Litvinova V.A. MOTIVATION OF APOLOGY IN THE BRITISH COMMUNICATIVE CULTURE
Litvinova Valentina Aleksandrovna
Postgraduate Student, Department of English Philology, Volgograd State University ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. )
Abstract: the article presents the analysis of background reasons of сommunicative act apology in the British communicative culture. Revealing variation of motives, the author proposes a classification of apology act types based on functional and pragmatic characteristics accounting ethno-socio-cultural context in the British culture.
Key words: politeness, apology, communicative act, etiquette, presupposition, motivation.
MOTIVATION OF APOLOGY IN THE BRITISH COMMUNICATIVE CULTURE by Litvinova V.A. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.