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Jee-Won Hahn. 2012. Perception of (im)politeness in Korean apology. The purpose of the study was to identify factors that affect the perception of politeness in the act of apologizing. A perception task has been employed for Korean apologies. The potential apologies are presented to native speakers of Korean in order to see how such utterances are perceived by native speakers. Responses to apology events are analyzed in two ways: quantitatively and qualitatively. The choice of apologies over non-apologies is calculated for their perception of politeness. This study analyzed three aspects: apology strategies, use of performatives, and situational variables. The stimuli used for the perception task were selected based on data from a previous study. A total of ten items were used in order to elicit responses from Korean native speakers. The degree of politeness was calculated based on how the given apology item had been interpreted. If the items were perceived to be sincere and appropriate for the context, participants were likely to choose apologies over non-apologies and vice versa. Such choices are presented in percentages for politeness. This study demonstrates the role of linguistic strategies and performatives in apologies. The choice of linguistic strategies is found to affect the degree of politeness that people perceive. Among others, different strategies are classified as other-oriented politeness. Furthermore, the degree of politeness also varies according to the presence of performatives. Additional findings come from metalinguistic views on apologetic utterances. .Native interpretations of apologetic utterances provide comments that reflect views on situational variation.
