“Oops, I didn’t mean to be so flippant”: A corpus pragmatic analysis of apologies in blog data
Lutzky, Ursula and Kehoe, Andrew (2016) “Oops, I didn’t mean to be so flippant”: A corpus pragmatic analysis of apologies in blog data. Journal of Pragmatics, 116. pp. 27-36. ISSN 0378-2166
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Abstract
This chapter studies the form oops and its function as an Illocutionary Force Indicating Device (IFID) signalling apologies in a corpus of blog posts and reader comments. The focus is on the adaptability of speech acts to online media and the implications for the formal choice of linguistic expressions beyond the prototypical examples of routinised apology IFIDs. Thus, this study takes a closer look at the pragmatic functions of oops in the Birmingham Blog Corpus, a diachronically-structured collection covering the period 2000-2010, to gain new insights into its use and distribution.
| Item Type: | Article | ||||
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| Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.12.007 | ||||
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | apology, speech act, blogs, CMC, collocation, corpus linguistics | ||||
| Subjects: | CAH19 - language and area studies > CAH19-01 - English studies > CAH19-01-07 - linguistics CAH19 - language and area studies > CAH19-01 - English studies > CAH19-01-01 - English studies (non-specific) |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > College of English and Media | ||||
| Depositing User: | Andrew Kehoe | ||||
| Date Deposited: | 06 Jul 2017 11:00 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 11 Jun 2024 12:08 | ||||
| URI: | https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4794 |
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