HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ APOLOGY STRATEGIES IN ENGLISH AND THE BOSNIAN LANGUAGE
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ APOLOGY STRATEGIES IN
ENGLISH AND THE BOSNIAN LANGUAGE
Author(s): Kemal AvdagićSubject(s): Pragmatics, South Slavic Languages, Higher Education
Published by: Filozofski fakultet Univerziteta u Tuzli
Keywords: apology; gender; the speech act set; DCTs; Bosnian and English;
Summary/Abstract: This paper examines the way high school students in Bosnia and Herzegovina use and express the speech act of apology in both, Bosnian and the English language. The data is collected through Discourse Completion Tests (DCTs) from 80 high school students (43 Male and 37 Female). Gender, formal/ informal setting, and status variables were examined. The findings show that each variable to a certain extent affects the process of communication and that there are not strictly set rules which govern the communication process. The traditional role of gender is challenged and there is a need for further investigation in the field.
Journal: Bosanski jezik
- Issue Year: 2018
- Issue No: 15
- Page Range: 47-62
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
