 ID - Ghaisani2021 ER -