SYNTACTIC IMPOLITENESS FEATURES IN SCHOOL LINGUISTIC LANDSCAPES

Abstract

This study aims to identify and analyze forms of syntactic impoliteness in the linguistic landscape of school environments. The linguistic landscape, which visually represents language in public school spaces, should ideally reflect proper and polite language use. However, out of 210 samples analyzed, only 16 exhibited syntactic politeness, while 194 did not. Among the 194 instances, 10 forms of syntactic impoliteness were identified, including imperative sentences without modalization, incomplete syntactic constructions, ambiguous sentence structure, unnatural sentence segmentation, excessive syntactic compression, mixed code without clear syntactic structure, structural redundancy, structural inconsistency with spelling, foreign language structural dominance, and use of non-standard words. These findings indicate a lack of adherence to syntactic rules and language politeness norms in school texts. Therefore, teachers and school authorities need to actively monitor and revise visual texts to promote a polite and educational language environment.