speech act of apology in an American soap opera and the German equivalent

Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,0, University of Erfurt (Philosophische Fakultat), course: Sprachstruktur und Sprachgebrauch II, language: English, abstract: Across all languages there are more or less conventionalized linguistic means to be found, e.g. to form a question, make a request, express gratitude or utter an ...