PHONOTACTIC PERSPECTIVES AND ILLOCUTIONARY FORCE IN POLITICAL APOLOGY: A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF BULGARIAN AND NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH
PHONOTACTIC PERSPECTIVES AND ILLOCUTIONARY FORCE IN POLITICAL APOLOGY: A CONTRASTIVE STUDY OF BULGARIAN AND NORTH AMERICAN ENGLISH

Summary/Abstract: The article examines the influence of phonotactic organization and sonority configurations in modulating the illocutionary force of political apology, presenting a contrastive analysis of Bulgarian and North American English. It further delves into language-specific sound patterns that may contribute to the expression of sincerity, responsibility, and rhetorical mitigation. Through the classification and analysis of phonotactic architectures in terms of phonemic and phonetic organization, including consonant clusters and sonority sequencing in both languages, these effects are examined and analyzed. The study also illuminates language-internal idiosyncrasies, elucidating points of convergence and divergence within the framework of phonotactic structures that govern the articulation and perceptual salience of the sounds, consequently mediating the pragmatic performance of the political apology utterance.

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