Expression & Politeness are important for communication

 

          Expression is an expression or process that arises because of the result of an action, activity, or experience.  And politeness is how we communicate in showing respect to others.  In this article I will discuss why expression and politeness are very important in communicating, especially when communicating with people from different regions or even countries which have different characteristics and cultures from ours.

         Being polite is quite complicated in any language, difficult to notice because politeness does not only involve understanding language but also the social and cultural values ​​of certain societies.  In general, politeness involves participating in social harmony and avoiding social conflict.  To be more specific, politeness in terms of linguistics or communication is something that involves a discourse or language device that is interpreted or evaluated by others as being used to maintain harmonious relationships and avoid causing problems.  Adaptation sensitively to developing social relationships involved when being polite.

       Politeness is clearly the most characteristic feature of human behavior.  In politeness there is what is called negative politeness and positive politeness.  Negative politeness means being concerned about the other person's need not to be bullied or forced, the hallmarks of negative politeness are restraint, caution and contact.  Meanwhile, positive politeness relates to the human need for social inclusion and consent.  Negative politeness also means minimizing immodesty from offensive speech acts, and positive politeness means maximizing politeness from speech acts.  Speech functions are expressed differently in different communities.  Modesty involves understanding social values ​​which govern the way social dimensions such as status, solidarity and formality are expressed.

References:

Holmes, J. (2013). An introduction to sociolinguistics. Harlow, Eng.: Longman.

(PDF) Politeness Strategy in Everyday Communication. (2020). Retrieved 22 December 2020, from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283984132_Politeness_Strategy_in_Everyday_Communication

Dialect in Aceh Besar district

 

       Dialect is the language used by a certain group of people at a certain place or time.  Because of the dialect, sometimes there is often confusion, misunderstanding or misinterpretation between certain groups of people regarding word differences in their regions.  One of the factors causing dialect differences between regions is the geographical location or region of the user group.  In this article, I will discuss the dialects between the three sub-districts (Lhoknga District, Indrapuri District, and Krueng Raya District) in Aceh Besar District.

       Among the three sub-districts there are differences in pronunciation in terms of phonology, such as the words "nyoe" and "nyo", the words meseujit and meseujit.  Many of these word changes undergo changes at the beginning of the word or at the end of the word, while only a few have changed in the middle. There were also variations in morpheme changes in prefixes, confixes and infixes such as the words "meulampoh", "seumanoe", and "seumeujid".  There is the use of the same word among the three sub-districts, namely the use of the dialect or word crew, kamoe.  These changes occur due to changes in pronounced phonemes, variations in morphemes, differences and similarities in bases, duk pakat and le, which are often used in the Aceh Besar dialect.

       Barotö hane lônjak jadèh u rumoh jih.  Gare-gare nyan, jih pakèk beungèh keu lôn.  These sentences are examples of sentences in the Aceh language, Aceh Besar dialect or also known as variations of the Aceh language.  Aceh Besar has a dialect where almost all words ending in sa become to, for example meuratö, bahatö, limöng plôh tö.  And the peculiarity of the word in the use of the Aceh Besar dialect in these three districts is the use of the word pakèk which is accompanied by a noun, for example in pakèk undangan, pakèk basa, pakèk hinda, pakèk beungèh, pakèk poh, pakèk dhet.

References:

     ANALISIS MAKNA DALAM RAGAM DIALEK LOKAL ACEH BESAR DALAM BAHASA ACEH. (2017). Eksplorasi Kekayaan Maritim Aceh Di Era Globalisasi Dalam Mewujudkan Indonesia Sebagai Poros Maritim Dunia , 1 , 158-162.

     Besar, B., & penulis :, P. (2020). Bahasa Aceh Dialek Aceh Besar - PORTALSATU.com. Diakses pada 14 Desember 2020, dari https://id.portalsatu.com/2012/12/bahasa-aceh-dialek-aceh-besar/