Iqbal Nurul Azhar
University of Trunojoyo,
Madura, Indonesia
Abstract
This paper proposes a theory the-so-called philanthropy language
theory through linguistic perspective. Philanthropy language is defined in
simple way as "a language style that expresses love and care to
others." There are two maxims of philanthropy languages namely, maxim of
proposition and maxim of affection. An expression contains proposition maxim when
its proposition point at six situations, namely: the proposition shows the feelings of love
and affection, the proposition puts the subject matter as a shared
property, the proposition puts the
expression makers/writer and the listeners/readers in a brotherhood situation,
the proposition does not attack the others’ face, the proposition introduces
reformations yet the form of expression does not violate maxim 1, 2, 3, and 4,
and the proposition contributes something to others even though it is only in
the form of an expectation. An expression contains affection maxim when it
carries three characteristics that give a feeling of comfort since it affects
others to: (1) agree with the proposition to act or react positive, (2) follow
proposition not to act or react negative, and (3) not do anything to avoid
negative attitude. Philanthropy language utilizes some peculiar lexical markers
such as: love, compassion, peace, prosperity, comfort, unity, truth, equality,
friendship, happiness, unity, we, us, all of us, you and I, and many others of
language philanthropist. Philanthropy language also has a unique syntactic rule
that is “it is better to immediately disobey syntactic rules rather than to say
something cruel to others".
Keywords: philanthropy
language, maxims, construction
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