In:Local Grammar Approaches to Speech Act Studies: Apology in contemporary spoken British English
Hang Su
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics 123] 2025
► pp. 153–179
Chapter 7A local grammar approach to contrastive speech act analysis
The impact of speaker sex and culture on apology
Published online: 8 August 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.123.c7
https://doi.org/10.1075/scl.123.c7
Article outline
- 7.1Introduction
- 7.2Sex differences in apology behaviour
- 7.3Revisiting the local grammar approach to quantifying speech act realisations
- 7.4Sex differences of apology and their diachronic changes in contemporary spoken British English
- 7.4.1Corpora
- 7.4.2Data retrieval
- 7.4.3Data analyses
- 7.4.4Distribution of the local grammar patterns across the four sub‑corpora
- 7.4.5Results and discussion
- 7.5Local grammar and intercultural speech act studies
- 7.5.1Background
- 7.5.2A brief note on data and method
- 7.5.3Analyses, results, and discussion
- 7.6Summary
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