Keiko Okumura
List of John Benjamins publications in which Keiko Okumura is involved.
Article
2000 The concept of self and apology strategies in two cultures Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 10:1, pp. 1–24 | Article
The speech act of apologising aims at maintaining, restoring and enhancing interpersonal relationships. Most of the existing studies of apology in different languages and cultures follow the Brown and Levinson (1987) approach and describe apology as a ‘negative politeness’ strategy. In this paper,… read more
