Playing with Politeness in Economic Journals: The Strategy Used by Authors to Bring about Solidarity and Respect

Abstract

Brown and Levinson (1978) alongside the application onto scientific writing by Myers (1989) and persuasive tactics proposed by Mulholland (1994) . This study calculated in total of 591 times the authors employ the tactics in order to maintain solidarity and respect in their articles. Positive politeness strategies seems to be the highest frequency (258 times) than the other 3 strategies. The data also reveals that EG authors have used 8 tactics in this strategy and it seems the 3 most used tactics was; by using in-group identity marker (62 times), using in-group pronoun (59 times), and by informing readers about their research (40 times). This study clearly sees that the strategies and tactics employ by the authors in EG journal has a purposes to bring about solidarity and respect used by EGauthors in their articles somehow used to reach the demands of the academic discourse community that expects scientific language to be objective and formal however not losing its intimacy with the economic community members and this is seems in line with the nature of positive politeness strategies.