MODEL KESANTUNAN PENGGUNAAN BAHASA MALAYU PAPUA OLEH MASYARAKAT MANOKWARI

Authors

  • Hengki Mofu Universitas Papua
  • Noer Jihad Saleh Universitas Hasanudin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51817/kimli.v2023i2023.98

Keywords:

politeness strategy, multicultural, stranger, relatives, friends

Abstract

It is believed that culturally people's utterances are fully interference with by their politeness strategy
(Brown et al., 1987). This research aims at analyzing this statement by seeing the politeness
phenomena among Papua Malay speakers in Manokwari, West Papua. It uses descriptive qualitative
research based on a prospective model of politeness theoretical framework by using the social relation
symmetrical model (Hakim Yassi, 2019). Data are taken from 60 respondents of Papua Malay
speakers in Manokwari, West Papua. It is found that in a symmetrical social relation of the participants
in which age is more dominant among relatives, strangers, friends, and workmates. Age dominantly
governs locators' politeness strategy among those interlocutors. When talking to a stranger, friends,
and workmates, the speakers denote ages to govern their politeness strategy. It is different if the have
the same age, the speakers use a variety strategy of politeness. When the locutors speak to a stranger,
they prefer to use positive casual politeness. In contrast, when they speak to a friend, they tend to use
negative casual politeness to strengthen their friendship. In talking to relatives, they use casual positive
politeness. It shows that friends and relatives use a casual politeness strategy even though they differ
in positive and negative casual. Casual positive gives more respect to the interlocutor whereas Casual
is used to strengthen the friendship. In short, age is the most social strategy that governs the locutor’s
politeness strategy among Papua Malay speakers in Manokwari, West Papua. This phenomenon shows
the melting culture of Manokwari society's local wisdom that becomes a manifestation of multicultural
in Manokwari.

Published

2023-12-22

How to Cite

Mofu, H., & Jihad Saleh, N. (2023). MODEL KESANTUNAN PENGGUNAAN BAHASA MALAYU PAPUA OLEH MASYARAKAT MANOKWARI. Kongres Internasional Masyarakat Linguistik Indonesia, 2023, 58–71. https://doi.org/10.51817/kimli.v2023i2023.98