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Publication details [#50186]

Meier, A. J. 1998. Apologies: what do we know? International Journal of Applied Linguistics 8 (2) : 215–231.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | context | culture | description | explaining

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/ijal

Annotation

This paper argues that mature apology research has to move from a descriptive to an explanatory goal in terms of the underlying cultural assumptions that define the perception of contextual factors which in turn define apology behavior.