Nabilah Fairuz Al-Bantany 2013 Review of Related Studies

26 ELESP which could be seen in their written messages. Based on the classification, the researcher analyzed the politeness strategy which was mostly used by the students when they sent written messages to the lecturers. The relation of illocutionary acts and politeness itself can be seen in Leech‟s 1983 theory. Leech states that politeness is often a function of both: the standing features, such as the social distance between participants, and the dynamic features, such as the kind of illocutionary acts which are made by the speaker to the hearer request, advice, command, etc in order to produce appropriate politeness based on certain situation. Therefore, in this research, the focus was more on the function of politeness as dynamic features which used illocutionary acts to produce politeness by conducting politeness strategies. In our society, we must communicate with other people in a certain context and situation. As the example is in the educational context, the students have to communicate with the lecturers due to some needs and condition. Here, language is used as the media for communication to express our meaning. When we are communicating, especially in a written way, we have to consider the language that we use because it may differ from one social context to another. The reason why we use different language in different social context to express our meaning is to show politeness. One way to be polite in communicating is by using some strategies of politeness. Those strategies can be shown in our acts, particularly illocutionary acts, because we have to focus on both the language use that shows our politeness and the acts that we perform to the interlocutor. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 27 Figure 2.1 Diagram of Theoretical Framework Students Written communication Linell, 2002 and McQuail Windahl, 1993 Speech acts Searle, 1969 Locutionary acts Illocutionary acts Perlocutionary acts Politeness Strategies Brown Levinson, 1987 Bald on record Positive politeness Negative politeness Off record PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI