Parafrase Vol. 10 No. 01 Februari 2010
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LINGUISTIC POLITENESS IN DIFFERENT CULTURES
Linusia Marsih
Abstrak. Da la m a rtikel ini, penulis mendiskusikan kesantunan bahasa dalam budaya yang berbeda.
Kesantunan merupakan salah satu aspek yang perlu diperhatikan pengguna bahasa dalam ko munikasi
lintas budaya. Setiap budaya me miliki prinsip -prinsip kesantunan masing-masing dalam ko munikasi
lisan. Kesantunan tersebut dapat me liputi: sala m, penola kan atau penerimaan sebuah tawaran, sapaan,
admonisi, pembicaraan bisnis
Kata kunci: kesantunan bahasa, budaya, komunikasi lisan
INTRODUCTION
Human beings as social creature need to communicate or interact to each
other. In doing communication or interaction, they use language as a means of
communication. The interaction may happen in intra- group or intergroup. In intergroup
interaction misunderstanding is likely to happen if people do not pay attention to the
communication rules in each other language. One of the ways to avoid
misunderstanding is by knowing how to behave politely according to the norm of eac h
other language. Each language has different way to show politeness. This paper is
aimed at the discussion of politeness in different cultures. By understanding the rules of
politeness in different culture, hopefully the communication done by people from
different cultures will run smoothly.