Nyuwun Pangapunten: Local Genius of Javanese Society in Speaking on Web Application of Javanese Corpus

Abstract

In Javanese society, an apology expression tends to be initially stated in the beginning of a speech, even though the speech is not necessarily wrong. An apology expresses a remorse for having hurt or disturbed the interlocutor. This research aims to explain the strategy of apology expression (nyuwun pangapunten) as a local genius of Javanese society in having a conversation. This study focuses on the function and use of apology speech acts in Javanese. The data of this research are retrieved from a web application of Javanese corpus at www.korpus.ui.ac.id; it is a collection of words of Javanese language from written sources, both printed and online media from various regions in Java from 1950 to 2010. The words are processed by using AntConc application. The discussion about the function and use of the apology expression strategy is held under the theory of politeness. The results of this research prove that the use of an apology expression in Javanese does not only serve to express refusal and to start conversation, but also is used to ask permission to perform something.

Politeness in Addressing and Requesting Used by the Salespersons to the Customers at UMC E-commerce

“…Before uttering her requests, the salesperson used ngapunten [sorry]. The word ngapunten [sorry] is from Javanese krama, which is a variation from nyuwun pangapunten [sorry] (Fauziah et al, 2019). Ngapunten [sorry] from Javanese krama means saying sorry very politely.…”