Abstract
If children are not educated to be able to speak politely, then the tradition of polite language will fade in social life and then a generation that is arrogant, rude, and dry from the ethical values of society and religion is born. These expressions of rude and arrogant language often cause disputes and fights among students. The objectives of this study are 1) to describe politeness in Indonesian between students in the classroom, 2) to describe politeness in Indonesian between students and their teachers in the classroom. and 3) to describe politeness in Indonesian between fellow students outside the classroom. The research method used in this study is a qualitative descriptive method. The data in this study are the speeches of the fifth grade students of MIN 1 Dairi, Sidikalang District, Dairi Regency spoken by students, both students' speeches with students and students' speeches with teachers. In qualitative research, the researcher himself or the help of others is the main data collection tool. The results of this study concluded that 1) politeness in Indonesian language between fellow students in the class, namely politeness in the maxim of wisdom as many as 7 utterances, politeness in the maxim of agreement as many as 29 utterances and politeness in the maxim of sympathy as many as 1 utterance, 2) politeness in Indonesian language between students with the teacher in the class, namely politeness in the maxim of wisdom as many as 4 utterances, politeness in the maxim of humility as many as 26 utterances and politeness in the maxim of agreement as many as 4 utterances and 3) politeness in Indonesian language between fellow students outside the class, namely politeness in the maxim of agreement as many as 8 speech and politeness in the maxim of sympathy as much as 1 utterance