THE CONCESSIVE PERSPECTIVE IN APOLOGY SPEECH ACTS IN AMERICAN-ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN SPOKEN DISCOURSE

Abstract

The paper deals with the syntactic and lexical-semantic examination of the markers of concession extracted from two TV debate formats in American-English and Bulgarian, which were identified and analysed within the frames of the complex sentence structure. A further point of interest is the investigation of the concessive relations recognized within the scope of expressive speech acts, apologies in particular, as we aim to discuss to what extent the concessive perspective may affect their pragmatic performance. In this respect, the relevance of the paper arises from the rapid development of integrated cross-cultural studies in the sphere of communicative acts and the significance of new interpretations of pragmatic matters in spoken discourse.