Conference Proceedings International Conference on Education Innovation and Social Science
2023: Proceedings International Conference on Education Innovation and Social Science

A Model of Cross-Cultural Language Politeness for Tourists in The Lake Toba Region of Indonesia

Elza Leyli Lisnora Saragih (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
M Mulyadi (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
Khairina Nasution (Universitas Sumatera Utara)
Mhd Pujiono (Universitas Sumatera Utara)



Article Info

Publish Date
13 Oct 2023

Abstract

This paper discusses the politeness model for tourism actors in the Lake Toba area. Today's globalization allows us to easily travel to various parts of the world. Communication between countries with different cultural backgrounds occurs massively. Cultural differences between communicators can lead to understanding. For this reason, this research is very important to do. This study discusses the model of language politeness between countries with a cross-cultural perspective. The research was conducted on local and foreign tourism actors and tourists in the Lake Toba area. This place is the second largest international tourist destination in Indonesia after the island of Bali. This research is a descriptive qualitative using a sociopragmatic approach with cross-cultural studies. Dialogue between tourism actors and tourists is used as a source of data recorded by researchers. Furthermore, the utterances in the dialogue were analyzed using the equivalent and agih techniques. The results of the study show that there are differences in language politeness model between tourists and foreign tourists and domestic tourists.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

iceiss

Publisher

Subject

Education Social Sciences

Description

International Conference on Education Innovation and Social Science (ICEISS) is organized by the Accounting Education Study Program, Faculty of Education, Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta, Indonesia. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for the researchers, education practitioners, ...