The objectives of this descriptive qualitative study were to find out the strategies which is used by the members of meeting in expressing their idea in the meeting. The data were collected by recording the utterances spoken by the members of the meeting of MTs Negeri 1 Deli Serdang on April 14, 2018. Then, they were transcribed the data, and identified all utterances which express role of linguistic. In analyzing the data, it categorized by referring to the discursive struggle values theory and deals with the explanation of the linguistic politeness which is classified in five categories; minimizing the conflict and confrontation, minimizing imposition, asserting reciprocity, claiming common ground, and bringing forwards accurate arguments and data (Minda, 2013:64). The findings of the study showed that the role of linguistic politeness can be occurred in the school meeting at MTs Negeri 1 Deli Serdang in which it showed discursive struggle that there are politeness value occurred in the setting, such as minimizing imposition, asserting reciprocity, claiming common ground, and bringing forward accurate arguments and Data. Keywords: linguistic politeness, meeting
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