Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the Apology Speech Act ‘Sorry’
Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of the Apology Speech Act ‘Sorry’
Author(s): Deyana PenevaSubject(s): Pragmatics, Computational linguistics
Published by: Шуменски университет »Епископ Константин Преславски«
Keywords: apology; performatives; quantitative analysis; reference corpus; ‘sorry’ classifications;
Summary/Abstract: The paper dwells on the quantitative and qualitative analysis of an apology speech act in spoken language discourse. The data in the analysis are taken from British National Corpus of spoken language considering a particular speech act and namely, the speech act of apology and in the present paper – the performative adjective ‘sorry’. The paper focuses on the description of the reference corpus, the purposes of the quantitative analysis, followed by a detailed overview of the basic sorry patterns, the quantitative analysis itself and finally the paper attempts to make assumptions and draw conclusions with respect to the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the data.
Journal: Studies in Linguistics, Culture, and FLT
- Issue Year: 1/2013
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 29-42
- Page Count: 14
- Language: English
