Strategi dan Struktur Kesantunan Melayu dalam Kritikan Mentor: Rancangan Realiti Televisyen (Strategies and Structures of Malay Politeness in Criticism on Mentor: A Reality Television Programme)

Criticism is often labelled as a negative comment. However, it can also be treated as a positive comment. The word ‘criticism’ has broad meanings, such as review. In Malay culture, criticisms are presented in various ways by using certain strategies and structures. The purpose of criticism is to ach...

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Main Authors: Zahid, Indirawati, Hashim, Nasihah
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spelling my.um.eprints.202152019-01-28T08:36:48Z http://eprints.um.edu.my/20215/ Strategi dan Struktur Kesantunan Melayu dalam Kritikan Mentor: Rancangan Realiti Televisyen (Strategies and Structures of Malay Politeness in Criticism on Mentor: A Reality Television Programme) Zahid, Indirawati Hashim, Nasihah PL Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Criticism is often labelled as a negative comment. However, it can also be treated as a positive comment. The word ‘criticism’ has broad meanings, such as review. In Malay culture, criticisms are presented in various ways by using certain strategies and structures. The purpose of criticism is to achieve an objective. This can be seen in the criticism given in Mentor; a reality television programme. The data of this criticism will be analyzed by applying Brown and Levinson (1987) and Asmah (2000) theories. The combinations of these two theories are based on the concept of face and personal honour. These formed patterns of politeness strategies from Malay perspectives. The strategy patterns will be structured in the Sandwich technique (Davies & Jacobs, 1985). This study used data from Mentor seasons 1, 2 and 5. Data were downloaded, transcribed and text analysis was conducted on the texts. Utterances from fixed juries, recurring juries and invited juries were analysed and grouped into strategy patterns of politeness. The findings of the analysis show that all the juries tends to use patterns of strategies (on record baldly) + (with redressive action positive politeness) + (with redressive action negative politeness), (BTP)+(BPKP)+(BPKN) with G3 and G1 Malay politeness; with a positive criticism flanking the negative criticism. This proves that while conveying criticism, Malay speakers are still concerned about politeness in communication. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Press 2018 Article PeerReviewed Zahid, Indirawati and Hashim, Nasihah (2018) Strategi dan Struktur Kesantunan Melayu dalam Kritikan Mentor: Rancangan Realiti Televisyen (Strategies and Structures of Malay Politeness in Criticism on Mentor: A Reality Television Programme). GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 18 (2). pp. 134-153. ISSN 1675-8021 https://doi.org/10.17576/gema-2018-1802-10 doi:10.17576/gema-2018-1802-10
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Zahid, Indirawati
Hashim, Nasihah
Strategi dan Struktur Kesantunan Melayu dalam Kritikan Mentor: Rancangan Realiti Televisyen (Strategies and Structures of Malay Politeness in Criticism on Mentor: A Reality Television Programme)
description Criticism is often labelled as a negative comment. However, it can also be treated as a positive comment. The word ‘criticism’ has broad meanings, such as review. In Malay culture, criticisms are presented in various ways by using certain strategies and structures. The purpose of criticism is to achieve an objective. This can be seen in the criticism given in Mentor; a reality television programme. The data of this criticism will be analyzed by applying Brown and Levinson (1987) and Asmah (2000) theories. The combinations of these two theories are based on the concept of face and personal honour. These formed patterns of politeness strategies from Malay perspectives. The strategy patterns will be structured in the Sandwich technique (Davies & Jacobs, 1985). This study used data from Mentor seasons 1, 2 and 5. Data were downloaded, transcribed and text analysis was conducted on the texts. Utterances from fixed juries, recurring juries and invited juries were analysed and grouped into strategy patterns of politeness. The findings of the analysis show that all the juries tends to use patterns of strategies (on record baldly) + (with redressive action positive politeness) + (with redressive action negative politeness), (BTP)+(BPKP)+(BPKN) with G3 and G1 Malay politeness; with a positive criticism flanking the negative criticism. This proves that while conveying criticism, Malay speakers are still concerned about politeness in communication.
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author Zahid, Indirawati
Hashim, Nasihah
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Hashim, Nasihah
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title Strategi dan Struktur Kesantunan Melayu dalam Kritikan Mentor: Rancangan Realiti Televisyen (Strategies and Structures of Malay Politeness in Criticism on Mentor: A Reality Television Programme)
title_short Strategi dan Struktur Kesantunan Melayu dalam Kritikan Mentor: Rancangan Realiti Televisyen (Strategies and Structures of Malay Politeness in Criticism on Mentor: A Reality Television Programme)
title_full Strategi dan Struktur Kesantunan Melayu dalam Kritikan Mentor: Rancangan Realiti Televisyen (Strategies and Structures of Malay Politeness in Criticism on Mentor: A Reality Television Programme)
title_fullStr Strategi dan Struktur Kesantunan Melayu dalam Kritikan Mentor: Rancangan Realiti Televisyen (Strategies and Structures of Malay Politeness in Criticism on Mentor: A Reality Television Programme)
title_full_unstemmed Strategi dan Struktur Kesantunan Melayu dalam Kritikan Mentor: Rancangan Realiti Televisyen (Strategies and Structures of Malay Politeness in Criticism on Mentor: A Reality Television Programme)
title_sort strategi dan struktur kesantunan melayu dalam kritikan mentor: rancangan realiti televisyen (strategies and structures of malay politeness in criticism on mentor: a reality television programme)
publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Press
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url http://eprints.um.edu.my/20215/
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