La disculpa en chinoestado de la cuestión y análisis de conversaciones recreadas

Resumen

The aim of this work is to conduct a research about the apology in Chinese. In order to do this, an account of the existing bibliography on the subject and the analysis of a small oral conversational corpus have been done. The results show the preference for a specific type of strategy, the expression of direct and explicit apology (IFID). In spite of that, this strategy is not usually done in isolation. The IFID is usually used in conjunction with an explanation of the cause which brought the offence or with an expression of the speaker’s responsibility for the offence. Finally, both, literature about this topic and the analysis of the corpus, show clear evidence that social power and social distance are really related to the strategy chosen by the speaker to perform the apology.