A sociopragmatic analysis of the relationship between variation in social power and the practice and perception of the speech Act of apology in algerian academic contexts

Abstract

The main aim of this study is to investigate the realization of apology speech act under the influence of social power. The research method is speech act analysis in which researchers adopted two content analysis approaches, which were directed and conventional approaches including Discourse Completion Test (DCT). The present study took place at the University of Abderrahmane-Mira Bejaia. That is, the population of this study includes Master 1 English language students and teachers from the English language department....