Publications

Publication details [#46095]

Kasanga, Luanga A. and Joy-Christine Lwanga-Lumu. 2007. Cross-cultural linguistic realization of politeness: A study of apologies in English and Setswana. Journal of Politeness Research 3 (1).

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

apologizing | crosscultural communication | cultural script | language variety | politeness

Language as a subject

English | Setswana

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/JPLR/html

Annotation

Drawing on qantitative data, elicited by discourse completion tasks, along the lines of the Cross Cultural Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP) project's framework, this contrastive study compares apologies in native and “nativized” English varieties and the South African Setswana variety.