Palakka : Media and Islamic Coummunication
Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021)

Polite Questioning in Students' WhatsApp Group Discussion (A Research on Discourse and Communication)

Resyadi, Herman (Unknown)
Suraidah, Ainun (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
30 Jun 2021

Abstract

This research is under the discipline of Discourse Analysis. It focused to investigate the politeness used by students in social media, especially WhatsApp application. This research was consist of 20 students in one class at the Graduate Program of State University of Makassar. To collect the data, the researchers transcribed students' chat and discussion from the students' WhatsApp group discussion. This researcher was analyzed by using discourse analysis approach based on the politeness theory by Brown and Levinson (1987). The result of this research showed that students only use positive politeness in questioning to show closeness and respect to the other students in the WhatsApp group discussion.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

palakka

Publisher

Subject

Religion Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

Palakka: Media and Islamic Communication is published twice a year, June and December by the Communication and Islamic Broadcast Study Program at the Bone State Islamic Institute. This journal is a publication of scientific papers for academics and practitioners. This journal publishes articles from ...