2.2.1.4. Empty Adjectives
Studies approve that women used empty adjectives more often than men. However, Lakoff’s notion on the empty adjective is debatable. In a specific context-bound situation, empty adjectives might have strong meaning and in others very little. This comes to two assumptions, first is that women tend to discuss about their inner feeling, giving a condition where adjectives are overused. While men tend to talk about politics, sports, money and other masculine topics that do not give them a chance to overuse adjectives. Second is that there is an assumption that when a word becomes so overused it becomes empty (Penelope & Katerina 2003)
For the case of politeness, when men communicate with other men, Lakoff (1975) claims …show more content…
Politeness as a linguistic strategy
In the linguistic point of view, politenesses is more than just being polite and speak the words, but also should pay attention to the language rule; meaning and present condition of that politeness goes, so to explain the sense of politeness in the perspective of Lakoff (1973) through her book “The Logic of Politeness” gives one of major contribution to the society.
Robin Lakoff is one of the first linguists who studies politeness where she correlates the politeness theory with Grice's Cooperative Principles. Lakoff's politeness theory argues that people follow certain rules when communicating each other to avoid communication breakdowns which described in two rules below:
1. Be Clear
Basically, the first rule is based on Paul Grice's Communicative Principles that dominates the rules of politeness. Lakoff's “Be clear” means is to engage in conversation at the time they would say something that fits with the development of the conversation. Moreover, Lakoff suggests that the first rule means that the speakers speaks in sufficient quantity of information, and say what is believed by the speaker, relevant to the topic being discussed and with an unambiguous manner, clear, and with a brief
Studies approve that women used empty adjectives more often than men. However, Lakoff’s notion on the empty adjective is debatable. In a specific context-bound situation, empty adjectives might have strong meaning and in others very little. This comes to two assumptions, first is that women tend to discuss about their inner feeling, giving a condition where adjectives are overused. While men tend to talk about politics, sports, money and other masculine topics that do not give them a chance to overuse adjectives. Second is that there is an assumption that when a word becomes so overused it becomes empty (Penelope & Katerina 2003)
For the case of politeness, when men communicate with other men, Lakoff (1975) claims …show more content…
Politeness as a linguistic strategy
In the linguistic point of view, politenesses is more than just being polite and speak the words, but also should pay attention to the language rule; meaning and present condition of that politeness goes, so to explain the sense of politeness in the perspective of Lakoff (1973) through her book “The Logic of Politeness” gives one of major contribution to the society.
Robin Lakoff is one of the first linguists who studies politeness where she correlates the politeness theory with Grice's Cooperative Principles. Lakoff's politeness theory argues that people follow certain rules when communicating each other to avoid communication breakdowns which described in two rules below:
1. Be Clear
Basically, the first rule is based on Paul Grice's Communicative Principles that dominates the rules of politeness. Lakoff's “Be clear” means is to engage in conversation at the time they would say something that fits with the development of the conversation. Moreover, Lakoff suggests that the first rule means that the speakers speaks in sufficient quantity of information, and say what is believed by the speaker, relevant to the topic being discussed and with an unambiguous manner, clear, and with a brief