Language Politeness
Analysis on Language Politeness Used by Students in Dangerous Mind Film
I. Introduction Communication is one way that people use in order to convey meaning, intention, and message to others. Communication is also a process of transferring information from one person to another. Communication happens in all over the world. It can happen in public places, in houses, in many other places. The language used by a person and how a person uses the language when communicating to others is very important thing in the communication. It is important that during the communication, a person can be polite, use the language appropriately. Moreover, knowing the relationship between the speaker and the addressee well so he or she can speak appropriately and make others feel comfortable is also important. In this case, the communication happens in the school. There, communication happens between teachers and students. When doing a communication to their teacher, students must know how to communicate with their teacher, what utterance to use. This paper investigates the language politeness used by students in Dangerous Mind film. The film is about the story of a new teacher named Mrs. Johnson, one of the characters, who teaches students whose characteristics are very bad. The settings in this film are taken in several places. One of them is in the classroom setting where communication between Mrs. Johnson and her students happen. Therefore, the researchers are able to investigate and identify whether the language used by some students in the film shows language politeness or not. After that, the researchers can suggest readers, especially those who are students, about how to use language during the communication in a classroom appropriately. In this research, the researchers use document analysis as the research strategy.
I.I Problem Formulation
1. What language utterance used by the students in the film?
2. How to use language utterance appropritelly in the
I. Introduction Communication is one way that people use in order to convey meaning, intention, and message to others. Communication is also a process of transferring information from one person to another. Communication happens in all over the world. It can happen in public places, in houses, in many other places. The language used by a person and how a person uses the language when communicating to others is very important thing in the communication. It is important that during the communication, a person can be polite, use the language appropriately. Moreover, knowing the relationship between the speaker and the addressee well so he or she can speak appropriately and make others feel comfortable is also important. In this case, the communication happens in the school. There, communication happens between teachers and students. When doing a communication to their teacher, students must know how to communicate with their teacher, what utterance to use. This paper investigates the language politeness used by students in Dangerous Mind film. The film is about the story of a new teacher named Mrs. Johnson, one of the characters, who teaches students whose characteristics are very bad. The settings in this film are taken in several places. One of them is in the classroom setting where communication between Mrs. Johnson and her students happen. Therefore, the researchers are able to investigate and identify whether the language used by some students in the film shows language politeness or not. After that, the researchers can suggest readers, especially those who are students, about how to use language during the communication in a classroom appropriately. In this research, the researchers use document analysis as the research strategy.
I.I Problem Formulation
1. What language utterance used by the students in the film?
2. How to use language utterance appropritelly in the
References: Spolsky Bernard. Sociolingustics. 1998. New York: Oxford University Press.