This paper extends the concept of local grammar to speech act studies, focusing specifically on apologising in English. It aims primarily to demonstrate the usefulness of a local grammar approach to account for speech acts and ultimately to contribute to the on-going development of corpus pragmatics. Apology expressions in a corpus of scripted TV conversations are first automatically extracted and then manually examined in order to make sure that all remaining instances have the illocutionary force of apologising and thus qualify for further analysis. The subsequent local grammar analyses facilitate the establishment of a local grammar of apology, comprising 14 local grammar patterns. The analyses show that it is promising to develop a set of local grammars to account more adequately for speech acts in general. The relationship between local grammars, functional grammars, and general grammars is further discussed, which suggests that local grammars can be an alternative approach to functional-pragmatic studies of language and discourse. Directions for future research are outlined; and implications and applications are briefly discussed.

中文翻译：

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“我真的很抱歉我说了什么”

本文将局部语法的概念扩展到言语行为研究，特别侧重于英语道歉。它的主要目的是证明本地语法方法对言语行为的解释作用，并最终有助于语料库语用学的不断发展。首先会自动提取脚本电视对话语料库中的道歉表达，然后手动进行检查，以确保所有剩余实例具有道歉的言语表达能力，从而有资格进行进一步分析。随后的局部语法分析有助于建立包括14种局部语法模式的道歉局部语法。分析表明，有望开发出一套局部语法以更充分地说明一般的言语行为。进一步讨论了局部语法，功能语法和一般语法之间的关系，这表明局部语法可以作为语言和话语的功能语用研究的替代方法。概述了未来研究的方向；并简要讨论了含义和应用。