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Publication details [#56232]

González-Cruz, María-Isabel. 2012. Apologizing in Spanish: A study of the strategies used by university students in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Pragmatics 22 (4) : 543–565.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | dialectology | pragmatics | sociolinguistics | speech act

Language as a subject

Spanish, Canary Islands

Place, Publisher

International Pragmatics Association

Journal DOI

10.1075/prag

Annotation

This paper explores the apology strategies of university students in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and affecting factors such as age, gender, familiarity and offense rigor. It also proposes directions for intercultural pragmatic research and EFL teaching and learning.