Publications

Publication details [#48539]

Fahmi Bataineh, Ruba and Rula Fahmi Bataineh. 2008. A cross-cultural comparison of apologies by native speakers of American English and Jordanian Arabic. Journal of Pragmatics 40 (4) : 792–821.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | crosscultural context | explicitness | native speaker

Language as a subject

Arabic, Jordanian | English, American

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study demonstrates that differences in apology strategies used by native speakers of American English and Jordanian Arabic, are to be found in explicitness of apologizing and within the groups, between sexes.