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Papal Apologies for Residential Schools and the Stories they Tell

open access: yesJournal of Moral Theology, 2023
This article reflects on the apologies by Pope Francis for Indian Residential Schools in Canada in terms of the stories they tell about past wrongdoing and about the role of the apologies in repair and healing.
Jeremy M. Bergen
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Investigating the performance of emailed apologies by Australian learners of Italian

open access: yesEuroAmerican Journal of Applied Linguistics and Languages, 2022
This paper explores the strategies chosen by Australian learners of Italian when performing emailed apologies in Italian. Through a modified discourse completion task, 42 participants produced a total of 317 emails.
Talia Walker
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Apologies as signals for change? Implicit theories of personality and reactions to apologies during the #MeToo movement.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
During a national reckoning against sexual violence, the public read or heard dozens of apologies offered by prominent public figures in response to allegations of sexual misconduct. This study examined people's reactions to these apologies, with a focus
Karina Schumann
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Apologies in business communication

open access: yesEesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu Aastaraamat, 2007
The aim of the present paper is to examine the routine of apologizing in spoken business communication. Being face-threatening acts, apologies are of special importance in communication.
Jūratė Ruzaitė, Laura Čubajevaitė
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How do I pardon thee?: The effects of relationship type, account type, and gender on offence-specific forgiveness

open access: yesCogent Psychology, 2023
We employed a Bayesian analysis to compare offence-specific forgiveness in supportive versus ambivalent relationships. We also investigated offender accounts to assess their effect on forgiveness.
Robert D. Ridge   +3 more
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DEUS VULT? Crusade Apologists, Historians and “Abortive Rituals” in the 1999 Reconciliation Walk to Jerusalem

open access: yesPráticas da História, 2019
The nine-hundredth anniversary of the First Crusade (1095-99) saw hundreds of evangelical Western Christians trace the route of the medieval expedition apologising to local communities for the violence of the crusades. The Reconciliation Walk embodied an
Mike Horswell
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The Implementation of Open Disclosure in Asian Culture in Singapore: A systematic literature review

open access: yesAsia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 2019
Objective: Open Disclosure is the process of open and honest discussion between a clinician and the patient and family when an adverse clinical event occurs while the patient is in care or treatment.
Jade Esswood, Richard Olley
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Linguistic politeness of Pakistani English and British English speakers: Culture and gender perspectives

open access: yesCogent Arts & Humanities, 2021
This study examines sociocultural, pragmatic, and gender differences between native speakers of British English (BritE) and Pakistani English speakers (PakE) in expressing apology responses (ARs).
Tahir Saleem   +2 more
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Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Failure From the Perspective of Politeness

open access: yesمجلة كلية الآداب, 2018
The present paper attempts to outline the importance of familiarity of the politeness phenomenon amongst the fifth and seventh semester students of English Department, Misurata University and elaborate its influence on the socio-cultural attitudes and ...
Ibtisam H. Mami, Radia A. Attaweel
doaj   +1 more source

Biophysical approaches for studying viral entry

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Viruses infect all living organisms and have been responsible for major epidemics and pandemics. Their ongoing evolutionary battle with host defenses creates a constant need for improved tools to study viral behavior. Advancing methods to probe viral attachment, fusion, and genome release deepen our understanding of how infections begin and support the
Inbar Yosibash, Raya Sorkin
wiley   +1 more source

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