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This paper is to survey and analyze the meaning and usage of politeness. For that, I studied and analyzed the meaning and usage of politeness in Korean, English and Jeju Dialect. Generally speaking, many people know the meaning of politeness in Korean and English. Specially Korean people acted with politeness but didn’t know the meaning and usage of politeness. Politeness is an important rule to guide the whole communication, not just local and unessential parts in every life. There are two meanings of politeness: the conceptual meaning and the mental(psychological) meaning. The conceptual meaning of politeness is general meaning and the mental(psychological) meaning is the internal and mental meaning of a person. These two meanings are very important in interpersonal communication. Like this, politeness is a very important factor. However, middle and high school students in Jeju don’t know the meaning of politeness correctly, but university students know the meaning of politeness well. Many Middle and High school students don’t know and act with politeness but University students know and act with politeness. So, in this paper I analyzed the meaning & usage of politeness in their communication. In conclusion, they didn’t know the meaning of politeness and didn’t use the politeness correctly.