The Use of Lakoff’s Politeness Model in the Politeness Utterances of Lecturers to Students in the Lecturing Process

Abstract

This research aims to describe the polite utterances of the language use performed by lecturers to students when performing lectures in the classroom.  The lecturers have an affecting  social role in Indonesia. Social role is inherent in individual lecturers in any social situation and throughout their lives, so that every action or word of a lecturer tends to attract the attention of many people. This research has living values beneficial to society. The politeness model of Lakoff is used to ascertain the politeness utterances of the lecturers denoting to  the speech act types of Searle. The research is a naturalistic, qualitative and descriptive method under the umbrella of pragmatic study.   The data is obtained directly from the classroom by using a recording device, the collected data are the utterances performed by the lecturers in the lecturing process.  The result of research illustrates the politeness utterances performed by the lecturers occured in the speech act of directive, expressive, and assertive; and the politeness utterances in the speech act of directive is most frequently utterance occured.