LANGUAGE POLITENESS BETWEEN STUDENTS AND LECTURERS WHEN LEARNING ONLINE AT VOCATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

Language politeness is a person's etiquette in socializing, especially communicating with speech
partners, including in academic environments, such as universities. online. This lecture system has an
impact on the language politeness of students and lecturers. One of them is when students
communicate with lecturers through several applications, such as WhatsApp groups, Zoom, or
Google Meet. The purpose of this study is to describe "Student and Lecturer Language Politeness
during Online Learning at Vocational Higher Education. The research method used is descriptive
qualitative method with the research subjects being AMIK JTC students which is one of the vocational
higher education institutions in Central Java. The following are the results of his research, (1)
language politeness can be realized in two strategies namely positive and negative politeness
strategies and (2) there are five functions found in politeness in students' language with lecturers
during online learning, namely (a) representative function, (b) directive function, (c) expressive
function, (d) commissive function, and (e) declarative function. Overall, it can be concluded that most
AMIK JTC students are polite in language during online learning, although sometimes there are
polite words that are not in accordance with Indonesian spelling. This can be seen in the words
"asiap, yok, and so on". Therefore, it is necessary to carry out further research related to the use of
spelling in student speech during both online and offline learning.