Javanese Speech Politeness in Expresisve Speech Act of Women Leader Utterance in Ponorogo Regency
Diyah Atiek Mustikawati, M.Hum

Universitas Muhammadiyah Ponorogo

Abstract

Javanese speech politeness hold important role in the realization of Javanese speech act. There are three levels of Javanese speech politeness in this research that is very polite (KI), polite (KM), and impolite (Ng). This study revealed Javanese speech politeness in expressive speech act of women leader utterance in Ponorogo.This research used pragmatic qualitative approach, this study examined women leader in 8 urban and rural area in Ponorogo. The result showed that expressive speech act consist of 49 % thanking, 27 % greeting, and 24 % apologizing. Three of kinds expressive speech acts mostly found in event language situation. Both in apologizing and greeting there is no Javanese speech politeness of expressive act in service language situation. Very polite and polite are high and impolite only found one in service language situation of thanking. The Javanese speech politeness influenced the use of expressive speech act in accordance with context or language situation. This research contributed to the next reference of pragmatic study especially in Javanese speech politeness and speech act.

Keywords: Pragmatic- Javanese speech politeness- expressive speech act.

Topic: Education