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Apology strategies in Persian

Journal of Pragmatics, 2010
The present study is a research into the frequency, combination, and sequential position of apology strategies in Persian. The investigation is based on a corpus of 500 naturally-occurring apology exchanges, collected through an ethnographic method of observation.
Mohammad Shariati, Fariba Chamani
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Chinese EFL learners’ apology strategies

Applied Pragmatics, 2022
AbstractThis paper presents a multimodal analysis of apologies performed by Chinese EFL learners at two proficiency levels by considering their use of both verbal and nonverbal (i.e., gestures and gaze) strategies. The results showed that both groups used IFID (illocutionary force indicating device, which, in this study, refers to explicit apology ...
Xiaoyu Pei, Lianrui Yang, Ying Chen, Brent Wolter   +3 more
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Argumentative strategies to evade state apologies: The Turkish example

Discourse Studies, 2023
Countries are often reluctant to publicly recognize and express regret for past wrongdoings despite urgent pressures or calls to do so, and in the past decades there have been numerous examples of states that have issued statements that evade an admission of wrongdoing or apology.
Demir, Yeliz, Schaafsma, Juliette
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Apology strategies in English and Vietnamese

IJOHMN (International Journal online of Humanities), 2017
The paper examined the differences in apology strategies between native speakers of English and advanced Vietnamese ESL learners as well as the factors that might result in those differences through discourse completion tests (DCTs). The data were coded in terms of five apology strategies, and were analyzed according to four situational categories in ...
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Apology strategies of Jordanian EFL university students

Journal of Pragmatics, 2006
This study is an investigation of Jordanian EFL university students’ apologies, using a 10-item questionnaire based on Sugimoto's (1997). The findings revealed that male and female respondents used the primary strategies of statement of remorse, accounts, compensation, promise not to repeat offense, and reparation.
Ruba Fahmi Bataineh, Rula Fahmi Bataineh
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Apology Strategies to Reduce Electric Vehicle User Frustration

AHFE International, 2022
The probability of abnormal charging termination due to charging pile faults is high. Drivers often experience frustration due to charging failure, which affects their long-term willingness to drive EVs. Existing studies have demonstrated apology strategy as a potential method to reduce frustration.
Yuhan Li, Danhua Zhao
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Apology strategies in natives/non-natives

Journal of Pragmatics, 1987
Abstract Sociolinguistic competence has been shown to be an important component of communicative competence. However, research findings (e.g. Rintell (1981) , Blum-Kulka (1982) , Thomas (1982) , Eisenstein and Bodman (1984)) show that this area of competence is indeed problematic for learners of a foreign language; they may be proficient in e.g.
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Traditional Fijian Apology as a Political Strategy

Oceania, 2005
ABSTRACTThis paper is a reflection upon tradition in Fiji, taking up the question of a controversial ceremony of apology during the 2000 Fijian crisis. A subject of dispute, as much for the social actors as for anthropologists, the notion of tradition that I piece together appears as just such an object of negotiation — between interlocutors but ...
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Cross cultural pragmatics: Apology strategies in Sudanese Arabic

Journal of Pragmatics, 2008
In the last two decades, many studies have been conducted to investigate speech act performance in general, and apology speech act in particular. This genus of research has focused on western languages. However, more recently a number of studies have been carried out in eastern languages, with only a few in Arabic language varieties.
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