| dc.description.abstract | This article examines the ways of Javanese people deliver requests
politely which is not only determined by the linguistic factors, but it is also
strongly influenced by some concepts of Javanese cultures, such as tata krama,
andhap-asor, and tanggap ing sasmito. The data of the research were collected
from the conversations among the Javanese people in Blitar, East Java. The
collected data were selected in relation to delivering requests, and analyzed
based on the cultural Javanese concepts which have been realized in the
Javanese language, such as: speech levels, the appropriate verb forms according
to the subject or the object in utterances, the morpho-syntactic structures, and
politeness theories proposed by Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987), Grice
(1981), and Lakoff (1973). The result of this research shows that the politeness
of delivering requests in Javanese can be done gradually through many different
strategies: replacing the imperative suffixes with the particle ‗mbok‘ meaning
please, choosing the right speech levels according to the social relationship
among the interlocutors, applying the agentless passive form, changing the
declarative clause into the interrogative one, and creating an appropriate
supposition and condition before introducing the request. | en_US |
