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Expressing Gratitude and Indebtedness: Japanese Speakers' Use of "I'm Sorry" in English Conversation

Mariko Kotani
Pages 39-72 | Published online: 14 Jun 2010

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Mariko Kotani. (2016) Two Codes for Remedying Problematic Situations: Japanese and English Speakers’ Views of Explanations and Apologies in the United States. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 45:2, pages 126-144.
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Mariko Kotani. (2008) Reinforced Codes and Boundaries: Japanese Speakers' Remedial Episode Avoidance in Problematic Situations With “Americans”. Research on Language and Social Interaction 41:4, pages 339-363.
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Tatsuya Imai. (2023) Why do we feel close to a person who expresses gratitude? Exploring mediating roles of perceived warmth, conscientiousness, and agreeableness. PsyCh Journal.
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Carmen Garcia. (2022) Peruvian Spanish speakers’ cultural preferences in expressing gratitude. Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Pragmatics / Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) Pragmatics, pages 21-49.
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عبد الرحيم خير الله عمر الشريف. (2021) التكامل بين اللسانيات، والعلوم الإنسانية والاجتماعية في إبراز هدايات القصص القرآني؛ لمكافحة خطاب الكراهية. تجسير 3:1, pages 54-74.
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Mike Alvarez. (2021) The Suicidal Self in Cyberspace: Discursive Constructions of Identity in a Pro-Recovery Suicide Forum. Frontiers in Communication 6.
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Anis Chtourou. (2020) Le pouvoir de l’excuse dans la récupération de service. Projectics / Proyéctica / Projectique n°27:3, pages 39-53.
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Anne Becker, Yuko Asano-Cavanagh & Grace Zhang. (2020) Cultural adaptations. Babel. Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation Babel / Revue internationale de la traduction / International Journal of Translation Babel 66:3, pages 457-483.
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Gloria Bernabé-Valero, Carmen Moret-Tatay, Isabel Iborra-Marmolejo & José Salvador Blasco-Magraner. (2019) Psychometric Properties of the Indebtedness Scale (IS-R) in Spanish University Students. Frontiers in Psychology 10.
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Hang Su. (2017) “Thank bloody God it’s Friday”: A Local Grammar of Thanking. Corpus Pragmatics 2:1, pages 83-105.
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Maureen Guirdham & Oliver GuirdhamMaureen Guirdham & Oliver Guirdham. 2017. Communicating Across Cultures at Work. Communicating Across Cultures at Work 155 180 .
Caroline Zygar & Jeffrey Angus. 2016. Psychologie der Werte. Psychologie der Werte 37 52 .
Stephen J. Moody. (2014) “Well, I’m a Gaijin”: Constructing identity through English and humor in the international workplace. Journal of Pragmatics 60, pages 75-88.
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Hye Eun Lee & Hee Sun Park. (2011) Why Koreans Are More Likely to Favor “Apology,” While Americans Are More Likely to Favor “Thank You”. Human Communication Research 37:1, pages 125-146.
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Maureen GuirdhamMaureen Guirdham. 2011. Communicating across Cultures at Work. Communicating across Cultures at Work 181 228 .
Ryan Fehr & Michele J. Gelfand. (2010) When apologies work: How matching apology components to victims’ self-construals facilitates forgiveness. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 113:1, pages 37-50.
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Cynthia Lee. (2008) The Cantonese apology style for personal offences in native and second languages in electronic communication. Journal of Intercultural Communication 8:3, pages 1-16.
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Mariko Kotani. 2008. The International Encyclopedia of Communication. The International Encyclopedia of Communication.
Andrea DeCapua & Joan Findlay Dunham. (2007) The pragmatics of advice giving: Cross-cultural perspectives. Intercultural Pragmatics 4:3.
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Adam B. Cohen. (2006) On Gratitude. Social Justice Research 19:2, pages 254-276.
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Gila A. Schauer & Svenja Adolphs. (2006) Expressions of gratitude in corpus and DCT data: Vocabulary, formulaic sequences, and pedagogy. System 34:1, pages 119-134.
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Karen Tracy & Kathleen Haspel. (2004) Language and Social Interaction: Its Institutional Identity, Intellectual Landscape, and Discipline-Shifting Agenda. Journal of Communication 54:4, pages 788-816.
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Bernard Guerin. (2003) Language use as Social Strategy: A Review and an Analytic Framework for the Social Sciences. Review of General Psychology 7:3, pages 251-298.
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