| Apology is an expression of guilt or regret the function of which is to restore and maintain harmony of social relations (Ogierman, 2009). Various studies on apology haven been conducted by Deutschmann (2003); Wouk (2006); Kadar (2007), Andrefiza (2010); Ancarno (2011) which dealt with multiple apology expressions, apology and gender, historical apology, and apology in press representations. Ferguson (2007) studied apology and forgiveness in printed media in Ireland. Those studies leave the online English newspapers open, and this present one is interested in investigating apology strategies and patterns used in written discourse in Indonesian on line English newspapers. The data of this study will be taken from three reliable Indonesian online English newspapers, namely The Jakarta Post, Jakarta Globe, and Tempo.co English. The collected data will be analyzed using the framework of apology strategies and patterns suggested by Ogiermann (2009) and Deutschmann (2003). |