Register Journal
Vol 3, No 2 (2010): REGISTER

Politeness Strategies and Levels In Tourism-Service Language in Surakarta Residency

Budi Purnomo (PhD Program - Gadjah Mada University Nusantara Street no.1 Bulaksumur, Yogyakarta INDONESIA 55281)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jul 2016

Abstract

In tourism industry, tourists act as guests and tourism industry practitioners act as hosts. Typically tourism industry practitioners will try to act politely and follow politeness strategies as well as possible when serving tourists to ensure their satisfaction. Levels of satisfaction could be determined by the politeness of the hosts' behaviour towards their guests, including the politeness levels of their tourism-service language. This research was done in Surakarta Residency, the main tourist destination in Central Java. Data sources of this research came from (1) informants and (2) events.  The data were analyzed by Brown and Levinson’s politeness strategies (1987). The results of this research show that the tourism industry practitioners in Surakarta Residency use various politeness strategies and levels in tourism-service language to serve their guests.keywords; Politeness Strategies; Politeness Levels;  Tourism-Service Language 

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Journal Info

Abbrev

register

Publisher

Subject

Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

The name of REGISTER JOURNAL was taken from the concept of REGISTER and it has clearly been described by Trudgill (1983:101) as follows: Linguistic varieties that are linked ... to occupations, professions or topics have been termed registers. The register of law, for example, is different from ...