Apologies Bibliography
Compiled by Zohar Kampf, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
zohar29@zahav.net.il
If you would like to add references to this bibliography, please e mail Zohar Kampf.
Linguistic Politeness texts are marked with *
* Abadi, Adina, 1990. The speech act of apology in political life. Journal of Pragmatics
14 (3), 467–471.
Achter. P. J. (2000) Narrative, intertextuality, and apologia in contemporary political
scandals. The Southern Communication Journal, 65 (4): 318-333.
Susan Wise Bauer (2009) The Art of the Public Grovel: Sexual Sin and Public
Confession in America. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
* Bavelas, Janet, 2004. An analysis of formal apologies by Canadian churches to first
nations. Occasional papers No. 1. Center for studies in religious
and society.
http://csrs.uvic.ca/publications/occasional/ChurchApologiesNov04_Newcover.pdf.
Benoit, W. L. (1995). Accounts, Excuse and Apologies: A Theory of Image Restoration
Strategies. Albany: State University of New York Press.
Benoit, W. L. (1997). Hugh Grant's image restoration discourse: An actor apologizes.
Communication Quarterly. 45 (3): 251–267.
* Bergman, L.M. and Kasper, G. (1993). Perception and Performance in Native and
Nonnative Apology. In: Kasper, G. and Blum-Kulka, S.(eds.). Interlanguage Pragmatics.
(pp. 82-107) Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Blaney, J.R., and Benoit, W.L. (2001). The Clinton scandals and the politics of image
restoration. Westport, CT: Praeger.
* Blum-Kulka, S. and Olshtain, E. (1984), Requests and apologies: A cross-cultural study
of speech act realization patterns (CCSARP). Applied Linguistics, 5 (3): 196-215.
* Blum-Kulka, S., House, J. and Kasper, G. (Eds.).(1989). Cross-Cultural Pragmatics:
Requests and Apologies. New Jersey: Ablex.
Borkin, A and Reinhart, S.M. (1978). Excuse me and I'm Sorry. TESOL Quarterly, 12
(1): 57-69.
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Brooks, R. L. (1999). The age of apology. In: R. L. Brooks (Ed.). When Sorry Isn't
Enough: The Controversy Over Apologies and Reparation for Human Injustice. (pp. 312) New York: New York University Press.
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Cohen, A.D. and Olshtain, E. (1985) Comparing apologies across languages. In: K. R
Jankowsky,. Scientific and Humanistic Dimensions of language (pp. 175-184).
Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Cohen, R. (2004). Apology and reconciliation in international relations. in Y, Bar-SimanTov (ed). From Conflict Resolution to Reconciliation (pp. 177-196). New York: Oxford
University Press.
* Coulmas, F. (1981). Poison to your soul: Thanks and apologies contrastively viewed.
In: F. Coulmas (Ed.) Conversational Routine. (Pp. 69-92) The Hague: Mouton De
Gruyter.
Cunningham, M. (1999). Saying sorry: The politics of apology. Political Quarterly, 70
(3): 285-293.
Derrida, J. (1997). On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness. London and New-York:
Routledge.
Digeser, P. E. (2001). Political Forgiveness. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
* Deutschmann, Mats, 2003. Apologizing in British English. Umea University Press,
Umea.
* Edmondson, W. J. (1981). On saying you’re sorry. In: F. Coulmas, (Ed.)
Conversational Routine (pp. 273-288). The Hague: Mouton De Gruyter.
Ely, R and Gleason, B. J. (2006) sorry I said that: apologies in young children's
discourse. Journal of Child Language. 33 (3): 599-620.
* Fraser, B. (1981). On apologizing. In: F. Coulmas, (Ed.). Conversational Routine.
(Pp. 259-271).The Hague: Mouton De Gruyter.
* Garcia, C. (1989).Apologizing in English: Politeness strategies used by native and non
native speakers. Multilingua 8 (1): 3-20.
Goffman, E. (1971). Relations in Public. London: Allen Lane.
Govier, T., and Verwoerd, W. (2002). The promise and pitfalls of apology. Journal of
Social Philosophy. 33 (1): 67-82
Gibney, Mark, Howerd-Hassmann, Rhoda, Coicaud, Jean-Mark Sreiner, Niklaus, (Eds.),
2008. The Age of Apology. Pennsylvania University Press, Pennsylvania.
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* Harris, Sandra, Grainger, Karen, Mullany, Louise, 2006. The pragmatics of political
apologies. Discourse and Society 17 (6), 715–737.
* Grainger, K and Harris, S. (2007). Introduction: special issue on apologies. Journal of
Politeness Research.3 (1): 1-10.
Harter M. L., Ronald. S. J. and Japp, P. M. (2000). President Clinton's apology for the
Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment: a narrative of remembrance, redefinition, and
reconciliation. Howard Journal of Communications. 11 (1): 19-34.
Harvey, J. (1995). The emerging practice of institutional apologies. International
Journal of Applied Philosophy. 9 (2): 57-65.
Hearit, K. M. (2006). Crisis Management by Apology. New-Jersey: Lawerance Earlbaum.
*Holmes, J. (1989). Sex differences and apologies: one aspect of communicative
competence. Applied Linguistics, 10 (20: 194–213.
* Holmes, J. (1990). Apologies in New Zealand English. Language in Society, 19 (2):
155-199.
* Ide R. (1998). 'Sorry for your kindness': Japanese interactional ritual in public
discourse. Journal of Pragmatics. 29 (5): 509-529
* Jaworski, A. (1994) ‘Apologies and Non-apologies: Negotiation in Speech Act
Realisation’. Text 14 (2): 185-206.
Joyce, R. (1999) Apologizing. Public Affairs Quarterly. 13(2): 159-173.
* Kampf, Z. (2008) ‘The Pragmatics of Forgiveness: Judgments of Apologies in the
Israeli Political Arena’, Discourse & Society 19 (5): 577-598.
* Kampf, Z., Public (non-) apologies: The discourse of minimizing responsibility. J.
Pragmatics (2009), doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2008.11.007
Kampf, Z. (forthcoming). ‘The Age of Apology: Evidence from the Israeli Public
Discourse’. Social Semiotics
Kampf, Z. (forthcoming). Journalists as Actors in Social Dramas of Apology.
Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism
* Kampf, Z and Blum-Kulka, S. (2007). Do children apologize to each other? Apology
events in young Israeli peer discourse. Journal of Politeness Research.3 (1): 11-38.
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Kiss, E. (1998) Saying we're sorry: Liberal democracy and the rhetoric of collective
identity. Constellations, 4 (3): 387-398.
Kotani, M. (2002). Expressing Gratitude and Indebtedness: Japanese Speakers Use of “
I’m Sorry” in English Conversation. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 35
(1): 39-72.
* Koutsantoni, D. (2007) "I can now apologize to you twice from the bottom of my
heart": Apologies in Greek reality TV. Journal of Politeness Research.3 (1): 93-124.
Kramer-Moore, D and Moore, M (2003). Pardon me for breathing: seven types of
apology. A Review of General Semantics. 60 (2): 160-170.
* Lakoff, R, B. (2000). The Language War. Berkeley, California: University of California
Press.
* Lakoff, R. B. (2001). Nine way of looking at apologies: The necessity for
interdisciplinary theory and method in discourse analysis. In: D. Schiffrin D. Tannen,
and H. Hamilton, (Eds.). Handbook of Discourse Analysis (pp. 199-214). London:
Blackwell.
* Liebersohn, Y., Neuman, Y., and Bekerman, Z. (2004). Oh baby, it's hard for me to say
I'm sorry: Public apologetic speech and cultural rhetorical resources. Journal of
Pragmatics. 36 (5): 921-944.
Luke, A. (1997). ‘The Material Effects of the Word: 'Stolen Children' and Public
Discourse’. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 18(3): 343-368.
* Meier, A.J. (1998) ‘Apologies: What Do We Know?’ International Journal of Applied
Linguistics 8 (2): 215-231.
* Meier, A. J. (2004). Conflict and the Power of Apologies. PhiN (Philologie im Netz).
30: 1-17. http://www.fu-berlin.de/phin/phin30/p30t1.htm
* Murata, Kumiko (1998): "Has He Apologized or Not"?: A Cross-Cultural
Misunderstanding between the UK and Japan on the Occasion of the 50th Anniversary of
VJ Day in Britain". Pragmatics 8, 501–513.
* Obeng S.G. (1999). Apologies in Akan discourse. Journal of Pragmatics. 31 (5): 709734.
Ohbuchi, K. Agarie, N and Kameda, M. (1989). Apology as aggression control: Its role in
mediating appraisal of and response to harm. Journal of Personality and Social
Psychology, 56 (2): 219-227
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* Olshtain, E. (1983). Sociocultural competence and language transfer: The case of
apology. In: S. M. Gass and L. Selinker (Eds.). Language Transfer in Language
Learning. (pp. 232-249) Rowley, MA : Newbury House.
* Olshtain, E. (1989). Apologies across languages. In: S. Blum-Kulka, J. House, and G.
Kasper, (Eds.). Cross-Cultural Pragmatics: Requests and Apologies (pp. 155-173). New
Jersey: Ablex.
* Olshtain, E., and Cohen, A.D. (1983). Apology: A speech act set. In: N. Wolfson and E,
Jude (Eds.), Sociolinguistics and Language Acquisition, (pp 18-35). Rowley, MA:
Newbury House.
* Owen, M. (1983). Apologies and Remedial Interchanges. New York: Mouton
Publisher.
Park, H. S., Lee .E.H. and Song A.J. (2005) "I am sorry to send you SPAM": Crosscultural differences in use of apologies in email advertising in Korea and the U.S. Human
communication research. 31 (3): 365-398.
* Reiter, R. M. (2000). Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay. Amsterdam:
Benjamins.
* Robinson, J. D. (2004). The sequential Organization of "explicit" apologies in naturally
occurred English. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 37 (3): 291-330.
Scher S.J. and Darley J.M. (1997). How effective are the things people say to apologize?
Effects of the realization of the apology speech act. Journal of
Psycholinguistics Research. 26 (1): 127-140.
Schlenker, B. and Darby, B. W. (1981). The Use of apologies in social predicaments.
Social Psychology Quarterly. 44 (3): 271-278.
Sugimoto, N.(1997). A Japan-U.S. comparison of apology styles. Communication
Research, 24 (4): 349-369
* Suszczynska, M. (1999). Apologizing in English, Polish and Hungarian: different
languages, different strategies. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (8): 1053–1065.
Taft L. (2000). Apology subverted: The comodification of apology. Yale Law Journal.
109 (5): 1135-1160.
Takaku S. (2001). The effects of apology and perspective taking on interpersonal
forgiveness: A dissonance-attribution model of interpersonal forgiveness. Journal of
Social Psychology 141 (4): 494-508.
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Takaku, S., Weiner, B., and Ohbuchi, K. I (2001) A crosscultural examination of the
effect of apology and perspective taking on forgiveness. Journal of Language and Social
Psychology, 20 (1-2): 144-166.
Tavuchis, N. (1991). Mea Culpa: A Sociology of Apology and Reconciliation.
Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
* Trosborg, A. (1987). Apology Strategies in Natives/Non-Natives. Journal-ofPragmatics, 11, 2, 147-167.
* Trosborg, A. (1995). Interlanguage pragmatics: Requests, Complains, Apologies
(Studies in Anthropological linguistics 7). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
Torpey, J. (2003). The entrepreneurs of memory. OpenDemocracy.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/faith-apologypolitics/article_907.jsp
Warner, M. (2002). Sorry: the present state of apology. OpenDemocracy.
http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-3-76-603.jsp
Zhang, J. and Benoit, W. (2004). Message strategies of Saudi Arabia’s image restoration
campaign in the U.S. after September 11. Public Relations Review, 30(2): 162-167.
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