Anna Trosborg’s scientific contributions

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Publications (1)


Interlanguage Pragmatics: Requests, Complaints, and Apologies
  • Book

January 1995

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Anna Trosborg

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... These opposing perceptions of the act of apologizing also influence the way in which apologies are realized and negotiated in verbal exchanges. Many studies have shown that the communicative act of apologizing may be performed by means of a single speech act or a combination of several speech acts, resulting into a speech act set, an apology event or a communicative act (Trosborg, 1995). In an apology event, for instance, the first apology act constitutes the core unit of the communicative act and the other speech acts function as secondary units or modification devices. ...

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Gender Variation in Cameroon French Apologies
Interlanguage Pragmatics: Requests, Complaints, and Apologies
  • Citing Book
  • January 1995