Upgrading and Downgrading Accounts as Indirect Apology Strategies

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10.2991/hssnpp-19.2019.55How to use a DOI?

Keywords

expressive, speech act, speech formula, language corpus, face-threatening strategy, face-saving strategy, speaker, hearer

Abstract

The article marks such indirect apology strategies as Upgrading Accounts; Downgrading Accounts; An Offer of Repair; A Promise of Forbearance; swearing; interjections Oops!; oh no!Such strategies as Upgrading (face-threatening for a speaker) and Downgrading (face-saving for a speaker) accounts are analyzed in detail. Using a language corpus, the realizations of the following speech acts are studied: admission of guilt, self-criticism, confession about guilt consciousness (Upgrading Accounts); explanation (Downgrading Accounts). In addition to indirect apology strategies used separately, various combinations of these strategies are identified. Also, hearer's reaction to indirect apology strategies is studied, which can be: the negation of speaker's guilt; the acceptance of the apology; the rejection to accept an apology; hearer's apology (in response to speaker's apology).

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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