"Oops, I didn't mean to be so flippant". A corpus pragmatic analysis of apologies in blog data

Ursula Lutzky; Andrew Kehoe

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2016.12.007

"Oops, I didn't mean to be so flippant". A corpus pragmatic analysis of apologies in blog data

Ursula Lutzky
, Andrew Kehoe

Institute for Language and Discourse in Business

Publication: Scientific journal › Journal article › peer-review

Abstract

This article studies the form oops and its function as an Illocutionary Force Indicating Device (IFID) signalling apologies in a corpus of blog posts and reader comments. The focus is on the adaptability of speech acts to online media and the implications for the formal choice of linguistic expressions beyond the prototypical examples of routinised apology IFIDs. Thus, this study takes a closer look at the pragmatic functions of oops in the Birmingham Blog Corpus, a diachronically-structured collection covering the period 2000–2010, to gain new insights into its use and distribution.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	27 - 36
Journal	Journal of Pragmatics
Volume	116
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2016.12.007
Publication status	Published - 2017

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)

602004 General linguistics
602
602011 Computational linguistics

Keywords

Apology
Speech Act
Blogs
CMC
Collocation
corpus linguistics

Access to Document

10.1016/j.pragma.2016.12.007Licence: Unspecified

Cite this

@article{fcb654a0fafb4ddd88b00b3b71926c91,

title = "{"}Oops, I didn't mean to be so flippant{"}. A corpus pragmatic analysis of apologies in blog data",

abstract = "This article studies the form oops and its function as an Illocutionary Force Indicating Device (IFID) signalling apologies in a corpus of blog posts and reader comments. The focus is on the adaptability of speech acts to online media and the implications for the formal choice of linguistic expressions beyond the prototypical examples of routinised apology IFIDs. Thus, this study takes a closer look at the pragmatic functions of oops in the Birmingham Blog Corpus, a diachronically-structured collection covering the period 2000–2010, to gain new insights into its use and distribution.",

keywords = "Apology, Speech Act, Blogs, CMC, Collocation, corpus linguistics",

author = "Ursula Lutzky and Andrew Kehoe",

year = "2017",

doi = "10.1016/j.pragma.2016.12.007",

language = "English",

volume = "116",

pages = "27 -- 36",

journal = "Journal of Pragmatics",

issn = "0378-2166",

publisher = "Elsevier B.V.",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - "Oops, I didn't mean to be so flippant". A corpus pragmatic analysis of apologies in blog data

AU - Lutzky, Ursula

AU - Kehoe, Andrew

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - This article studies the form oops and its function as an Illocutionary Force Indicating Device (IFID) signalling apologies in a corpus of blog posts and reader comments. The focus is on the adaptability of speech acts to online media and the implications for the formal choice of linguistic expressions beyond the prototypical examples of routinised apology IFIDs. Thus, this study takes a closer look at the pragmatic functions of oops in the Birmingham Blog Corpus, a diachronically-structured collection covering the period 2000–2010, to gain new insights into its use and distribution.

AB - This article studies the form oops and its function as an Illocutionary Force Indicating Device (IFID) signalling apologies in a corpus of blog posts and reader comments. The focus is on the adaptability of speech acts to online media and the implications for the formal choice of linguistic expressions beyond the prototypical examples of routinised apology IFIDs. Thus, this study takes a closer look at the pragmatic functions of oops in the Birmingham Blog Corpus, a diachronically-structured collection covering the period 2000–2010, to gain new insights into its use and distribution.

KW - Apology

KW - Speech Act

KW - Blogs

KW - CMC

KW - Collocation

KW - corpus linguistics

UR - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378216616307020

U2 - 10.1016/j.pragma.2016.12.007

DO - 10.1016/j.pragma.2016.12.007

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0378-2166

VL - 116

SP - 27

EP - 36

JO - Journal of Pragmatics

JF - Journal of Pragmatics

ER -

"Oops, I didn't mean to be so flippant". A corpus pragmatic analysis of apologies in blog data

Abstract

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (ÖFOS)

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links