THE PRINCIPLE OF LANGUAGE POLITENESS IN KINSHIP JAVA CULTURE

Abstract

This study discussed about the principles of language politeness in kinship java culture. The objective of this study were to: (1) find out the types of the principles of language politeness used in kinship java culture, (2) describe the use of language politeness in kinship java culture, and (3) explain the reason of the use of language politeness in kinship java culture. The descriptive qualitative method was applied in this study. The data were obtained from the Javanese villagers in Sumber Mukti Village, Kota Baharu District, Aceh Singkil Regency, Aceh Province were communication utterences between Javanese villagers in Kinship Java culture, which were collected by using interview and observation techniques. Then, the analysis model of Miles and Huberman (1994) were used to analyze the data. Referring to Leech's (1983) theory regarding politeness, the results of this study show that all the principles of language politeness were realized by people in kinship java culture, namely: tact maxim were 25 utterances data (27,2%), generosity maxim were 12 utterances data (13%), approbation maxim were 21 utterances data (22,8%), modesty maxim were 13 utterances data (14,1%), agreement maxim were 16 utterances data (17,4%) and sympathy maxim were 5 utterances data (5,4%). The principle of language politeness that was applied was based on the context of the utterance that occurs in communication. The reasons for using each principles of language politeness were adjusted to the character inherent in Javanese culture in behavior namely: tanggap ing sasmita, kurmat, tepa slira, andhap ashor, toto kromo, and empan papan. So that, the researcher concluded that all the principles of language politeness were applied in communicating by people in kinship java culture.