Open AccessTeachers’ Politeness Markers in Request in Classroom Interactions
Author(s) -
Hieronimus Canggung Darong,
A. Effendi Kadarisman,
Yazid Basthomi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nobel
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2549-2470
pISSN - 2087-0698
DOI - 10.15642/nobel.2020.11.2.217-233
Subject(s) - politeness , conversation , psychology , aside , indonesian , cooperative principle , maxim , linguistics , politeness maxims , conversation analysis , speech act , pedagogy , communication , grice , pragmatics , political science , philosophy , law
This study is an attempt to examine politeness markers employed by Indonesian English teachers in classroom interactions. Purposefully chosen English teachers were observed, audio-recorded, and analyzed by using the politeness principle and Gricean cooperative principle. The conversation analysis revealed that to mitigate the illocutionary act of request, aside from using internal modifiers at most (consultative device, politeness markers, hesitators, hedges, play-downs, committers, down-toners, understaters), the teachers also used external devices as an adjunct to the head acts (grounder, sweetener, and disarmer). Besides, teachers intentionally violated the maxim for the sake of extending the talk. Further research needs to include more participants and instruments in a wider area of analysis.