الفهرس 
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Abstract
This study attempts to provide a socioprgmatic analysis of the
interethnic communication between the British and the Egyptians in Ahdaf
Soueif’s novel The Map of Love, between the British and the Bangladeshis in
Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth, and between the British and the Indians in
Hanif Kureishi’s novel The Buddha of Suburbia. The speech act of apology is
the object of the present study. This study illustrates whether the speech act of
apology is able to maintain the harmony between the British and the Egyptians
in The Map of Love, between the British and the Bangladeshis in White Teeth
or between the British and the Indians in The Buddha of Suburbia and restore
the interaction balance with the offended. Maintaining the harmony between
the characters is significant since it is required to maintain the relationship
between the offender and the offended.
The data collected were analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively.
The qualitative analysis is carried out in terms of what kinds of strategies
speakers use most often when apologizing. The quantitative analysis allows for
a more in-depth look at the different strategies that speakers use in order to
apologize in different situations. Therefore, an attempt to find the frequency of
different types of apologies in the three novels is made.
The general results of this study show that the British and the Egyptians
in The Map of Love, the British and the Bangladeshis in White Teeth, and the
British and the Indians in The Buddha of Suburbia use a big number of
strategies to apologize. However, there is a preference of a strategy over
another. Data analysis has shown that the choice of apology strategies depends
on the cultural background of both the speaker and the hearer.