Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Discursive-Pragmatic and Translation Features of the Semantic Situation of Apology in Linguocultures

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2015 8 (12)
Authors
Dubovik, Anastasiya S.
Contact information
Dubovik, Anastasiya S.:Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University named after V.P. Astafiev 89 A. Lebedeva Str., Krasnoyarsk, 660049, Russia; E-mail:
Keywords
the speech act of apology; the semantic situation of apology; the communicative situation of apology; linguocultures; etiquette rules; translation problems
Abstract

Formulas of apology are widely used in communication systems in many socio-cultural communities as a means of realizing the crucial social function that ensures the maintenance of harmony of interpersonal relationships between the participants of a communicative act. However, so far a number of problems associated with the peculiarities of the functioning of the formulas of apology in speech have not been studied yet, including the problem of the use of language units with the semantics of apology for the realization of other speech acts and formulas, as well as the problem of translation of the formulas used in the semantic situation of apology in general and translation of the formulas used in the British culture from English to Russian in particular. A traditional linguistic analysis, aimed at studying isolated linguistic forms, as a rule, does not take into account its closest context environment, conditions of use, as well as culturally-based interactive parameters, and as a result, can not determine the actual communicative value of this formula in natural interaction. In this paper, the author describes the functioning of the semantic situation of apology from the standpoint of discursive-pragmatic analysis, taking into account the extra-linguistic parameters of the situation of communication

Pages
2833-2841
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/19970

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