The embarrassing misunderstanding

The primary purpose of the present research was to gain a better understanding of how text messaging has affected adolescent (teenagers) communication skills. This study focuses on some of the effects and likely problems arising out of the use of these text messaging. Texting is the preferred mode of contact for nearly all social and communication activities, socialization and self-expression of the adolescents. They are also the quickest to adopt text messaging. In today's world everyone in and around us are using mobile phones every day.

… : perspectives on communication in the teenage …, 2005

Journal Of Language Education and Development (JLed)

This research was about politeness strategies of students in communication by whatsapp to lecturer. This research aimed to describe positive politeness strategies and negative politeness strategies that students used in communication by whatsapp. It was descriptive research design and qualitative and quantitative approach. The data of this research was whatsapp texts of English Department Students STKIP Muhammadiyah Muara Bungo. This research used purposive technique sampling. The The method of collecting data used observational method. The technique of collecting data used Non Participant Observation Technique (NPO), recording technique, and note taking technique. In analyzing data, the writer used referential method. For data presentation, the writer used informal method The researcher found Politeness strategy that students used in communication to the lecturer by whatsapp used two strategies. These are positive politeness strategy and negative politeness strategy. The biggest pe...

SCIENCE International Journal

The introduction of rules in a given field is related to the setting of certain requirements to the products, processes or bodies that implement them and aims to ensure a certain quality. This is generally the case, but it also applies in full force to the communication process. The existence of strict rules in communication presupposes the setting of specific requirements regarding the necessary knowledge, professional skills and competencies that communicators must possess in order to achieve the desired effect, striving for professional growth and career in their organizations. In the process of communication information, emotions, feelings, ideas are exchanged. Assuming the communicators are professionally trained - then why don’t they understand each other? We will try to get to the reason in this post. For the purposes of the research, fundamental scientific formulations and methods of the theory of the nature of communications, comparative analysis, as well as examples from t...

The proceeding of The Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC) 14 – 15 November 2014, City University of Hong Kong, 2014

The increasingly widespread use of mobile text messaging or SMS (Short Message Service) as one of communication medium has become very common in many part of the world. In Indonesia, the youth have not only used SMS for keeping in touch with peers and familybut also for communicating with lecturers in an academic setting. This study investigates the shift of politeness value in SMS language. Thehighlighted issue in this study is politeness strategy employed by Indonesian students to communicate with their lecturers through SMS. To answer the highlighted issue, records of students' SMS are collected form lecturers of Faculty of Social and Political Science, University of Brawijaya. They are,then, analyzed qualitatively based on the theory of Politeness strategies, Brown-Levinson. In order to get the description about the shift of politeness pertinent to Indonesian culture, 3 students and 3 lecturers are interviewed for their opinions on language politeness emploied on the corpus data. Results indicate that most students seemed to have failed to employ appropriate politeness strategies that could lessen face-threatening acts between themselves and their lecturers. Several politeness indicators, such as: language variety, diction, terms of address, other linguistic devices and non-verbal cues, important to Indonesian culture are improperly employed in their SMS.It is also found that in case students disagree to lecturers' decision or they have personal interest, they tend to express it openly and straightforwardly to have their lecturers take action.

Al-Lisan : Jurnal Bahasa, 2022

Language politeness in social media is still often ignored. The article aims to describe teenagers' politeness strategies in social media conversations, especially in the WhatsApp group of junior high schools, senior high schools, and colleges. The research was quantitative and qualitative descriptive, and the population was complete sentences in WhatsApp group conversations. The period of recording the conversation with each group is during September 2021. The data collection technique is by exporting the conversation data to Ms. Words. The data were arranged based on the entry date, then coded using Brown & Levinson's politeness theory. The interpretation of the data classification results used the approach of Makassar's cultural perspective. The findings showed that in social media WhatsApp, the teenagers talked more frequently used three kinds of politeness strategies. 1) Bald on record involving questions, commands, and requests. Teenagers use this strategy from three-level of education. 2) Positive strategies involve jokes, identity, and paying attention. The college and high schools teenagers use jokes and identity. However, paying attention's strategy is just used by college teenagers. 3) Negative strategies include apologies, be-thankful, and questions. College and high schools teenagers use the apology and thank strategies. Nevertheless, teenagers from the high school level only used negative politeness in asking questions. In conclusion, the level of education of teenagers determines the use of politeness strategy in social media. The implication is that teachers and stakeholders pay more attention to students' language politeness building, especially in speaking politely to others, so their interaction is harmonious with their communities.

International Journal of Social Science and Humanity, 2013

Politeness is deemed vital in ensuring communication diplomacy. In unfolding adolescents' oral strategies in handling disagreement, three variables-social distance, formality of issue and power differences were comparatively analyzed between L1 and L2. Conveniently selected adolescents were asked to complete discourses. Although medium used may not show significant differences, these variables may suggest influences in how adolescents handle spoken disagreements.

World Journal on Educational Technology: Current Issues

The study is aimed to identify urgent problems in the field of communication between young men and women and other significant participants in unregulated interaction. Using standardised test methods, questionnaires were adapted for this study and were collected the primary material that reflects the essential characteristics of unregulated communication between high school students in Russia. The sample of the study was 378 people. The main results were the data indicating a serious gap between high school students' need to communicate and the actual satisfaction of this need in the interaction with other significant participants. The main meaning of young people's need for trustful reference unregulated communication is not so much the communicative component as the emotional-affective content, which consists of acceptance, support, emotional exchange and understanding on the part of other people. Currently, there is a gap between the need for unregulated confidential communication of young men and women with significant adults and the real system of such communication. The results were put into the development of recommendations that allow psychologists to build an optimal interaction with family systems and the pedagogical community to optimise communication between high school students. As a prospect for further research, the tasks of developing parent-child relationships are identified.

Malaysian Journal of Languages and Linguistics (MJLL), 2014

In this borderless world, Internet has become an important tool of communication for teenagers. It provides the opportunity to interact with thousands of people from all over the world at any time. Focusing on the new medium of synchronous computer mediated communication; namely the MSN Instant Messenger, this study seeks to examine the language and social behavior of Malaysian teenagers. This paper also discusses the notion of self-censorship, which is frequently used by teenagers in this study as a strategy to preserve politeness and maintain solidarity amongst chatters.

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021

The transition of the Russian education system in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic to online platforms marked the emergence of new practices of interpersonal communication in the teacher-student relationship system. The article deals with deviant manifestations in the online space of communications. The analysis is based on the study of semantic deviations constructed by young people in the process of communication in a changing reality. The starting point of deviations is considered as a departure from the approved norms of communication in educational system, which leads to such phenomena as trolling, gaming, etc. The influence of virtualization of education on the rethinking of the norms and practices of communication by young people is considered, and the educational space itself, due to its greater openness, becomes a platform for the implementation of these deviant practices. Analysis of the data obtained during sociological research shows the nature of the differentiation...