Direct Apology Strategies and Their Lexicogrammatical Realizations in English Conversations

One of the most prevalent speech acts across languages and cultures is apologizing. It plays an important role in conversations which helps maintain social relationships. Many researchers this field have proposed several apology strategies; however, article aims to examine direct strategies lexicogrammatical realizations utterances, including apologies English conversations. This a descriptive qualitative study that gathered data from extracted romance family film scripts. was also supported with quantitative information order seek answers three research questions. The findings show expression regret prominent strategy, characters took advantage English-language In terms lexico-grammar, utterances occurrence sorry its other appeared frequently.