Resumen de You have full text access to this content Apology Speech Act Realization in the Sarawani Balochi Dialect

Seddigheh Zeynali Dastuyi, Abbas Ali Ahangar

• This study aims at extracting and categorizing apology strategies in the Sarawani Balochi dialect. It also investigates the effect of the status and gender of addressees on the type and number of apology strategies employed by Sarawani Baloch female university students (SBFUS) based on a revised version of the Cross Cultural Speech Act Realization Project (CCSARP) proposed by Blum-Kulka, House and Kasper (1989). The results show that while they used most of the apology strategies mentioned in CCSARP, which speaks to the universality of employing apology strategies, the participants also used new strategies reflecting the influence of their religious and cultural values. The results also show that although the status of the addressees significantly influenced the type and number of apology strategies used by the SBFUS in each type of apology situation, gender did not seem to have any such effect. Regarding the type and number of apology strategies, the most frequently used apology strategies were “illocutionary force indicating devices” and the “combination of 2” strategies.