Politeness and Partnership: Analyzing Mutual Cooperation in English Textbook Dialogues

Abstract

Mutual cooperation is one of Indonesian cultures that is known to show togetherness and solidarity among individuals. Aside from being known to preserve cultural values, mutual cooperation is also one of the dimensions in the Pancasila Student Profile, a character education that is included in the Merdeka Curriculum. Along with the practice of mutual cooperation, politeness also becomes a significant part of it. This study focuses on analyzing the mutual cooperation through the use of politeness strategies that stem from politeness theory by Brown & Levinson (1987) in the dialogue texts of the junior high school English textbook “Buku PR Interaktif Bahasa Inggris." This study applies qualitative descriptive in analyzing the data. For the results, this study found various numbers of applied politeness strategies that represent mutual cooperation in the textbook dialogues. This study is expected to help teachers and students in realizing the importance of mutual cooperation representation in textbooks since it does not only display teamwork but also other elements included in the dimension of mutual cooperation as a part of the Pancasila Student Profile