"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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