"Sorry. I'm so busy that I carelessly spilt some oyster sauce on you.": the uses of apologies among a group of bilingual speakers in Hong Kong

  • Sheon Ming Simon Tham

    Student thesis: Master's Thesis

    Abstract

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    Date of Award1995
    Original languageEnglish

    User-Defined Keywords

    • Apologizing
    • Cantonese dialects
    • China
    • English language
    • Hong Kong
    • Social aspects
    • Speech acts (Linguistics)

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