POLITENESS STRATEGIES USED IN NIKIZEFANYA TWITTER (X) ACCOUNT’S COMMENTS

• SYAHDILLA AZZAHRA VIRGIANTI
• 2025

---

Politeness is a fundamental aspect of communication in pragmatics, which serves to prevent conflict and cultivate social harmony. This study aims to identify the most dominant types of politeness strategies used in social media, especially on the Twitter (X) platform, with the @nikizefanya account as the object of research. Using a qualitative descriptive method to describe the data systematically and thoroughly, the results showed from 668 data that identified there are total of 101 data were found on positive politeness strategies with a percentage; Use in-group Identity Markers (45,5%), Notice, attend to H (hearer's interests, wants, needs, goods) (31,6%), Givegifts to H (goods, sympathy, understanding, cooperation) (9,90%), Joke (5,94%),Exaggerate (interest, approval, sympathy with H) (3,96%), Give or ask for reasons (2,97%), and found 19 data on negative politeness strategies with respective percentages; Be conventionally indirect (89,4%) and Minimize the imposition (10,5%). This research contributes to understanding how politeness functions as a tool to maintain harmonious communication and avoid conflict in the digital space.

• Politeness Strategy
• Twitter
• Social Media

https://repository.bsi.ac.id/repo/71647/POLITENESS-STRATEGIES-USED-IN-NIKIZEFANYA-TWITTER--(X)-ACCOUNT’S-COMMENTS
File full-text dikunci.