A Pragmatic Study of Apology Strategies in Urdu: A Case of Kashmiri Urdu
Keywords:
politeness, speech acts, apologies, ; apology semantic formulae, ; language and culture, socio- culture and socio - pragmatics, Urdu1Abstract
The present study attempts to investigate basic apology semantic formulae used by
Kashmiri speakers in Urdu language. It also elaborates preferences of the participants of
study regarding selection of different strategies. The informants are 250 university
students, doing MA in Urdu language. A modified version of Discourse Completion Test
(DCT) proposed by Blum-Kulka and Olshtain (1984) is used for data collection. The
current version of DCT consists of 15 situations and data collected is analysed by using
taxonomy proposed by Blum Kulka et al., (1989). While, the data collected through
observations and interviews is used either to verify or contradict DCT data. The results
of the study not only emphasise claimed universality of apology expressions but also
reinforces culture-specific aspect of language use by exploring some more expressions
being used for apologizing in Urdu language by the population under study.Significance
of the study lies inits contribution for promoting global understanding regarding speech
act of apology as is perceived and executed in Kashmir.
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