Realisation of Politeness Lecturer through Speech Acts in Classroom Interaction: Pragmatic Studies

Abstract

This research study is focused on how politeness and utterances applied by lecturers and students in the lecture classes. How do they talk and what do they say that makes the classroom atmosphere feel good. It turns out that speaking is not just a matter of how individuals convey ideas, thoughts and intentions to other people using proportional language, but what is more important is the speaker’s ability to maintain the dignity and feelings of the other people who are spoken to. Words have the power and huge impact to affect others both in positive or even negative terms. Words can hurt or heal, even create or destroy, it depends on how people deliver words in utterance or speech acts to others. People say ‘Life is too short, but there is always enough time for courtesy. Referring to the discussion, the aims of the study is to find out how most lecturers using positive or negative utterances in teaching the students, besides being able to predict what kinds of classroom, and teaching experiences it is available on teaching- learning process. The research method applied in this study is descriptive- qualitative research because the problem is related to humans who are fundamentally dependent on observation. The observation results of the document was analyzed descriptively by using words in an utterance and classroom discourse analysis. Thus, the point of view in this study refers to languages, the nature of humans and classroom situation as reflecting for the humans as educators, lecturers in dealing with their students out or inside the classroom. In this case, the writers have considered that most of the lecturers will produce positive words or utterances, clauses in delivering teaching materials in the lecture classroom.