The Use of Politeness Principle in Teachers' Directive Speech Acts on Teaching and Learning Process at SMA Negeri 5 Merangin Jambi Province

摘要

This study was aimed to (1) explain the type of teacher's directive speech acts, (2) the context of the situation in the teacher's directive speech acts, and (3) the principle of politeness in teachers' directive speech acts on teaching and learning process at SMA Negeri 5 Merangin Jambi Province. Data in the form of speech acts directive teachers collected by way of recorded and observed. The result of the research showed that 1) the type of speech act directive done by the teacher is asking, pleading, demanding, suggesting and challenging, (2) Situation context in speech acts teacher directive are grouped into four, (a) situation context, insensitive topic and noisy atmosphere (-S, +R); (b) situation context, topic insensitive and not noisy atmosphere (-S, -R); (c) situation context of sensitive topic and noisy atmosphere (+S, +R); and (d) situation context, sensitive topics and not noisy atmosphere (+S, -R). (3) the principle of politeness that teachers use is the tact maxim, aprobation maxim, agreement maxim, and sympath maxim.