A comparative analysis on apology speech acts in American English and Macedonian

Koceva, Ana and Kostadinova, Dafina (2021) A comparative analysis on apology speech acts in American English and Macedonian. International Journal for Linguistic, Literary and Cultural Research Palimpsest, 6 (12). pp. 37-45.

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Abstract

The subject of analysis in this paper is the speech act of apology. The
comparative analysis was conducted in relation to the form of the speech act and the
strategies used to express it. The analysed data were obtained through an online discourse
completion task among American and Macedonian university students. The DCT includes
three situations that differ in accordance to the social distance and the social status of
the participants, and the severity of the offence. The aim of the research is to define the
pragmatic structure of apologies, by determining the possible similarities and differences
in both languages. Herein, speakers in both languages can avoid future miscommunication
and become aware of different communication styles and cultural features of the languages.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Philology
Depositing User:	Ana Koceva
Date Deposited:	27 Dec 2021 08:23
Last Modified:	27 Dec 2021 08:23
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/28954

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