The Phenomena of Brown and Levinson’s Politeness Strategies Implemented by the Tourism Actors in Kuta Beach Bali

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10.2991/prasasti-18.2018.67How to use a DOI?

Keywords

tourism actor; Japanese tourist; linguistic politeness strategy; speech level; beach; Bali

Abstract

Tourism domain requires its actors not only to well communicate using foreign languages but also understand the proper politeness strategies. Thus, the purpose of this qualitative research is to figure out the best tourism actors’ linguistic politeness strategies to the Japanese tourists in Kuta beach. This research employs Brown and Levinson's politeness theory (1978, 1987) supported with the Japanese speech levels (Kaneko, 2014). The observation method with the techniques of recording, listening research data are collected through an and writing various interactions between the tourism actors and Japanese tourists. Based on the domain, taxonomy, component and cultural thematic analysis (Spradley, 1997), the research result shows that the phenomena of the implemented linguistic politeness due to the sequences of conversation structure within the informal situations generally get into the main conversational contents directly without introduction first or closing. In this context, the positive politeness strategy is dominating as a service language to the Japanese tourists. However, in the other context, it is also found that some utterance data use first introduction at the beginning of conversation in brief. In this context, the positive politeness strategy is also dominating. At the beginning of direct speech, the researcher does not only find the form off utsuugo but also teineigo markers with negative politeness strategy through the respectful linguistic form markers of teineigo (neutral), that is, the use of apology and common polite words at the beginning of speech. In addition to both strategies, there are also bald on record and off-record strategy which depend on the context of situations following each speech event.

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