A Corpus Study of the Form and Function of Sorry in Spoken British English  

作　　者：张洁琳 ZHANG Jie-lin(Bejjing Language and Culure Universilty,Beijing 100083,China)

机构地区：[1]北京语言大学

出　　处：《海外英语》2021年第22期115-116,共2页Overseas English

摘　　要：Sorry is known to be an explicit,routine formulaic expression,being associated with apologizing,one of the speech actsraised by Austin(1962).However,in our daily life sorry can be also used as a pragmatic marker for phatic functions,i.e.to‘estab-lish solidarity and intimacy with a conversational partner’(Archer,Aijmer and Wichmann,2012:45),not necessarily carrying thepropositional meaning of apology or regret.Based on politeness theory,this paper aims to prove that expressions of sorry containvarious interpretations besides real apologies and explore the underlying functions of different collocation patterns of sorry in spo-ken British English.To achieve this goal,the paper will investigate the uses of the adjective sorry in natural conversation by analyz-ing the data in the Diachronic Corpus of Spoken English(DCPSE).

关 键 词：Politeness Theory LINGUISTICS Corpus Study 

分 类 号：H0[语言文字—语言学]