THE APOLOGY STRATEGIES USED BY THE WORKERS  TO THE OLD AND YOUNG BOSSES

Lili Chen; Josefa J. Mardijono

doi:10.9744/katakita.1.1.239-247

THE APOLOGY STRATEGIES USED BY THE WORKERS TO THE OLD AND YOUNG BOSSES

Lili Chen^(1*), Josefa J. Mardijono⁽²⁾,

(1)
(2)
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract

This study is aimed to reveal the type of apology strategies used by the workers to the old and young bosses. There were five workers and two bosses, old and young bosses, taken for the subjects. Finally, the research came up with the result that the way of the workers apologizing might influenced by the age of the bosses as interlocutor which made the workers produce apology utterances in different ways of apology to the old and young bosses.