DEPICT IM/POLITENESS VIA MEDIATED MESSAGE SERVICES (SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE, BLACKBERRY MESSANGER AND WHATSUP) OF COLLAGE STUDENTS

Abstract

The notion of politeness in Javanese point of view is definitely different from English mind set then this may effect in term of its usage in daily live. Obviously, in Javanese culture interlocutor addresses other depends on the strata, social class, maturity, and further they commonly classified by the language level; ngoko, kromo and kromo inggil. This notion is not found in English since they do not recognize the specification like Javanese had. Additionally, attempting politeness in English Brown and Levinson has been pioneering this concept towards social interaction. Inferred of both English and Javanese culture STKIP PGRI Jombang students are commonly produce on both polite and impolite in sending message (via SMS, BBM, and WA) to the lecturer in term of lecturing activity. Eager to know what kind of politeness strategic applied by the students and what factors influencing the students to send the messages via mediated service, this study employed content analysis to reveal those questions. Being done by taking data from the communication taken place between students and lecturer, it resulted that the students felt has close relation and intimacy with the lecturer that influenced the impolite messages. Further, revealing second discussion it found that students commonly employ positive politeness strategic in sending message.