Abstract
The current research aims at analyzing the speech act of apology
articulated by Pakistan English speakers in the theoretical
framework of politeness given by Brown and Levinson (1987).
Politeness theory given by Brown & Levinson highlights four
strategies of politeness a speaker uses while dealing with the
listener which are bald on-record, positive politeness, negative
politeness and off- record. Which strategy is to be employed in
which scenario depends upon relationship between speaker and
listener.The research design for the current research is
quantitative and the research instrument used for the current
research is multiple choice discourse completion task
comprising 15 situations. The data was collected from a sample
of 193 respondents and analyzed by using SPSS. Findings reveal
that most of the respondents chose positive politeness strategy to
apologize from the friends with different gender. Bald off record
strategy was also used widely by respondents but comparatively
less than positive politeness. Positive politeness is reported to be
used by maximum respondents when dealing with strangers
whether they belong to same gender or opposite one. The
findings implicate the patterns of politeness used by Pakistani
English language learners and level of formality and gender has
been found to have potential impact on choosing the politeness
strategies.
Furrakh Abbas, Kainat Anjum, Syed Bilal Pasha. (2019) Speech Act of Apology by Pakistani English Speakers through the Theory of Politeness, The Dialogue, Volume 14, Issue 2.
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