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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Apologizing."”.
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Apologizing and complaining in Ciluba, French, and English : speech act performance by trilingual speakers in Zaire
… It was found that for the speech acts of apologizing, complaining, and complimenting, Ciluba socio-cultural norms are different from those of English and French, which are similar to each other. In contrast to the socio-cultural norms of French and English, in Ciluba, social distance and …
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Erlesene Stimmen : semantische und funktionale Analyse von Stimmdarstellungen in englischen fiktionalen Texten
… machtstrukturierende Stimmangaben (z.B. happy, apologizing, condescending) eingeschlossen sind, die dem Leser Aufschluß über das Innenleben und die Beziehungsstrukturen von fiktionalen Charakteren geben. Da die Schwierigkeit der Stimmklangwiedergabe für Autoren geradezu eine willkommene …
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It’s Personal and Not Just Business: The Effects of Admitting Transgressions on the Perception of Transgressors
… Overall, these studies provide evidence that apologizing and expressing ownership for a transgression is the best method to respond with to facilitate relationship repair within multiple situations.
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Apology behavior: A comparison between native speakers of American English and Chinese English learners
… kind of competence in such communicative acts as apologizing by asking the learners to react in given situations by using appropriate strategies. However, studies on the apology behavior have been conducted so far for the most part with the native speakers of western languages and cultures. No …
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NEGOTIATING FACE AND CONFLICT IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS: A CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON OF UGANDA AND ETHIOPIA
… as being related to (1) third party help, (2) apologizing and forgiving, and (3) avoiding. Overall, this study was important because it extended FNT in a noteworthy direction by including the role of family communication patterns, communalism, and relational outcomes in the face negotiation and …
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The rhetorical dimension of an apology for slavery.
This paper will discuss the theoretical and practical applications of an apology for American slavery. It will focus upon former Representative Tony Hall's 1997 and 2000 request for a congressional apology for slavery. The rhetorical dimensions of the sociopolitical apology in regard to American …
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Spanish pragmatic markers' usage patterns in second language and heritage speakers
… (e.g., the performance of speech acts such as apologizing to a friend). A total of 539 oral samples (77 participants x 7 prompts) were transcribed and coded for pragmatic markers. Results from statistical analyses (one-way between-subjects ANOVA and Tukey HSD post-hoc analyses conducted in R) …