Contrastive Analysis of Apologizing between Persian and English Speakers

This study is a contrastive analysis of apology strategies between Persian and English speakers. One of the basic sources of comparison is Afghari's article (2007). He gathered Persian apologetic utterances via a Discourse Completion Test (DCT) and the other source is Suszczynska's article (1999). Suszczynska (1999) gathered data of a corpus of English written responses to a Discourse Completion Test to highlight differences in the realization of apologetic responses in the choice and sequential arrangement of strategies and linguistic form. Both Persian and English languages show similar strategies for apologizing, according to the different situation and personality they use a special way for apologizing but in Persian language, people use swearing and hopes for forgiveness which are different from English language and also choosing one of these strategies appeared to be culture specific.