<![CDATA[The purpose of this study is to describe the meaning of politeness in communicating in podcast media with an integrative-epistemological pragmatic perspective. The data of this study are manifestations of the pragmatic meaning of politeness in communicating in podcast media. The substantive data sources are the texts in the transcribed podcasts and in them there are research data. The locational data source is the podcast media that can be accessed around the time of this study. Data were collected using the listening method with recording and note-taking techniques. The data that has been collected is then classified and typified to facilitate data analysis. The data reduction process is carried out in this research stage. Data are analyzed and interpreted to find the pragmatic meanings of politeness. The pragmatic meanings of politeness are found using the equivalence analysis method, especially extralingual equivalences. The analysis of extralingual equivalences plays the role of context as a tool for analysis and interpretation. The dominant context used as a tool for analysis and interpretation in this stage is the cybertext context, both visual, aural, gestural, spatial, and linguistic cybertexts. The stages applied in this data analysis are identification, reduction, classification, identification, and interpretation. This study has produced several findings of the pragmatic meaning of politeness in podcast media as presented below: (1) Gratitude, (2) Expression of Admiration, (3) Expression of Affirmation, (4) Personal Expression, (5) Expression of Disagreement, (6) Indirect Expression, (7) Expression of Direct Affirmation, (8) Personal Expression, (9) Expression of Covert Criticism.]]>
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