A small corpus of student e-mail apologies to academic staff was collected in order to investigate the nature and structure of the apology act...
Keywords: apology, sequence, computer-mediated discourse, equity, politeness, face apology
02/2007 | Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture, Walter de GruyterThis is the fifth in a series of papers on an algebra, derived from mythology, that can model symbolic processes...
Keywords: algebra, Association, counting, number, sequence, symbol
01/2008 | Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter