The Effectiveness of Polite Language in Social Behavior

Abstract

Linguistic politeness which is an important issue in sociolinguistics is social behavior because it plays a useful role in human characters. On the other hand, it shows personality and represents the culture of a nation, and even represents the background of the people. The differences in using politeness find a place in conversational talk and are also seen among the young generations who are studying in different educational institutions. This research aims to investigate the effectiveness of polite language in social behavior that avoids clashes and runs good relations among human beings in social relationships. We developed a set of questionnaires that were used to collect data from male and female graduate students. We gave the questionnaires to the male and female students of eight different educational institutions and collected the primary data from questionnaires in which they answer all the questions in sequential order. We have used statistical methods to analyze the datasets that expose the politeness in using language between male and female students. The result shows some differences in linguistic behavior between male and female students and both male and female students have different aspects of linguistic behavior that shows politeness in conversational talk that avoids clashes and runs good relation among human being in social relationship. The majority of male and female students avoid slang language and they always talk softly they also maintain politeness that helps them to run good relationships among themselves in society when they talk to others.