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Harris, Sandra, Karen Grainger and Louise Mullany. 2006. The pragmatics of political apologies. Discourse & Society 17 (6) : 715–737.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper explores the pragmatics of political apologies as a generic discourse type by identifying their salient features. It then tries to illustrate the different political apology types drawing on data regarding recent political events in the UK, in particular the involvement in the Iraq War.