A Cross-Cultural Approach to Speech-Act-Sets: The Case of Apologies

• Authors: Silvie Válková
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to contribute to the validity of recent research into speech act theory by advocating the idea that with some of the traditional speech acts, their overt language manifestations that emerge from corpus data remind us of ritualised scenarios of speech-act-sets rather than single acts, with configurations of core and peripheral units reflecting the socio-cultural norms of the expectations and culture-bound values of a given language community. One of the prototypical manifestations of speech-act-sets, apologies, will be discussed to demonstrate a procedure which can be used to identify, analyse, describe and cross-culturally compare the validity of speech-act-set theory and provide evidence of its relevance for studying the English-Czech interface in this particular domain of human interaction.

Keywords

EN

Cross-cultural approach; speech-act-set; apology; overt language manifestation; functional equivalents

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Topics in Linguistics
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1

Dates

online

2014-07-08

Contributors

author

Silvie Válková

• Department of English, Faculty of Education, Palacký University, Žižkovo nám. 5, 771 40 Olomouc, Czech Republic, Phone: [phone]

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/topling-2014-0001