Publications

Publication details [#26806]

Kotani, Mariko. 2002. Expressing gratitude and indebtedness: Japanese speakers' use of "I'm sorry" in English conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction 35 (1) : 39–72.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | conversational analysis | language and culture

Language as a subject

English, American | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Lawrence Erlbaum

ISBN

0835-1813

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This study examines an instance of a type of Japanese interlocutors' use of the expression "I'm sorry" in a spontaneously occurring English conversation and compares Japanese speakers' cultural knowledge with native English speakers' cultural assumptions and possible interpretations of the phrase.