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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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