Excuse me vs. (I’m) sorry as two contrasting markers of interlocutive relations
Building on the Theory of Interlocutive Relation, we hypothesise that the semantic and pragmatic meaning of excuse me and (I’m) sorry, which are not fundamentally forms of apology, derives from the fact that they establish two different kinds of Interlocutive Relations, guiding towards possible inte...
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Language: | English |
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Cercle linguistique du Centre et de l'Ouest - CerLICO
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Series: | Corela |
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Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/corela/9711 |