Rudeness in Students’ Interaction

This research deals with rudeness in students’ interaction. The objectives of this
study were (1) to analyze the types of rude language used by students in the
classroom interaction, (2) to describe the realization of rude language used by
students in classroom interaction, and (3) to explain the reasons of using rude
language which are used by students in the classroom interaction. The research
was conducted by using descriptive qualitative design. The data of this study were
the utterances of students consisting rude words, phrases, clauses, which are
gathered from the verbal interaction done by students in the classroom. The data
were collected by observation and interview. The technique of data analysis was
interactive model. The result shows that (1) all types of rudeness occurred in
students’ interaction, and the dominant was rudeness of word. (2) not all
realization in each rudeness were used by students. For rudeness of word used in
(5) five ways, rudeness of action was used in (3) three ways, and inaction
rudeness was used in (2) two ways. The reasons of using rudeness are to show
emotion, to make a joke, to show power, and to clarify something