INDIRECT SPEECH IN POLITENESS STRATEGIES AND ISLAMIC ETHICS (A Case Study at IAIN Surakarta)

Abstract

Politeness is widely used in conversation among people. To do this, people tend to use indirect speech acts, since they diminish the unpleasant message contained in requests and orders. Beside politeness, people also use indirect strategies when they want to make their speech more interesting, when they want to reach goals different from their partners‘ or when they want to increase the force of the message communicated. The notion of indirection should be expanded to take into account at any use of language that is ‘unconventional’ in a particular community. Therefore, indirect speech act may be arguably used in communication. There are many reasons for using whether direct or indirect speech act. In Islamic value, the notion of politeness and brotherhood become portray of Islamic relationship among people. The example of real use of indirect speech in terms of politeness strategies can be taken from academic context. This will give authentic samples of the way people communicate to achieve the goal of interaction. This paper focuses on the study of indirect utterance for the interaction among participants at campus of Islamic State Institute (IAIN)Surakarta

Keywords: Indirection, stance, topic, participation, production