Open AccessPUBLIC APOLOGY: A PRAGMALINGUISTIC ANALYSIS
Author(s) -
Мария Львовна Васильева
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik udmurtskogo universiteta. istoriâ i filologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2454
pISSN - 2412-9534
DOI - 10.35634/2412-9534-2020-30-3-467-475
Subject(s) - rhetorical question , etiquette , character (mathematics) , linguistics , value (mathematics) , sociology , presidential system , political science , law , philosophy , politics , computer science , geometry , mathematics , machine learning
The article concerns the problem of rationalizing the speech genre of apology. The following features of the latter are discussed: etiquette; institutional character; rhetorical character; public nature; cultural specificity. The value parameter serves as a ground for establishing the features of public apology in American top-management (presidential) discourse. Description is given to the pragmalinguistic features of B.J. Clinton’s public apology televised nationwide on 17.08.1998, specifically, to its super-structure and to its strategic-tactical content. The latter is represented by two macro-strategies and by five strategies of non-uniform nature.