Ibnu Sultan, Ngusman Abdul Manaf
High school students from multiethnicity in the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 are the educated young generation who determine the development of the Indonesian language, but the perception of politeness in language has not been studied. The aims of this research are(1) to Formulate the politeness rating of directive speech acts in Indonesian based on the indirectness scale according to the perception of high school students from a combination of several ethnic groups in Indonesia. (2) Formulate similarities and differences in the level of politeness of Indonesian language directive speech acts based on the indirectness scale according to the perceptions of high school students from different ethnicities. This study uses a combined method, namely quantitative and qualitative. The data of this study is the result of a survey on the perceptions of high school students from various ethnicities on the level of politeness in the speech act of ordering in Indonesian. The respondents of this study were 150 high school students from ethnic Batak, Malay (Riau), Minangkabau, Javanese, Bugis, Sundanese, Acehnese, and Sasak in Padang City. The research instrument is the researcher himself and the survey questionnaire. Survey questionnaires were distributed online and respondents also filled in online. Quantitative data in the form of politeness perception figures and data in the form of examples of speech acts are processed qualitatively based on pragmatic theory. The results of the study are as follows. High school students from multiethnic groups in Indonesia have a perception of the politeness level of speech acts in Indonesian in order from the most polite to the least polite as follows: (1) suggestion formulation, (2) question preparation, (3) fenced performative, (4)) with a statement, (5) strong cue, (6) subtle cue, (7) imperative statement, (8) explicit performative, and (9) imperative mode sentence. High school students who have the same perception of high politeness are students from ethnic Batak with Bugis, Malay (Riau) with Javanese, Malay (Riau) with Minangkabau, Minangkabau with Javanese, Malay (Riau) with Sundanese. High school students who have the same perception of moderate level of politeness are ethnic Batak with Malay (Riau), Batak with Aceh, Batak with Sasak, Batak with Sunda, Javanese with Sasak, Javanese with Bugis, Aceh with Sasak, Sasak with Sunda, Bugis with Sasak, Javanese with Aceh, Sasak with Bugis, Javanese with Sundanese, Minangkabau with Sundanese. High school students who have the same perception of low-level politeness are ethnic Minangkabau with Sasak, Minangkabau with Bugis, Malay and Aceh, Minangkabau and Aceh, Batak with Javanese, Malay (Riau) with Sasak, Bugis with Aceh, Malay (Riau) with Bugis, Aceh with Sunda, Bugis with Sunda, and Batak with Minangkabau. © 2023 American Institute of Physics Inc.. All rights reserved.
Universitas Negeri Padang, Padang, Indonesia
