Argumentative Essay On Politeness

Politeness

Politeness social position or status is enigmatic and controversial for some people who do not share the same culture and value. Our mind could blow just thinking and cracking this nebulous concept of politeness as if we are deciphering a message into every society worldwide to comprehend other cultures which considered as polite to them but not to us. Numerous studies have attempted to explain politeness, for example Brown and Levinson (1978) which stated politeness as the public self-image that every member wants to claim for himself. While, Mustafa Haji Daud (1995) cited politeness as “proper conversational language, refined speech, disciplined behavior, courtesy, well-behaved manner and good character.” Politeness is also a theory describing a proper social system, rules for speech and behavior (Brown, 2015). In other language, it means politeness can be either linguistics or actions

This statement is supported by Chie, Shinobu & Zimmerman (2011) who went to study abroad for exchange student program in Japan, suggest that the students recognized more cultural artifacts, behaviors, and attitudes and that they were more willing to change their perceptions on custom and ethic of the local after the trip as it proven through statistic whereby the exchange students practice politeness of other culture increase from 43 (57%) before the trip to 76 (80%) after the trip as well increase in the perspectives category from 0 (0%) to 2 (2%). It indicates that the students began to apply insight to comprehending the cultural phenomena observed when traveling. The perks of travelled outside own speech community is to avoid miscommunication on cultural differences because different assumptions actually derive from normal