Violation Of Politeness Maxims On Twitter

Shelya Chabibah; Suhardi; Prihadi

Authors

Shelya Chabibah State University of Yogyakarta
Suhardi State University of Yogyakarta
Prihadi State University of Yogyakarta

Keywords:

speech act, politeness maxims, social media, Roy Suryo’s tweet

Abstract

The development of information technology in the form of social media has an impact on the dynamics of politeness in the audience’s language. This research aims to describe Roy Suryo’s application of politeness maxims in his tweets via Twitter account @KMRTRoySuryo2 on Friday, June 10, 2022. Roy Suryo gave his response regarding the plan to increase the price of entrance tickets to the Borobudur Temple Stupa area through a meme accompanied by a caption which was uploaded via Twitter account. Data is collected using screen capture and text transcription techniques. The data is analyzed using speech act theory which is justified by the politeness maxims applied and violated. The result of this research is that there are six politeness maxims which is violated, namely expertise, generosity, praise, humility, approval, and sympathy with direct literal and nonliteral speech acts oriented to criticizing the government’s policy plans.

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