چکیده (انگلیسی):

The goal of the paper is to show how external situations (cultural, institutional,
social) of the suicide note genre and its component speech acts (especially: Last Will
Instructions, Saying ‘I love you’ and Thanking) impact the choice of the strategies of
apologizing. The results of the research conducted using Polish Corpus of Suicide
Notes were compared to the description of apologizing as found in the Polish part
of project Cross-Cultural Speech Act Realization Patterns. Natural communicative
situation reflected in the analyzed texts reveal a complex structure of the apologizing
speech act with its overlapping strategies. The most noticeabledifferences between
everyday apologizing and apologizing in the suicide note emerge in the strategy of
Taking of Responsibility whose form depends not only on the type of the offense
but also on the recipients. In suicide notes,the author knows the rules of apologizing
but he adjusts them to his situation and he subordinatesthe text to his goals. The
most important person in the sender-recipient relationship appears to be the author
himself and the injured party remains in the shadow. In the sender’s mind, both the
acceptance of the apologyand the direct contact arenot necessary.