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Playing with Politeness in Economic Journals: The Strategy Used by Authors to Bring about Solidarity and Respect

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  • Hamuddin, Budianto
  • , Dahler
  • Wardi, Jeni

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Post print in ISOL 3, Universitas Andalas, Padang. 2017. This study tries to analyze the dominance strategy of politeness used by authors in order to bring about solidarity and respect in selected economic journals. The corpus consists of 78.064 words from 12 different articles from one reputable Economic journal in the United States namely the Economic Growth Journal (EG). The data were taken from six years latest where this study conducted in 2012. The conceptual framework of the present study based on the politeness theory by Brown and Levinson (1978) alongside the application onto scientific writing by Myers (1989) and persuasive tactics proposed by Mulholland (1994). This study calculated in a total of 591 times the authors employ the tactics in order to maintain solidarity and respect in their articles. Positive politeness strategies seem to be the highest frequency (258 times) than the other 3 strategies. The data also reveals that EG authors have used 8 tactics in this strategy and it seems the 3 most used tactics was; by using in-group identity marker (62 times), using an in-group pronoun (59 times), and by informing readers about their research (40 times). This study clearly sees that the strategies and tactics employed by the authors in EG journal has a purposes to bring about solidarity and respect used by EG authors in their articles somehow used to reach the demands of the academic discourse community that expects scientific language to be objective and formal however not losing its intimacy with the economic community members and this is seems in line with the nature of positive politeness strategies.

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  • Hamuddin, Budianto & , Dahler & Wardi, Jeni, 2018. "Playing with Politeness in Economic Journals: The Strategy Used by Authors to Bring about Solidarity and Respect," INA-Rxiv p75gw, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:inarxi:p75gw
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/p75gw
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