A Contrastive Study of English and Chinese Apology Strategies from the Perspective of Cognitive Hierarchy
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Previous studies on apology strategies have focused on pragmatics, and this study aims to classify apology strategies from a cognitive perspective. In addition, a corpus-based study was conducted to compare the apology strategies used in English and Chinese to explore the cognitive level differences between English and Chinese. As a result, there are both central and peripheral members in English and Chinese apology strategies, and the cognitive levels of the strategies are different, in which the direct speech act apology is more central.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/ahe.v6i24.5403
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