A Case Study on Adaptation and Politeness Strategies of International Students

Yanuarita Kusuma Permata Sari, Asih Zunaidah, Anindya Widita, Y. P. D. Kalumbang

2018

Abstract

Studying and living abroad provide people with the chance to improve their socialand cultural knowledge by experiencing the local culture and lifestyle in general. There must be quite a number of international students leaving their homelands and living in a foreign country to study. Consequently, they will have the need to adapt and to survive in the new environment. Adapting to a new place and its people (not to mention its culture) is a serious matter for them. These students cannot avoid social contacts as they live through their daily activities, at least when communicating with their classmates or a teacher in a class. In this ‘foreigner-native’ type of communication, problematic This case study is expected to provide useful insights in social adaptation strategies used by the international students. The result found that students have done strategies during their study to deal with the potential conflicts. There are two ways of politeness strategy applied by the international students to avoid a potential conflict. First is the negative politeness strategy and second is the positive politeness strategy. Students also applied convergence and divergence strategy to adapt with the differences.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Permata Sari Y., Zunaidah A., Widita A. and Kalumbang Y. (2018). A Case Study on Adaptation and Politeness Strategies of International Students. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 130-135. DOI: 10.5220/0010003700002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={Yanuarita Kusuma Permata Sari and Asih Zunaidah and Anindya Widita and Y. P. D. Kalumbang},
title={A Case Study on Adaptation and Politeness Strategies of International Students},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={130-135},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010003700002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - A Case Study on Adaptation and Politeness Strategies of International Students
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Permata Sari Y.
AU - Zunaidah A.
AU - Widita A.
AU - Kalumbang Y.
PY - 2018
SP - 130
EP - 135
DO - 10.5220/0010003700002917