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Publication details [#32863]

Holmes, Janet. 1989. Sex Differences and Apologies: One Aspect of Communicative Competence. Applied Linguistics 102 : 194–213.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | communicative competence | gender | politeness

Place, Publisher

Oxford University Press

ISBN

0142-6001

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

This paper explores sex differences in the distribution of apologies in a New Zealand corpus in order to demonstrate the complexity of the language learner's task in developing communicative competence.