.عذر خواهی در گفتمان آکان

With knowledge of the potentially deadly repercussions of the spoken word in some communicative encounters, the Akan interlocutor employs various mitigating strategies that pay attention to the face needs of an addressee either by softening the locution of a possible facethreatening act inherent in a speaker's stretch of utterance, or by attempting to remedy an offense committed by the speaker or by someone whose actions for which the speaker accepts responsibility. An apology or a remedy (Goffman, 1971: 140) — a speech act whose primary purpose is redressive action — is one such speech strategy which pays attention to the face needs of interlocutors. It is basically aimed at maintaining or enhancing their face or restoring decorum (Goffman, 1967). Among the Akan, apology expressions may be complex — involving a combination of both explicitness and implicitness — or compound, involving a combination of two or more implicit strategies.