POLITENESS IN DOMESTIC VERBAL VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN INDONESIA

摘要

Politeness happens in good situations not only in regular dan formal conversations among the speaker, but also in non-formal and irregular conversation, and the speaker is in a bad situation. This article is aimed at describing the forms of the politeness of the speakers who are in anger. The data were taken in West Sumatera. To obtain the data, note-taking, recording, and interviewing was conducted. The data were analyzed by using the concept of politeness and verbal violence against women. The result of the analysis is descriptively done in which some tables and charts were used to display the number of the occurrence of certain data. The findings pointed out that there were four forms of politeness in domestic verbal violence. They are politeness of request; refusal; promise; and expressiveness. Politeness of requests occurs most dominantly (37%) because the speakers wanted these women to do what they expected.