The pragmatics of forgiveness: Judgments of apologies in the Israeli political arena

Discourse and Society

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 577-598

  Kampf, Zohar ^a,b  

^a UCLA Center for Language Interaction and Culture   (United States)

^b NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Apology; Forgiveness; Insincerity; Interpretive community; Political discourse; Political face

Indexed keywords

EID: 50249155859     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926508092244     Document Type: Article

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