What Korean apologies require of politeness theory

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1303-1317

  Hatfield, Hunter ^a,b   Hahn, Jee Won ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Apologies; Face; Korean; Politeness; Sociolinguistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79551601671     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.10.028     Document Type: Article

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