The semantic and pragmatic analysis of South Korean and Australian English apologetic speech acts

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 257-278

  Kim, Heesoo ^a  

^a NONE   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Apology; Australian English; Discourse completion task; Mianhada; Natural semantic metalanguage; Sorry; South Korean; Speech act

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149123510     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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