Strategi Kesantunan dalam Ekspresi Du‘?’ Berbahasa Arab di Instagram: Kajian Pragmatik
Iklilah Atikoh, Dr. Arief Ma'nawi, S.S., M.Hum.
2026 | Tesis | S2 Linguistik
ABSTRACT
Arabic supplications (du‘?’) published on Instagram constitute a form of religious communication that not only conveys supplication to Allah but also represents religious practices in digital spaces. This study aims to describe the request strategies, politeness strategies, and social factors underlying the realization of Arabic du‘?’ expressions on Instagram. It employed a descriptive qualitative approach using the documentation method. The data consisted of 150 Arabic du‘?’ expressions posted by Indonesian Islamic Instagram accounts between January and December 2025. The data were analyzed using Blum-Kulka et al.'s (1989) request strategy framework, Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory, and supported by Leech's (1983) Politeness Principle.
The findings reveal that Arabic du‘?’ expressions are realized through direct request strategies, conventionally indirect request strategies, and non-conventionally indirect request strategies. Conventionally indirect requests are the most dominant because supplications are commonly expressed through descriptions of the speaker's condition, conventional prayer formulas, and Qur'anic and prophetic expressions. The politeness strategies identified include positive politeness, negative politeness, and off-record strategy. Negative politeness is predominantly realized through acknowledgements of personal weakness, confessions of sin, and the framing of requests with praise as well as the invocation of Allah's names and attributes. Furthermore, three social factors were identified, namely the role of language, the speaker's emotional closeness to the prayer, and the social function of prayer in digital spaces. The findings demonstrate that the realization of Arabic du‘?’ expressions on Instagram is shaped by the interaction of linguistic strategies, Islamic traditions, the speaker's emotional experience, and the function of digital preaching.
Keywords: du‘?’, request strategies, politeness strategies, social factors, Instagram.
Kata Kunci : Kata Kunci: du‘?’, strategi permintaan, strategi kesantunan, faktor sosial, Instagram.