Publications

Publication details [#48745]

Hong, Wei. 2008. Effects of cultural background of college students on apology strategies. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2008 (189) : 149–163.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | crosslinguistic perspective | language and culture | pragmatics | student

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper explores how cultural backgrounds of college students in a technology and a Chinese language class, as well as sociopragmatic issues, affect their e-mailed apology strategies for class absences, expressend in English.