Exploring Deixis and Politeness Strategy Committed between Student and Lecturer

Copyright (c) 2022 Jaul Fadoli Exploring Deixis and Politeness Strategy Committed between Student and Lecturer Journal of English Language and Education ISSN 2597- 6850 (Online), 2502-4132 (Print) Journal Homepage: https://jele.or.id/index.php/jele/index Article Exploring Deixis and Politeness Strategy Committed between Student and Lecturer https://doi.org/10.31004/jele.v7i1.224  Jaul Fadoli abcde Universitas Lampung ABSTRACT This current study aims at seeking the type of deixis and politeness strategy often used by student and lecturer. The writer applied a descriptive qualitative research method to explore the phenomena on student and lecturer interaction. The data were primarily collected from student and lecturer chat on WhatsApp and Email. Then, those were analyzed on deixis and politeness theory proposed by Brown and Levinson theory. The research revealed that the occurrences of person deixis and address terms were prevalently committed. As the conclusion, the results of this study might become insight for students as an effort to create effective interaction with their lecturers. Keywords: Deixis, Politeness Strategy, Interaction. Article History: Received 09th Maret 2022 Accepted 11th April 2022 Published 11th May 2022 INTRODUCTION Pragmatics is the study of meaning delivered by the speaker (or writer) and interpreted by the listener (or reader). Pragmatics is the study about the speaker's intent. In other words Pragmatics is branch linguistics that examines the intent of the speaker or the purpose of what is said by the speaker (Yule (1996). In order for that to happen, speakers (or writers) must be able to depend on a lot of shared assumptions and expectations when they try to communicate (Ramasari, 2021). Among the fields, the two of pragmatic studies namely deixis and politeness strategy are attracted to be investigated. Because of classroom university context, recognizing the background or the context of the utterance can help students understanding the meaning of the utterance easier. Based on the context and relation of the speaker and the addressee in a speech event, the interpretation of deixis will be different for every people (Mayori, 2020; Nurvagian,2021). Deixis is the word that can be interpreted the meaning based on the context. Deixis is a Greek term which, for one of the most basic things, means „pointing‟ via language (Yule, 1996). On the other hand, politeness is also relevant and important in education, such as in classroom teaching and learning interaction. During the teaching and learning process the lecturer uses many utterances to communicate with the students which show politeness strategy. In fact, one of the emerging issues of online learning is also the use of text messaging over the WhatsApp application, among teachers and students which is concerned with students‟ impoliteness. A body of literature has extensively argued that students are less polite language users when sending texts to their lecturers. So, politeness is needed to be implemented since rudeness creates conflict between teacher and students (Mulyono et al, 2019; Yoga et al, 2018). © 2022 The Author.This article is licensed CC BY SA 4.0. visit Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Journal of English Langauge and Education 7(1) 2022 63 Copyright (c) 2022 Jaul Fadoli Exploring Deixis and Politeness Strategy Committed between Student and Lecturer Some investigations dealing with deixis and politeness strategy had been scrutinized.Hasanah (2021) found that the most dominant in students‟ speech texts is person deixis and an analysis of deixis existed on articles at jakarta post by Ramasari (2021), it was found that pronoun of person deixis was most frequently used. Sapitri et al (2019) find out the modesty of politeness strategies proposed by Brown & Levinson. The lecturers and students frequently used positive strategies as signs of a psychologically close relationship, reciprocity, and friendship in a group as found in Fitriyah& Ridwan‟s research (2019). Types of deixis is supported by Brown and Levinson defining the deixis into five types, they are: person deixis, place deixis, time deixis, social deixis and discourse deixis. Person Deixis It clearly operates on a basic three elements, exemplified by pronouns for first person (I), second person (You) and third person (she, he, it). Person deixis involves the speaker (I) and the addressee (You). In conversation, each person constantly changes from being Ito being you. The choice of one of these forms instead of another, because of the surrounding social circumstances is sometimes described as social deixis. Place Deixis Place or space deixis refers to the specification of locations relative to anchorage in the speech event. The importance of location specification in general can be gauged from the fact that there seem to be two basic ways of referring to objects - by describing or naming them on the one hand and by locating them on the other. Time Deixis Time deixis can also be called as temporal deixis. Temporal deixis functions to locate points or intervals on the time axis, using the moments of utterance as a reference point. People can find some examples of temporal deixis. It can be found in the use of time signal, such as: now, soon, recently, then, yesterday, this year. Besides, it is usually found in the use of tenses. Social Deixis It encode the social identities of participants (properly, incumbents of participantsroles), or the social relationship between them, or between one of them and persons and entities referredto. The usage of social deixis brings the use of polite pronouns and title of address and encodes the social relationships on the port of the participants in the conversation thatdetermined, for example, the choice of honorific or polite or intimate or insulting speech level in additionto honorifics, examples include nicknames, informal names, and title of respect. Discourse Deixis It is generally conceded that such words have at least a component of meaning that resists truth conditional meaning treatment. Words seem to indicate how the utterance that contains them is a response to, or a continuation of, some portion of the prior discourse. In English, there are some deictic expressions which include in discourse deixis, such as: but, therefore, in conclusion, to the contrary, still, however, anyway, well, besides, actually, all in all, so, after all, etc. Types of politeness strategy according to the politeness theory of Brown and Levinson has become a paradigm for study on politeness strategy. The politeness strategies of Brown and Levinson (1978) could be divided into four main strategies: © 2022 The Author.This article is licensed CC BY SA 4.0. visit Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Journal of English Langauge and Education 7(1) 2022 64 Copyright (c) 2022 Jaul Fadoli Exploring Deixis and Politeness Strategy Commi (...truncated)