Politeness Utterances In Teaching Learning English Process

Abstract

Successful communication is the joint product of linguistic as well the
sociolinguistic competence, with the latter competence denoting appropriateness
which is closely associated with politeness. The study aimed to investigate the
politeness utterances in teaching learning process by teacher at SMK HARAPAN
TORAJA. Data were collected from teacher and students in teaching learning
English process. Data analysis consisted of analysis politeness utterances in
learning teaching process between teacher and students. The result of the
research found that teacher call the students’ name directly, the teacher used
pronoun mu, kamu, kau it is polite because teacher has higher position and
different status than students.