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Publication details [#12119]

Murata, Kumiko. 1998. Has he apologized or not?: A cross-cultural misunderstanding between the UK and Japan on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of VJ Day in Britain. Pragmatics 8 (4) : 501–513.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
apologizing | context | interpretation | letter | meaning | newspaper report | speech act
Place, Publisher
International Pragmatics Association
ISBN
1018-2101
Journal DOI
10.1075/prag

Annotation

An illustration of the importance of context in utterance interpretation and of the influence sociopolitical and historical backgrounds can have on the interpretation of linguistic meaning.