In:Local Grammar Approaches to Speech Act Studies: Apology in contemporary spoken British English
Hang Su
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 123] 2025
► pp. 128–152
Chapter 6A local grammar approach to diachronic speech act analysis
Changing patterns of apology in contemporary spoken British English
Published online: 8 August 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.123.c6
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.123.c6
Article outline
- 6.1Introduction
- 6.2Diachronic speech act studies
- 6.2.1An introduction to diachronic speech act analysis
- 6.2.2Methodological issues concerning diachronic speech act studies
- 6.2.3Diachronic investigations into apologies
- 6.3Local grammar analyses and the quantification of speech act realisations
- 6.3.1Utterances containing different IFIDs may realise the same pattern
- 6.3.2Utterances containing the same IFID may realise distinct patterns
- 6.3.3An interim summary
- 6.4Changing patterns of apology in contemporary spoken British English
- 6.4.1Apology in the British society
- 6.4.2Data and method
- 6.4.3Data analyses
- 6.4.4Results and discussion
- 6.4.5General discussion
- 6.5Summary
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