Abstract :
Speech act in speak to the politeness it is a set of rules of conduct
established and agreed upon by a particular community. Speech act in speak to the
politeness on activities of buying and selling at the traditional market at Tanjung
studied with pragmatic reviews. The scope of this study focused on the maxim of
policy, acceptance, generosity, humility, agreement and conclusions. The aim of
this study is to describe the maxim of language politeness in process selling and
buying transactions in traditional market at tanjung. The method used in this study
is the determination of research subject or general description of study includes
the location of the study, data and data source. This method of collection used the
method of observation, interview, and record the data used qualitative descriptive.
base on the method of analyzing this study can be observed about the maxim of
politeness as benchmark of language politeness in intracting with the seller in
traditional market at tanjung kecamatan labuhan haji Lombok timur. Base on
conducted the data analysis, researcher could taken conclusions that the
communication made by the sellers and buyers has been fairly polite, because the
longer one’s speech the greater the politeness that is done by the opponent their
said. This can be seen from the speech acts of language speech in the selling and
buying activities in traditional market at tanjung kecamatan Labuhan Haji.
Key words: speak to the politeness, seller and buy