Face and Address Term in Cross Cultural Classroom Communication

Titik Ceriyani Miswaty (Universitas Bumigora Mataram, Indonesia)
Syamsurrijal Syamsurrijal (Universitas Bumigora Mataram, Indonesia)
M. Zaki Pahrul Hadi (Universitas Bumigora Mataram, Indonesia)
Taufik Suadiyatno (Universitas Pendidikan Mandalika Mataram, Indonesia)

Ethical Lingua: Journal of Language Teaching and Literature
Vol. 8 No. 2 (2021)

This article focused on the usage of address term in saving and maintaining face in cross-cultural classroom. In order to gain the result of this research, this research occupied conversation analytic framework to explore classroom interaction. The data used is conversation during classroom interaction. There are 13 kinds of conversation collected in this research. In the data occurrences from Sasaknese and non-Sasaknese students, the non-Sasaknese students using “side” to refer “you” instead of using the word “you” in their native language. Furthermore, the use of the address term has proven to be able to save and protect the face of the interlocutor. although the results of data analysis show that students use address terms more as a way of respecting their teachers than teachers to students. but this does not reduce the politeness of the way the teacher talks to the students.