Publications
Publication details [#46095]
Kasanga, Luanga A. and Joy-Christine Lwanga-Lumu. 2007. Cross-cultural linguistic realization of politeness: A study of apologies in English and Setswana. Journal of Politeness Research 3 (1).
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
Drawing on qantitative data, elicited by discourse completion tasks, along the lines of the Cross Cultural Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP) project's framework, this contrastive study compares apologies in native and “nativized” English varieties and the South African Setswana variety.