The current research paper aims to explore apology actions of politeness in teacher-student interactions academic settings. In the study, researchers attempted make use discursive approach as a post-modern view politeness. Eelen (2001), Mills (2003), and Watts (2005) were launched noticeable criticism against Brown Levinson proposed approach. present study has utilized qualitative method. It en...

This presentation addresses the question: how and why can a pair of teacher-student interactants co-create a story? In analyzing the discourse data taken while interactants try to achieve the task of making a coherent story by arranging cards, the ‘ba (filed)’ theory is employed. ‘Ba’ based approach is an innovating frame of thinking device that assumes 1) inside perspective of the subject, 2) ...

Identity implications theory (IIT) is applied to analyze how young adults manage identity concerns associated with the goals of initiating, intensifying, and disengaging from romantic relationships. Participants wrote their responses to one of six hypothetical romantic (re)definition scenarios, indicated whether they actually would pursue the relational goal if their scenario were real, and rat...

We apply of Game Theory to linguistic politeness, considering requests as the canonical speech act where polite expressions factor in. As making a request is necessarily both strategic and asymmetric, we adapt Trust Games, modifying them by the notions of reputation, face, and repetition. Given this framework, our results show that although some polite requests may not be rational under one-sho...

This study aimed to uncover the different structures of linguistic politeness used in utterances teachers classroom interaction. More specifically, analysis made use House and Kasper’s (1981) Politeness Linguistic Expressions, Brown Levinson’s (1987) Strategies, Leech’s (1983) Maxims. Using observation interview, several were unearthed. Firstly, expressions involved markers, consultative device...