To Use or Not to Use the Shorter Forms: A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Apologetic Expressions “Sorry and I’m sorry” in American Spoken English Discourse

Arizavi, Saleh; Choubsaz, Yazdan

doi:10.1007/s41701-018-0045-z

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“…Their claims are somewhat more qualified, and they are based on apologies collected or elicited with the diary method and discourse completion tasks respectively (see also Jucker 2018: 377). corpus data (for other recent corpus-based approaches see, for instance, Arizavi andChoubsaz 2019, andAijmer 2019).…”

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“He offered an apologetic smile”

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2023

Pragmatics &Amp; Beyond New Series

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This contribution focuses on the multimodal aspects of apologies. In terms of politeness and face management, apologies are ambivalent. They are redressive and indicate a concern for the hearer, but they also include a certain amount of self-blame and thus threaten the speaker’s own positive face. Narrative descriptions of apologetic gestures were retrieved from the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) through the collocation profiles of apology expressions. Such gestures may occur in isolation without a spoken apology, or they may occur together with a more or less explicit apology. In many cases, the apologetic gesture helps to discursively negotiate the severity of an event that may have been perceived as an offence and the speaker’s responsibility for it.

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