THE SPEECH ACT OF APOLOGIZING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Apostolovska, Jovana and Neshkovska, Silvana (2021) THE SPEECH ACT OF APOLOGIZING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. Teacher - International Journal of Education, 22. pp. 42-50. ISSN 1857-8888

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Abstract

The speech act of apologies has attracted the attention of numerous scholars who have
investigated different aspects of apologies in numerous languages. The paper at hand offers a
review of some of the key findings regarding expressing apologies and it brings forth the
specificities of the speech act of apologies in the English language in particular. For the
purposes of this study, the insights and findings obtained and presented in a number of
studies were analysed and compared. Thus, in addition to inspecting the speech act of
apologizing more closely from the prism of the linguistic strategies people employ to express
an apology (Cohen & Olshtain, 1981; Trosborg, 1995, and Ajmer, 1996), the paper also sheds
some light on the influence of different social variables such as gender, social power, social
distance and age on the use of apologies in the English language (Holmes, 1989; Ogiermann,
2007; Lynch, 2013, and Deutschmann, 2003).
Keywords: apologies, strategies, gender, age, social power, social distance

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Humanities > Languages and literature
Divisions:	Faculty of Education
Depositing User:	Prof. d-r Silvana Neshkovska
Date Deposited:	20 Apr 2023 05:33
Last Modified:	20 Apr 2023 07:43
URI:	https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/8124

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