THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES OF POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED BY MALE AND THOSE USED BY FEMALE STUDENTS OF TOURISM DEPARTMENT AIRLANGGA UNIVERSITY IN MAKING REQUESTS
People have discussed and researched the relationship between gender and politeness in several studies. In terms of politeness there is a general assumption that women arc more polite than men. Based on the assumption above, the writer is interested in conducting a study about the relationship betwe...
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| Summary: | People have discussed and researched the relationship between gender and politeness in several studies. In terms of politeness there is a general assumption that women arc more polite than men. Based on the assumption above, the writer is interested in conducting a study about the relationship between one's sex and his/her choice of politeness strategies. In this study, the writer intends to find out whether there are similarities and differences between politeness strategies used by male and those used by female students of Tourism Department in making request and what kinds of similarities and differences that occur in the politeness strategies used by the male and female students of Tourism Department in making request. As suggested by Brown and Levinson. politeness strategies are divided
into four: Bald On Record, Positive Politeness, Negative Politeness, and OffRecord. The writer distributes questionnaires to the students of Tourism Department, Unair. After doing the analysis, the writer finds that there are
similarities and differences in the politeness strategies used by the male and those used by the female students of Tourism Department. |
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