POLITENESS PRINCIPLES IN BARRACK OBAMA™S INTERVIEW

Authors

  • Conny Elisabeth
  • Willem Saragih

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24114/jalu.v3i1.1216

Abstract

ABSTRACT This study was focused on the types of politeness principles. This research was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. The data were the transcript of Barrack Obama™s interviews which were downloaded from internet. The findings showed that there were 31 utterances which contained 6 types of politeness principles. Obama tended to use the expressions of agreement maxim (51,61%), approbation maxim (22,58%), generosity maxim (12,9%), tact maxim (6,45%), modesty maxim (3,22%), and sympathy maxim (3,22%). The most dominant type of politeness principles was agreement maxim which means that Obama tried to minimize disagreement between self and others and maximize agreement between self and others. Keyword :  politeness principles, types of politeness principles, interview.

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Published

2014-01-02

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2014)

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