Email this article 
Hide
Show all
Impoliteness Addressed to Different Genders and their Responses in The Kitchen Nightmares, a TV Reality Show
Abstract
This paper reveals the impoliteness strategies addressed to different genders and their corresponding responses. The data source is the video transcript of a TV reality show, The Kitchen Nightmares season 6 episode 2 for substantial and technical considerations. As it contains impolite expressions, abundant data can be gained to clarify the focal points. The subjects are the host and male and female participants in that show. This study uses a descriptive qualitative approach. In collecting the data, the researcher identifies the utterances containing impoliteness and their responses in the transcript. Then, they are classified and compared to discover the impoliteness strategies and their responses related to gender differences. It is discovered that, in this show, the types of impoliteness strategies addressed to male addressees are not different from those of female participants. Regarding responses, it is found out that male participants respond to the impoliteness differently from the females. It can be concluded from the show that gender difference is not effective as recipients of impoliteness, but it is operative as producers of the response towards impoliteness.
Keywords: entertainment, gender, impoliteness, responses to impoliteness
Full Text:
PDFReferences
Aprilliyani, V, Hamzah, & Wahyuni D. (2019). Impoliteness strategies used by male and female haters of Habib Rizieq and Felix Siauw found in Instagram comments. Journal of English Language and Literature, 8(1), 158-167.
Aydinoglu, N. (2013). Politeness and impoliteness strategies: An analysis of gender differences in Geralyn I. Horton plays. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 83, 473-482.
Birner, B. J. (2013). Introduction to pragmatics. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Bousfield, D. & Miriam A. L. (2008). Impoliteness in language: Studies on its interplay with power in theory and practice. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter.
Bousfield, D. (2008). Impoliteness in interaction. Philadelphia and Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Brown, P. & Levinson. S. (1987). Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Culpeper, J. (1996). Towards an anatomy of impoliteness. Journal of Pragmatics, 25, 349-367.
Culpeper, J., Bousfield, D., & Wichmann, A. (2003). Impoliteness revisited: With special reference to dynamic and prosodic aspects. Journal of Pragmatics, 35, 1545-1579.
Culpeper, J. (2005). Impoliteness and entertainment in the television quiz show: The weakest link. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, 1, 37-38.
Fairclough, N. (1998). Political discourse in the media: An analytical framework. Sociolinguistic, 17, 125-139.
Gallois, C., Ogay, T., & Giles, H. (2006). Communication accommodation theory: A look back and a look ahead. In W.B. Gudykunst (ed.), Theorizing about Communication and Culture. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 121-148.
Hadi, S. (2020). Impoliteness in UFC press conference. Unpublished Thesis. Surabaya: UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.
Holmes, J. (1995). Women, men, and politeness. London: Longman.
Jumanto, J. (2020). Pondering a global BIPA: Politeness and impoliteness in verbal interactions. Journal of Pragmatics Research, 2(2), 97-112.
Lakoff, R. (1973). Language and women’s place. Language in Society, 2(1), 145-180.
Leech, G. (1983). Principle of pragmatics. London: Longman.
Levinson, S. (1983). Pragmatics. London: Cambridge University Press.
Mills, S. (2003). Gender and politeness. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Mills, S. (2005). Gender and impoliteness. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture, 1(2), 263-280. DOI: 10.1515/jplr.2005.1.2.263.
Plug, I., Stommel, W., Lucassen, P., Olde Hartman, T., Van Dulmen, S., & Das, E. (2020). Do women and men use language differently in spoken face-to-face interaction? A scoping review. Review of Communication Research, 9, 43-79. Retrieved from https://www.rcommunicationr.org/index.php/rcr/article/view/77.
Rahmawati, L. E., Hidayat, N., & Kurniawan, A. (2021). Impoliteness of directive speech acts in online Indonesian language learning. Journal of Pragmatics Research, 3(2), 97-107.
Shofyah, N. W. (2015). The use of impoliteness strategies in “Easy” a movie. Unpublished Thesis. Yogyakarta: UIN Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta.
Tannen, D. (1990). You just don’t understand. New York: Ballerine Books.
Yule, G. (1996). Pragmatics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18326/jopr.v3i2.131-146
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
Copyright (c) 2021 A. Dzo'ul Milal, Angga Cahya Pramono
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Contact Us: Jl. Lingkar Salatiga Km. 02, Pulutan, Sidorejo, Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia