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This chapter offers a typology of public apologies and argues that these new forms that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century can tell us something about the nature of “publicity” in such public moral acts. After categorizing and giving examples of six forms of such public apologies—those offered by celebrities, those offered by ...
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This chapter offers a typology of public apologies and argues that these new forms that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century can tell us something about the nature of “publicity” in such public moral acts. After categorizing and giving examples of six forms of such public apologies—those offered by celebrities, those offered by ...
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An Apology for Public Apologies?
2014It is a commonplace of transitional justice scholarship that in post-conflict societies, public apologies by former wrongdoers are practices that promote respect for victims.2 An apology, even in the simplest of senses, involves recognition that the victim was not treated appropriately, and that at the very least she deserves redress in the form of an ...
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Public apologies and the psychodynamics of orality
Explorations in Media Ecology, 2021Though many scholars note the importance of the spoken apology, the overwhelming majority of research from the field of communication does not discuss apologies in terms of orality itself. Drawing on Walter Ong’s psychodynamics of orality, the author argues that we need to hear an apology as it is an instance of residual orality which does not make ...
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Impermanent Apologies: on the Dynamics of Timing and Public Knowledge in Political Apology
Human Rights Review, 2018Political apologies are commonly imagined as gestures of finality and closure: capstone moments that summate public knowledge. One manifestation of these assumptions is the position that apologies should be timed to come only after appropriate investigation into the wrongdoing has been completed.
Matt James, Jordan Stanger-Ross
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An Apology for Public Apologies?: Transitional Justice and Respect in Germany
German Studies Review, 2013Public apologies of former perpetrators for their wrongdoing are commonly taken to be an expression of respect for victims. Public apologies are said to involve recognition that the victim deserves redress in the form of an acknowledgment of the wrong done to him or her.
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Art and Artifice in Public Apologies
Journal of Business Ethics, 2011The purpose of this article is threefold: to examine the elements of an artful apology; to sequence them in a comprehensive configuration; and to use the taxonomy for assessing the effect of public apologies. The model identifies seven sequential components of an apology: revelation, recognition, responsiveness, responsibility, remorse, restitution ...
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Public apologies in Angola, but for whom?
justiceinfo.net, 2021It was a landmark speech. On May 26, Angola’s president apologized and asked forgiveness for mass executions that occurred in 1977. He also announced the returning of victims’ remains to their families and the issuance of death certificates. But what does this mean for Angola’s wider reconciliation process? Other key demands and large groups of victims
van Munster, Maarten, van Wijk, Joris
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The impoliteness metadiscourse about a public apology
Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)Abstract Public apologies seek moral reconciliation with the victim and the broader audience. When published online, they also become the focus of impoliteness metadiscourse, particularly on Twitter/X. Drawing on the pragmatic approaches to apologies as moral acts and on impoliteness theory, we ...
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Fiduciary Duties and the Ethics of Public Apology
Journal of Applied Philosophy, 2016AbstractThe practice of official apology has a fairly poor reputation. Dismissed as ‘crocodile tears’ or cheap grace, such apologies are often seen by the public as an easy alternative to more punitive or expensive ways of taking real responsibility. I focus on what I call the role‐playing criticism: the argument that someone who offers an apology in ...
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Public apologies and Press Evaluations
2015This paper is concerned with the representation of public apologies in the media and the way the apologies are framed and evaluated. Using a series of corpora from written and spoken sources, namely, the SiBol corpus comprising c.300,000,000 words of UK broadsheet newspaper texts, a corpus of White House briefings (c.1,500,000 words) a TV news corpus ...
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