Sample Letter of Apology

2005

Includes An Important Visit, The Pope’s Letter to the Bees, A Sudden Death Delayed, The Status Report, In our small room, imperceptibly, Not in Noah’s Flood and an excerpt from Paradise Lost Annotated

Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, 2007

2013

Example 1 REFLECTION ESSAY As I sit down to reflect on my time in the English major at Berry, I'm roughly three months removed from my last English class. At the moment, I'm in the middle of a semester-long student teaching experience at Armuchee High School, finishing out my Secondary Education minor and preparing for the "real world" of teaching that awaits me after May 10 th. At this point, I've got some well-needed temporal, as well as practical, distance between myself and the English classes that were a staple of my time at Berry. Truth be told, I miss them. On a more relevant note, I'm thankful for them. In combination with my own extensive extracurricular studies of literature-e.g. my annual summer reading and research projects with books like Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow, and Infinite Jest-my English studies at Berry have not only given me knowledge that I am using right now in the high school classroom but also made me an overall better, more critical reader and writer. The discussions I've had (or rather, given my introverted nature, mostly observed) in class have shown me how to engage with others in good intellectual discussion and how a single text can be approached and analyzed from a variety of angles. The connections I've made with professors, both in and out of the classroom, have shown me much the same while giving me intellectual and personal role models to look up to. In short, my experience as an English major at Berry has been an enriching one, one that has prepared me both professionally and personally for the years after graduation. Coming to Berry in the fall of 2010, I knew from the start that I was going to be an English major and Secondary Education minor. It wasn't until the spring of 2012, though, that I

The speech act of apologizing as politeness strategies has become important topic in pragmatics. Apologizing based on Searle (1969) is classified as an expressive speech act because it expresses speaker's physiological attitude. Brown and Levinson (1992:187) state that expressing apology is negative politeness strategy. According to Austin (1962) apology is performative utterances. Olstain and Cohen (1986) propose five strategies in expressing apologies, they are a direct expression of apologies (IFID), an acknowledgement of responsibility, an explanation, an offer repair, and a promise of forbearance. This paper tries to describe explicit apologies that occurred in conversation among the characters in English novels written by Charles Dickens. The explicit apology or IFID uses performative verbs " apologize, be sorry, forgive me, pardon, and excuse " to express a regret. This research tries to give more explanation about structure of explicit apologies in English. The data are taken from four novels written by Charles Dickens entitled Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, and David Copperfield. This study uses qualitative method; the descriptive interpretative technique is used for analyzing data. According to Cresswell (1994: 2) qualitative is a process of understanding social or human problems in complex building, holistic picture, formed in verbal languages.

Journal of Pragmatics

Goffman (1971) proposed that apologies are, or at least should be, proportional to the offenses they are designed to remediate. In a previous quantitative study (Heritage & Raymond 2016), we found mixed support for such a principle of proportionality. The present article aims to unpack some of the difficulties encountered in that largely positivistic analysis, by adopting a constitutive approach to the design, deployment, and negotiation of apologies in sequences of interaction. We begin by examining cases of self-correction, in which participants can be seen to be orienting to the (in)appositeness of apology formulations to deal with particular offenses. We then offer an in-depth comparison of two cases involving what is ostensibly the ‘same’ virtual offense, but in which the stance of the apologizer in each is quite different. After discussing three possible approaches to the divergence between these two cases, we conclude by arguing that the principle of proportionality is best conceived of as a normative structure to which participants orient even in the context of departing from it, thereby providing for its maintenance. Data come from everyday conversation amongst American and British speakers of English.

Book of Grammar and Writing , 2019

is the letter. Letters should have a format that goes with the latest conventions. Formal Letters include-(a) Official letters (for making enquiries, registering complaints, asking and giving information, placing orders and sending replies) (b) Letters to the editor (giving suggestions on an issue) (c) Application for a job. LETTER TO THE EDITOR These letters (i) Give suggestions on a public interest issue (ii) Give suggestion on an issue already raised in an article /write-up /published letter. Important points  Begin with reference to a recent issue/ event  Give details of topic bringing out cause and effect relationship  Offer suggestions/ solutions  Write the letter in 4-5 paragraphs  Do not ask the editor to solve the problem as he can only voice your and ideas.

Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Uhingu Aastaraamat, 2007