Compares apology strategies in Japanese learners and native English speakers, indicating cultural differences.
I used a concordancing program to search for “sorry” in a corpus of interviews with Japanese learners of English for the Standard Speaking Test along with a parallel corpus of interviews with native English speakers in order to identify apologies. I analyzed the apologies I found using an adapted version of Cohen and Olshtain’s (1981) typology of apology strategies and compared the Japanese speakers with the native English speakers. In addition, I compared the strategies that the two groups used in a role play that required an apology.
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