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Socio-Sragmatic Parameters of Politeness Strategies among the Sasak in the Post Elopement Rituals
Get PDFArranged marriages in Asia involve the consent and approval of family
members. However, marriages that condone elopement are shared among
the Sasak people in Lombok. The elopement entails taking away the bride
from her home without knowing her parents, close relatives, or other
family members. As such, events that occur after discovering the elopement
are the focus of this study. Post-elopement rituals are held to assuage both
sides of the families, where the Pembayun (or adat leaders) are nominated
to represent the families. The Pembayun were found to be bound by
sociopragmatics in their use of politeness strategies. The analysis of
sociopragmatics is based on the politeness theories of Brown and Levinson
(1987). A qualitative approach that involved interviews and vide
