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I’m sorry, Sir. I’m late to give comment about the journal “POLITENESS IN REQUESTS: SOME RESEARCH FINDINGS RELEVANT FOR INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS”. It’s because I’m not in good condition, so I can’t think clearly and give comment as soon as possible. Hope you can understand it. Thank you. :)

After I read the journal, I think the journal is a good thing for us as Student of English Department. It is because we can learn about the relationship between indirect and politeness are viewed as overlapping or mutually excluding categories by Romanian compared to other nationalities, such as the Brtitish and the Hebrew. It gives we more informations to know and learn about another culture out of Indonesia. The good things from this journal are it tried to find out whether Romanians associate politeness with conventional indirectness, as Blum Kulka asserts, or they consider non-conventional indirectness as more polite. It identifies about some similarities between the answers of the Romanian respondents and Blum Kulka’s respondents.

Besides the good things, this journal also has negative aspects. I think we can’t decide about something is polite or unpolite, even it’s from Romanian, British or Hebrew. It’s because every country and people have their own culture and habit. Those also have their own rule to determine the politeness in requests. So, the analysis about the politeness in requests of Romanian compared with British and Hebrew based on Blum Kulka’s research can’t be verified. This journal also doesn’t give specific informations about the research. There is no conversation or another way to survey the respondents beside the scale of politeness and directness.

If we talk about the reflection of this journal to Indonesian politeness culture, I think there is no direct reflection to Indonesian politeness culture itself. Perhaps, we can say that this journal gives the reflection for Indonesian people who want to increase their knowledge in learning Politeness requests of other country (Romanian). As we know, every country has their own culture especially in politeness requests. We can’t claim weather Indonesian culture is more polite or unpolite than others. It’s because culture and rule of a country can’t be references to culture and rule of other country. We can just learn it as well as we can.
Thank You.

Habibah
10420166/7B

I think this article is good enough especially for the students of university. this article explain about politeness in requests and this article provide things that can help the people asked more polite. There are some comparison between the answer of other respondents that can be looked in the table in page 132 about politeness scale and directness scale. the factor are same like mood, derivable, obligation, statement, suggestory, formulae, want statement, hedget performative, query prepartory and hints.

I'd like to comment the journal that had you given.

I have read an article entitled "POLITENESS IN REQUESTS: SOME RESEARCH FINDINGS RELEVANT FOR INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS" by Aura Codreanu, PhD, MA, MSc, Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies, Brasov, Romania and Alina Debu, MA, Teacher of Romanian language, Fagaras, Romania.
The paper tells about the analysis between the relationship of indirectness and politeness in requests. The project was done to find out to what extent politeness and indirectness are viewed as overlapping or mutually excluding categories by Romanians compared to other nationalities, such as the British and the Hebrew.

The researcher tried to identify if there are any similarities between the answers of the Romanians respondents and those of Blum Kulka's respondents. This identification is applied by designing a situation and the respondents have to answer the question by choosing the eight-descriptive category(utterances). The eight categories were typed randomly. The respondents were asked to rate each utterances on a one to eight point scale for either "directness" or "politeness".

The weakness of this project is there were only seven Romanians respondents that showed they were students not the native Romanians. We do not know whether or not the respondents are the native Romanians. It is not effective when seven respondents have to choose the eight utterances and typed them in the directness and politeness ordered. They may choose or make more than one result. In terms of directness and indirectness, and politeness, the answers provided by the respondents were somewhat similar to the previous choices. The singularity answer was not taken into account. However, the survey is to be carried out on a larger group of respondents.

The comparison among the Romanians respondents' answer, the English respondents' answer, and the Hebrew respondents' answer, proposes two possible directions of investigations. The first direction is focused on the relationship between what the person believes to be polite in a certain situation and what the same person perceive as polite. The second direction is focused on checking the findings of the current research against a larger group of Romanian respondents.
The good things of the journal are that we can know if the level of politeness can not be the same. we think that our way to request is polite, but probably not for the others. also the researcher gives some tables as the measurements, so it seems that result can be considered as a high quality of research. in addition, the researcher also provides the situation which is simple and useful. that will make the respondents easier to answer the questions given by the researcher.

The slight differences among Romanian, Hebrew, and English appear when it comes to politeness. The three languages place the utterances on different position. In this respect, Romanian seems again to overlap with Hebrew in which the respondents place the utterances in similar position.
The conclusion is Romanian is pretty close to Hebrew in terms of the linguistics strategies employed. However, Romanian more likely to encounter conventional indirect polite strategies compared to Hebrew and English.

Thank you sir
Anik Puji Lestari/10420061/7E

I have read the journal, the title is “Politeness in Requests: Some Research Findings Relevant for Intercultural Encounters Politeness in Requests: Some Research Findings Relevant for Intercultural Encounters”. The context of this journal is very complete and easy to understand. We as no English speaker can understand it clearly. I think the writer tells the problems why he or she research it and she give many resources that make this journal better. As journal as usual the writer makes research first, so we can know that the research it’s true. And in this journal the writer using questionnaire to make the research fact and the reader can trust it.
The strength of this journal are the writer using factual data in this research this because the writer make observation to many respondents from Rumanian, English, Hebrew people. Second is the questionnaire are easy to answer. When we are seeing the questionnaire in the appendix, we can know that it’s very easy to understand and to answer. Third is in this journal the writer have many resources and many arguments from the expert of this material.
On the other side, there is a weakness from this journal. First there just three country that investigate. In this journal told about politeness in request: research findings relevant for intercultural encounters, so i think there must many countries to investigate. And some of the information are uncompleted like the table, I get a little bit confuse to read the table.
According to our country Indonesia that Indonesian people have a culture that they always say something but have another meaning at the same time. Many of Indonesian people using politeness in their words because they think its not polite to told their purpose directly.
(Lailatul Fitriyah/ 10420388/ 7B)

This is my comment about, journal.dresmara.ro/issues/volume2_issue2/14_codreanu_debu.pdf,

Based on the journal that I read , I found this journal gives a lot of
knowledge that we may not understand it right . Maybe all this we learn
English , expressions such as demand in the conversation was limited to
basic understanding . After reading this journal , I became better
understand that the language used in a conversation must be adapted to
the cultural background of each individual , so there is no miss
communication . In the journal explained that to reveal the expression
of both requests and polite will make more people appreciate our request
and will respond according to what we expect . Sometimes, we forget to
talk if it is an outsider and often forget about the culture of the
people . This journal is very useful for me in particular and all the
students taking English language courses in general . I personally ,
highly recommend this journal to be read by all students , in order to
gain a deeper understanding of the query expression to be more polite .
>>Mukhamad Subchan 7C

Actually I need to work hard to read it. based on the journal, the journal talks about the politeness in Romania and in other countries. that journal give us many information about it in request in the other country,and knowledge about how to request include indirectness and politeness.

after reading the journal. we can see that the journal tells about the relationship between indirect and politeness by Romanian compared with England and Hebrew. in the journal we can also see one of the issues of major concern.It comes to intercultural encounters that is the socio-linguistic discourse of politeness. Before presenting the research project supporting the aim of the article,it needs some background to the issue of politeness in requests through indirect strategies. In the journal, the writers tried to find out between Romanians associate politeness with conventional indirectness, as Blum Kulka asserts. Moreover, we tried to find out if the journal has any similarities between the answers of the Romanian respondents and those of Blum Kulka’s respondents. In order to attain these objectives, the researcher used a method to analyze the relationship between indirectness and politeness in request by discourse completion test (DCT).

The journal that we have already read has several weaknesses. one of the weakness is the authenticity of the situations is limited. It means that, the researcher only used seven students of Romanians’ students. we think that way is not effective one because the participants were not the native Romanians. In our opinion, this research should be taken many respondents to get effective result. After that, the hypothetical nature of the situations simplifies the complexity of interaction in real conversation.

The disadvantages of the journal used appropriate method by called discourse completion test (DCT). we think that the method can be applied directly because the participants coming from the different cultural background. So, the result is that Romanian is pretty close to Hebraw in terms of the linguistic strategies employed. we have to remember that every place has different culture.

The journal is about the analyzis of the the relationship between indirectness and politeness in requests. One of
redundance,you may choose one of the issues or one of major concerns
when it comes to intercultural encounters is the socio linguistic discourse of politeness. The generally of the journal is viewed as common sense knowledge and hence prone to misunderstandings may become substantiated information and assumptions contributing to a better approach to intercultural encounters between.
It discussed about the comparison of three languages; Rumanian, Hebrew, and British, of which one the most polite of three languages implementing in asking requests based on some criterion given by the researchers. There are some parts of its discussion, those are directness and indirectness; conventional and non-conventional. The article differs which one of three languages that is most polite in requests.
In this research, the researchers provided such discourse completion test (DCT) which consisted of a situation that would be done by respondents (imaginary situation). The researchers only took 10 respondents who mastery in each of languages to complete the test given. As the result, the researchers found that there were 7 respondents who chose the same strategy; query preparatory, which are equally polite and indirect, they were categorized as query preparatory category. On the contrary, there are 2 respondents who were contrast with 7 respondents, they were categorized as want statement category. At last, there was only 1 respondent who was categorized as the hedged performatives and hints.

The conclusion to be drawn based on the findings and after the data analysis is that while most respondents (i.e. seven) choose the same strategy (i.e.query preparatory) as an individual manner of self- expression, as well as a strategy perceived equally polite and personally use in a specific situation. Hedged performatives as polite strategies are ranked second in Hebrew, and first or second in Romanian. The current research also points out to the fact that in Romanian we are more likely to encounter conventional indirect polite strategies compared to Hebrew and English.


Novi Indra Astuti 7B/ 10420151

After I’ve read this kind of journal entitled "POLITENESS IN REQUESTS: SOME RESEARCH FINDINGS RELEVANT FOR INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS" written by Aura Codreanu, PhD, MA, MSc, Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies, Brasov, Romania and Alina Debu, MA, Teacher of Romanian language, Fagaras, Romania, the first thing I’ve got is about the purpose of the writer in writing this journal. Here, the writer wants to know the relationship between indirectness and politeness in requests. In finding out this relationship, the writer compares this kind of indirectness and politeness in requests between Romanians to British and Hebrew. The second purpose is to to provide an example of the socio linguistics instruments that can be employed in this research. After holding this research, the writer hopes the research can give contribution in education. The writer tried to find out whether Romanians associate politeness with conventional indirectness, as Blum Kulka asserts, or they consider non-conventional indirectness as more polite. Later on, the writer also wants to know is there any similarities between the answers of the Romanian respondents and Blum Kulka’s respondents. To collect the data, the writer uses DCT (the discourse completion test). The procedure is by asking the respondents to engage in a conversation about a certain ordinary problem. The result is the writer found seven from ten respondents choose the same strategy as an individual manner of self expression as well as a strategy perceived equally polite and indirect, the other two respondents gives contradict responses. The conclusion gotten is Romanian is pretty close to Hebrew in terms of the linguistic strategies. However, the current research also points out to the fact that in Romanian we are more likely to encounter conventional indirect polite strategies compared to Hebrew and English.

In my opinion, each country in this world has different standard politeness. For example, in Indonesia, the young citizen call someone older than them or students call their teacher by stating their name without “Mr. or Miss/Mrs (Bapak atau Ibu)” is not polite. However, in USA is opposite. That’s why politeness cannot be measured because each country has each politeness standard and politeness is something abstract.

Wasis Purwaningsih / 10420219 / 7A

Dear Mr. Akmal
I think the journal is not complete. Yeah, in my point of view it doesn't tell about level and examples of politeness. So, Sir, you can give me examples politeness in sentences or conversation. I have seen in the article that different languages and cultures have different levels of politeness. Example: in Mexico, watch where you place your hands. Hands on the hips sends the message that you're annoyed or angry. Standing with your hands in your pockets is disrespectful, but in Russia, that thing is no problem.Next, at German. If we're invited to a private home for dinner, make sure we bring a gift. Wine, sweets or flowers are all good options, but bouquets should have an odd number of flowers (except 13) as an even number is bad luck. Other politeness in German, men should walk on the left side of a woman. All right Sir, your journal makes me excited. Because of your journal, I am interested to read articles about politeness. I don't give my comment to your journal, because, I think your journal is detail but not complete. Yeah, I just share my experience through read articles about politeness.

Regard
Syifau Khoirun Nisa / 10420095

Thanks before, you are the best lecture, you are not only give me a leaning process in English for Hotel but you also give me some techniques to online like this. I think the article ( "POLITENESS IN REQUESTS: SOME RESEARCH FINDINGS RELEVANT FOR INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS" by Aura Codreanu, PhD, MA, MSc, Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies, Brasov, Romania and Alina Debu, MA, Teacher of Romanian language, Fagaras, Romania )is interesting for me. The article tells about the relationship between politeness and indirectness in request. The research project was undertaken to find out to what extent politeness and indirectness are viewed as overlaping categories by Romanians compared to other nationalities such as the British and the Hebrew.That in a country has a rule or a norm of civility individual in speaking or comportment to a person. So we do not wrong of defining that language we have to study kinds of sorts of rules of civility in the country.This journal can help us to establish a relationship with the outside of our culture in interpreting assumptions or notions of propriety outside our culture. I think it's very important to read it especially for us, as the students of english department. It's important to know the politeness of how the people making requests in other countries especially in English, Hebrew, and Romanian.

The journal gives us many information about the politeness and indirectness in request in the different country, it gives us more information and knowledge about how to request include indirectness and politeness. The conclusion that the researcher could draw is that Romanian is pretty close to Hebrew in terms of the linguistic strategies employed. However, the current research also points out to the fact that in Romanians are more likely to encounter conventional indirect polite strategies compared to Hebrew and English.

Indonesia has many culture in each region, for example in Central Java, the people is very polite with another people because
they
have a good tradition such as respecting other people both young and old without looking their wealth. So, I am proud as a Indonesian people, especially Central Java's people.


By Dhina Martianing Tristanti / 10420144/ 7B

Thanks Sir, I have new experience from this forum. In my opinion about POLITENESS IN REQUESTS it's very important to read, especially for us, as the students of english department. This journal is talking about the relationship between Romania, Hebrew and UK. It’s very great journal because it can show the differences between some country. Although it’s different, Rumanian is almost the same with to Hebrew in their linguistics strategy. It shows that Rumanian face the more conventional politeness than Hebrew. Every places have their own culture. We can’t judge their country. We cannot say if Indonesia are more polite than another country because in our view there may be differences between some country. Cause every places has their own cultur. This journal can give me the sudden realization that language is the most important thing to have a good achievement in different culture or environment.By understanding it, we can communicate with others easily without feels worry about misunderstanding of it. Every countries have their own rules, so we have to know and learn the research like this one. We have to learn more about it in order to master the expressions of polite request and use it correctly.

I have read a journal entitled "POLITENESS IN REQUESTS:SOME RESEARCH FINDINGS RELEVANT FOR INTERCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS" by Aura CODREANU and Alina DEBU, Romania.

The journal tells about relationship between indirectness and politeness in requests. It was between Romanians and other nationalities, such as the British and the Hebrew. There are some aims to be achieved by the researcher. The researcher tries to identify if there are any similarities and differences between the answers of the Romanians respondents, the British, and the Hebrew in requesting in terms of indirectness and politeness.

The Strength of the journal: The journal used appropriate method by called discourse completion test (DCT) because the method can be applied directly to participants coming from different cultural background. So, the conclusion is that Romanian is pretty close to Hebraw in terms of the linguistic strategies employed.

The Weakness of the journal: The researcher only used seven students of Romanians’ students. In my opinion, it is not effective because they were not the native Romanians. Then, the hypothetical nature of the situations simplifies the complexity of interaction in real conversation.


If we are compare with Indonesia, it is clearly different. Indonesia is a country that the majority of citizen has the decency in behavior. The thing that distinguishes Indonesia with other countries.

Ainunun/ 7B/ 10420367
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to give comment about the journal “Politeness in Request”.
This journal gives much information to the readers, for example, the scale of politeness in Romanian, Hebrew, and English. There are differences cultures of each country when they face the same situation.
I think this article will help many people who want to do research about politeness, because it consists of some information about the theory of politeness. Otherwise, there are table information between Romanian and other country. In Romanian, the most people choose hedged performative to respond the situation when they face a problem. It means that Romanian conclude have high politeness.
On the other hand, the weakness of this article about the table data, I think the table data has to show the information clearly. Accordingly, the readers can understand the article clearly.
That is all my comment about the article. Thank you.