The Language War

Lakoff, Robin Tolmach

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“…We consider current serious offences as apology narratives that mainly involve different scandals that stem from politically incorrect statements (Lakoff, 2000), sex, misuse of money and power (Thompson, 2000) or violations of diplomatic codes in the international arena (Cohen, 2004).…”

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“…Several researchers consider the severity of the offence as the starting point for categorizing apologies (Cohen, 2004; Deutschmann, 2003; Harris et al, 2006; Holmes, 1990; Lakoff, 2000; Thompson, 2000). Harris et al (2006) in their work on British political apologies suggest that the most useful categorization of political apologies is the one ‘which relates to the relative “seriousness” (or magnitude) of the act involved’.…”

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The pragmatics of Indian political apologies: Sorry, but not sorry

Shukla

2020

Discourse & Society

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While there is a considerable body of research on the pragmatics of apology across the globe, the Indian apology discourse has received hardly any attention from scholars. Political apologies particularly, have been neglected as an important area of research in India. The act of tendering public political apologies, which was almost absent from the Indian repertoire, is an emerging trend in India. This article aims to identify the salient characteristics of Indian political apologies by contextual analysis of the apology texts and is a first of its kind as far as known to the authors. Indian political leaders use evasion and manipulation in apology utterances to avoid an explicit apology. The graver the transgression, the greater the hesitation to offer an explicit apology. We suggest that the categorization of political apologies should take into consideration the stature of the political apologizer also and not just the magnitude of the offence, as this can have a significant impact on the apology behaviour.

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The pragmatics of Indian political apologies: Sorry, but not sorry

Shukla

2020

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“…Outcomes become predictable and standardized, with positivism) nothing more than a call for hard-nosed rigor in documenting processes and outcomes. As Robin Lakoff (2000) notes, however, insistence on more and more precise, arcane data also empowers those who can interpret the data. In terms that recall Walter Fisher's (1987)…”

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Unma(s)king Education in the Image of Business: A Vivisection of Educational Consumerism

Schwartzman

2017

Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies

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Configuring students as consumers and higher education as a commodity have been widely suggested as ways to empower students and improve efficiency. This critical autoethnography challenges the assumptions and implications of modeling education after free market economic principles. Personal perspectives on the promotion and tenure process, students confronting the marketplace, and exemplary mentoring accompany poetic reflections on market-infused university life.

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“…In addition to reframing past events, APLA members, as did Ms Lubowski, went off-script to reframe the hearing itself. Lakoff (2000:48) observes that ‘reframing is traumatic, and we resent being forced to do it’. Thus, it is not surprising that the key of the APLA hearing was defensive, even confrontational, to the point where the TRC members had to perform footing shifts to reassure APLA leadership that they were not ‘on trial’ and that ‘the robust and penetrative’ questions of the commissioners were not ‘a witch hunt’.…”

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Going off-script and reframing the frame: The dialogic intertwining of the centripetal and centrifugal voices in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings

Tovares

2016

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After the end of apartheid, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was established to uncover the truth and, most importantly, unite a deeply divided nation. This overarching goal of reconciliation not only framed the TRC’s work, but also shaped each hearing so that it followed a somewhat predictable script. In this article, bringing together Goffman’s framing and Bakhtin’s dialogicality, I analyze two selected hearings to show how the testifiers and the TRC commissioners go off-script and thereby reframe participants’ relationships in terms of power and solidarity, the hearing as a social situation, and understandings of the past and the truth. Suggesting that the TRC officials represent centripetal (official) voices and the testifiers represent centrifugal (marginal) voices, I show how going off-script works to not only reframe and laminate frames in a highly organized institutional encounter, but also is a way of intertwining the centripetal and centrifugal voices, thus creating dialogicality.

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The Language War

Cited by 147 publications

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The pragmatics of Indian political apologies: Sorry, but not sorry

The pragmatics of Indian political apologies: Sorry, but not sorry

Unma(s)king Education in the Image of Business: A Vivisection of Educational Consumerism

Going off-script and reframing the frame: The dialogic intertwining of the centripetal and centrifugal voices in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings

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