In:Local Grammar Approaches to Speech Act Studies: Apology in contemporary spoken British English
Hang Su
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 123] 2025
► pp. 72–102
Chapter 4Developing local grammars of speech acts
Published online: 8 August 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.123.c4
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.123.c4
Article outline
- 4.1Introduction
- 4.2Why a local grammar approach to account for speech act realisations?
- 4.3Corpora and methodology
- 4.3.1The corpora
- 4.3.2Data retrieval
- 4.4Local grammar analyses of apologies
- 4.4.1Set 1: Simple patterns
- 4.4.2Set 2: Slightly modified patterns
- 4.4.3Set 3: Relatively complex patterns
- 4.4.4Set 4: More complex patterns
- 4.4.5Set 5: Highly complex patterns
- 4.4.6An overview of the local grammar of apology in contemporary spoken British English
- 4.4.7General discussion
- 4.5Local grammars of speech acts in languages other than English
- 4.5.1A local grammar of exemplification in Chinese
- 4.5.2A local grammar of apology in Italian
- 4.5.3An interim summary
- 4.6Developing local grammars of speech acts: Benefits and challenges
- 4.6.1Benefits
- 4.6.2Challenges
- 4.7Summary
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