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Publication details [#50981]

Mulamba, Kashama. 2009. Social beliefs for the realization of the speech acts of apology and complaint as defined in Ciluba, French, and English. Pragmatics 19 (4) : 543–564.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | belief | complaining | language and culture | multilingualism

Language as a subject

Ciluba | English | French

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper explores how the social beliefs of native French, English and Ciluba speakers and trilingual French-English-Ciluba speakers affect the realization of apology and complaint speech acts.