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Publication details [#2945]
Edmondson, Willis J. 1981. On saying you're sorry. In Coulmas, Florian, ed. Conversational routine: Explorations in standardized communication situations and prepatterned speech. Mouton. pp. 273–288.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Annotation
A partial discourse-analytic framework is sketched and in this framework apologies are described as a type of illocutionary act.