LINGUISTIC POLITENESS IN
JAVANESE
Agus Subiyanto and Astri
Adriani Allien
Brown and Levinson’s (1978)
discussion on linguistic politeness has been used by some scholars (cf.
Adegbija, 1989 , Rhodes, 1989) as a basis of their analysis on politeness strategies
in some languages such as in Ogori, Yoruba, and Ojibwa. Two main types of
politeness have been proposed by Brown and Levinson, which are, positive and
negative politeness. Positive politeness is the one which is used to satisfy
the speaker’s needs of approvaland belonging, whereas, negative politeness is
the one which has the main goal of minimising of a face-threatening act (Brown
and Levinson, 1978:134).