“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
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.12.007
Dates:
DateEvent
30 December 2016Published Online
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)
Divisions: Faculty of Arts, Design and Media > Birmingham Institute of Media and English > School of English
Depositing User: Kehoe
Date Deposited: 06 Jul 2017 11:00
Last Modified: 03 Mar 2022 15:59
URI: https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4794

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