Guinina's Galery

MALE AND FEMALE STUDENT'S LINGUISTIC POLITENESS Nama     :   Guinina Nur Kaesarini E-mail     : guininanur.2018@student.uny.ac.id INTRODUCTION      Communicative competence emphasizes that the knowledge of grammatical rules is not sufficient to communicate comprehensively, therefore it needs pragmatic knowledge. Without pragmatic understanding, there will be many failures in communication for example is misunderstanding. Besides, one important aspect of pragmatic competence is politeness. Many researches have been conducted in this field, however only few that specifically revealed the differences between male and female linguistic politeness.  The observation is conducted based on the adaptation from DCT by Bacha, Bahous & Diab (2012). Furthermore, the data are analyzed using some politeness theories. The result showed that in general, female students are more polite compared to male students....