ABSTRACT
A student who is a prospective elementary school teacher must be able to provide examples of good and polite behavior, attitudes, and speech. A person’s polite speech reflects direct or indirect communication through social media, which is currently the primary communication medium amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This study aimed to describe the existing impoliteness in social media PGSD FIP UNY students. The type of research used is the population’s analysis is content with the active student in Elementary School Teacher Education Study Program Faculty of Education, State University of Yogyakarta. The sampling technique used purposive sampling. Data collection techniques divide into three techniques, documentation, observation, and literature study. This study’s data were PGSD UNY students’ utterances written on social media, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Twitter. The method used to analyze the data used the content analysis schema technique, according to Krippendorf. This study indicates that students PGSD FIP UNY are still doing some impoliteness in their social media. Forms of impoliteness language include: (1) maxim of wisdom, (2) maxim of generosity, (3) variations maxims awards, (4) maxim of simplicity, (5) maxims of agreement, (6) maxim of generosity and agreement, (7) maxim of wisdom and consensus.
