Ketidaksantunan (Impoliteness) dalam Tindak Tutur Keluhan Oleh Pembelajar Bahasa Inggris Berlatar Belakang Budaya Jawa: Kajian Pragmatik Interlingual
Date
2014Author
Wijayanto, Agus
Prasetyarini, Aryati
Hikmat, Mauly Halwat
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Impoliteness theories have been developing vigorously and they generally claim that impoliteness is communicative
strategies intended to disrupt social harmony in interaction. Neverthtless little research has been conducted on
impoliteness employed by second or foreign language learners. This paper reports impoliteness employed in
complaint by Indonesian learners of English and discusses possible factors which contribute to the impoliteness.
Research data is elicited by oral discourse completion tasks from 25 male and 25 female students studying at
English department of a university in Surakarta Indonesia. The findings show that the English learners tend to use
harsh and abusive complaints which could be viewed as impolite acts. Some factors might interplay with the use of
impoliteness by the the learners including their perception and knowledge of the nature of L2 complaint, their
language proficiency, and the availability of L2 pragmatic input in the home country setting (Indonesia).