“Matur nuwun”: The Value of Javanese Politeness in Corpus Web Application

Matur nuwun is an expressive utterance in Javanese used to convey certain psychological feelings to speech partners. The existence of a particular purpose in an utterance indicates the pragmatic function of the use of an utterance. In using matur nuwun, there are also used to end a conversation. In the previous studies, matur nuwun were included in the type of phatic utterance that serves to keep the communication between speakers persist. But, in the initial observation of the data was found that matur nuwun has another function, which is establishing harmony. It means, there are still some usages of matur nuwun which need to be explained. This research aims to find the function and use of matur nuwun in Javanese. The data are taken from the corpus of Javanese in corpus web application https://korpus.ui.ac.id/. The processing of corpus data is performed by using antconc (word processing application). The discussion of the function and usage of matur nuwun in this study is conducted with politeness theory. The results of this study prove that the use of matur nuwun in utterance is not only as phatic expression, but also used to maintain the balance and social relations between speakers.