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30 07 20 Speech Acts
30 07 20 Speech Acts
Face threating.
Politeness.
The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people. George shaws.
O público é deus.
Thus to lose face is to have type of damage threat imposed upon our self image.
Apologies.
Apologies, speech events, combination of lot of speech acts. Explaining what happening, sound
like this, lot of acts envolve single event, which is the apologie.
Public figures, they generally suffer face loss, guilty recognition, offense explanation and large
number of addresses involved.
Cross cultural pragmatics. General parttern and they differ across cultures.
Conscious awareness.
How we see politeness. Habit, linguistic habit work otused of level of conscious awareness.
For the current research apologies,by public figures, were manually collected between July
2018 and 2019 april, follwoby by a qualitative anaylissi.
Apologies > performative, nom perfomative.
My mistake…
Events and not act, there is other act help understand to the apologies.
They are all regretful, they don’t use the word apologies, sorry, my bad, protypical, most
frequent word, use other words to apologies, is still an apology.
Didn’t know. I wasn’t aware. Acknoledge the mistake. Claiming ignorance, have changed.
Positive face.
Performative.
His self depreciating. Intensifiying how wrong he was to sound honest and regretful.
Perfomative, I am sorry. Acknoleging they are right to claim she was offensive.
Post sorry, not enough context. I am sorry for that post, sorry for that mistake, need for
context.