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Peer reviewedHolmes, Janet – Language in Society, 1990
Examines the syntactic, semantic, and sociolinguistic features of a corpus of 183 apologies in New Zealand English, within the context of an interaction model with 2 intersecting dimensions, affective and referential meaning, attempting to relate the relative "weightiness" of the offense to features of the apology. (53 references)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Interpersonal Competence, Language Patterns
