Implementation of Leech's General Strategy of Politeness Theory used by Students when Having Conversations with Teachers in the Context of the Teaching and Learning Process Via Whatsapp

This study aims to explore the primary data of speech and describe in more detail the form of language politeness used by students in speaking when interacting with teachers in the context of teaching and learning conversations through the WhatsApp application. This research focuses on analyzing all utterances used by students that are included in the principles of language politeness based on Leech's General Strategy of Politeness theory. The research approach used is qualitative approach with explorative descriptive method. In collecting data, this study used the listening method with explorative recording technique, documentation technique, and note-taking technique as well as unstructured interview method. The collected data were analyzed by using descriptive analysis method. The data of this research is in the form of students' written speech in WhatsApp. The result shows that based on the students' data, there are a total of 321 data utterances which are divided into seven forms of language politeness utterances included in the theory of language politeness by Leech (2014), namely generosity maxim 1 utterance, tact maxim 3 utterances, modesty maxim 7 utterances, obligation maxim (of S to O) 297 utterances, obligation maxim (of O to S) 5 utterances, agreement maxim 4 utterances, feeling reticence maxim 4 utterances.