Dissertations / Theses: 'Apologizing'

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Chalkley, Marie Leone Enterline Andrew John. "Saying sorry conflict atrocity and political apology /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-11054.

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Overstreet, Abigail Kolleen. "Apologizing after Microaggressions| The Influence on Client Perceptions of Therapists." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10808072.

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If a therapist does something that offends a client, should the therapist apologize? What if the offensive act is an ethnic or racial microaggression? The first question—regarding the potential uses of apology by therapists in general, has received very little attention from researchers. Thirty years ago, Goldberg (1987) discussed the topic and suggested that the use of apology by a therapist was unnecessary unless the therapist made a blatant, objective error such as overcharging the client. To the researchers’ knowledge past discussions of therapist apology have not addressed the notion of microaggressions or even multicultural psychology more broadly. The purpose of the current empirical study is to address that issue by measuring perceptions of a therapist who does, or does not, apologize after committing an ethnic/racial microaggression toward a client.

Participants will read one of six vignettes, developed with guidance from Sue (2010), and respond to survey questions immediately following. The researchers hypothesize that vignettes that portray the therapist apologizing after the microaggression will elicit more favorable attitudes about the therapist than comparable vignettes that include the microaggression with no apology. It is also speculated that the control condition (no microaggression is committed) will elicit more favorable attitudes toward the therapist than either condition in which a microaggression is committed.

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Masini, Marisa Isabel Cordella, and n/a. "Apologizing : a cross-cultural study in Chilean Spanish and Australian English." University of Canberra. Education, 1989. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060907.102205.

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Apology is intended to 'set things right' through "remedial work" (Goffman 1971). This involves, in some cultures, a face threatening act on the part of the Speaker who undertakes an apology to maintain or re-establish social equilibrium or harmony (Edmondson 1981 and Leech 1983) between speaker and hearer. Several studies across languages (Cohen and Olshtain 1981, Olshtain 1983, Trosborg 1987, Holmes 1989) investigated the different social and contextual factors that influence native speakers to select one or a group of "semantic formula(s)" (Fraser 1981) in the act of apologizing. Nevertheless the literature is still in its infancy (Fraser 1981 and Holmes 1989) in respect to the gender differences between speaker (apologizer) and hearer (recipient), and in the comparison of Spanish and English. Therefore this study aims to investigate which strategies, semantic formulas and excuses are most commonly used by female and male speakers of Chilean Spanish and Australian English. To determine similarities and dissimilarities between their apologies, a role play was carried out in their mother tongue. Twenty two Chileans (twelve females and ten males) who had lived for not more than three years in Australia and twenty Australians (ten males and ten females) who, like the Chileans, varied in age from 17 to 30 and who were students of secondary or tertiary institutions helped as informants in this study. The speech event was designed to elicit an apology and was held constant for both groups. Results show that Chileans in comparison with Australians make less use of explicit expression of apology. Nevertheless they appear to give more explanations than Australians in the act of apologizing. Dissimilarities in both languages were also found in the use of speaker and hearer oriented apologies and in the the use of some strategies and intensifiers, in which the addressee gender played an important role in both languages.

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Whited, Matthew C. "The influence of forgiveness and apology on cardiovascular reactivity to mental stress." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10419.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2009.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 105 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-51).

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Ho, Shuk Man Connie. "A comparison of L2 learners' interlanguage performance on apologizing in terms of age." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2008. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/947.

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Perry, Sam Medhurst Martin J. "The rhetorical dimension of an apology for slavery." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/5080.

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Jehle, Alayna. "The impact of apologies, accounts, and remorse on attributions of responsibility implications for the legal system /." abstract and full text PDF (free order & download UNR users only), 2007. http://0-gateway.proquest.com.innopac.library.unr.edu/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3275829.

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Aloia, Lindsey S. "I'm sorry about your face a study of face, politeness, and investment in the context of apology /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 59 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1885590061&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Cannon, Michael. "The importance of apologizing for organizational transgressions : lessons from the 2008 Maple Leaf meat recall /." Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2009. http://library.smu.ca:2048/login?url=.

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Mulamba, Kashama. "Apologizing and complaining in Ciluba, French, and English : speech act performance by trilingual speakers in Zaire." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/774770.

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Most studies of pragmatic aspects of language learning have dealt mainly with two languages, a native language and a second or foreign language. None of these studies has investigated a multilingual situation where there is interaction among three different languages spoken by one person. Neither have they dealt with an African language as the first language.The present study was designed to discover the norms of the three languages under investigation and to see how people speaking a second and a foreign language, with different levels of fluency in each, can participate in the activity of the speech communities of the two languages without violating their socio-cultural norms, and what impact, if any, their knowledge of these languages has on each of the languages they speak.Data was elicited from monolingual English and French speakers and trilingual speakers native in Ciluba by written questionnaire, and from monolingual Ciluba speakers by oral interview. In addition, naturally occurring speech acts and TV dialogue were considered. It was found that for the speech acts of apologizing, complaining, and complimenting, Ciluba socio-cultural norms are different from those of English and French, which are similar to each other. In contrast to the socio-cultural norms of French and English, in Ciluba, social distance and relative power between the participants played an important role in deciding whether one of the three speech acts was to be performed or not. However, the results also revealed that, despite the difference in norms which exists between Ciluba and the other two languages, i.e., French and English, some subjects from the group of Ciluba monolingual speakers showed some similarities with the groups of French and English monolingual speakers in their responses to some items in the questionnaire. This deviation from the norms of their native Ciluba was hypothesized to be a result of their contact with the urban environment and its mixed culture.It was also discovered that the trilingual speakers (who were native in Ciluba) used in French and English pattern of address which is not used by native English and French speakers.
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Butler, Clayton Dale. "The role of context in the apology speech act : a socio-constructivist analysis of the interpretations of native English-speaking college students /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008292.

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Saberi, Kourosh. "Routine Politeness Formulae in Persian: A Socio-Lexical Analysis of Greetings, Leave-taking, Apologizing, Thanking and Requesting." Thesis, University of Canterbury. School of Social and Political Sciences, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/7887.

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Speakers of Persian, like speakers of other languages, utilise Routine Politeness Formulae (RPF) to negotiate central interpersonal interactions. RPF in Persian have not received any systematic description as to their forms, their functions, their typical conditions of use and their discourse structure rules. Bridging this gap, for the first time, RPF from five frequently-used speech acts – namely, greeting, leave-taking, apologizing, thanking and requesting – are documented in this thesis. Data were derived from Persian soap operas and from role-plays with native speakers, and were entered into a database for further analysis. The analysis is qualitative and the data are conceived of as phraseological units to be represented as dictionary entries. The study of the aforementioned speech acts and their related array of RPF reveals the dynamics of interpersonal polite behaviour among Persians, reflecting the following socio-cultural values prevalent in Iranian society: (i) its group-oriented nature, (ii) a tendency towards positive (solidarity) politeness, (iii) sensitivity to remaining in people’s debt, (iv) sensitivity to giving trouble to others, (v) a high premium on reciprocity in interpersonal communications, (vi) the importance of seniority in terms of age and social status, and (vii) differentiation between members of the ‘inner circle’ and the ‘outer circle’. This thesis also reveals the dominance of the strategy of self-lowering and other-elevating. Almost all RPF in Persian allow for the use of this pervasive strategy, which is also manifested by two further sub-strategies: (i) a propensity to exaggerate favours received from others, and (ii) giving precedence to others over oneself. Finally, it is suggested that Islamic teachings have significantly influenced the formation and use of certain RPF. The dictionary resulting from this work can serve as a resource for researchers in sociolinguistics and pragmatics, and for the teaching of Persian to non-Persian speakers.

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Lau, Yi. "A comparison of apology strategies in Chinese and English /." View the Table of Contents & Abstract, 2006. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B36845875.

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Lau, Yi, and 劉儀. "A comparison of apology strategies in Chinese and English." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2006. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45007615.

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Chalkley, Marie Leone. "Saying Sorry: Conflict Atrocity and Political Apology." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc11054/.

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This study proposes and tests a comprehensive theory detailing the motivations behind political apologies. A brief survey of the literature shows a field rich in case studies but lacking in rigorous scientific analysis. The theory presented proposes a three-level examination of political apology at the state, dyadic, and system levels and incorporates the effects of culture, conflict, and the nature of the international system into analysis. This study makes use of a new dataset recording the occurrence of political apologies for interstate conflict atrocities from 1900 to 2006. The results suggest that the existing literature, while rich, does not account for all the motivating factors behind apology. The results also confirm that political apology is a creation of the modern era and a result of the liberalization of the international system. In conclusion, paths for future research are suggested and the advent of a global "age of apology" is confirmed.

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GOMES, CAROLINA COSTA DE SOUZA. "I`M SORRY, BUT... THE APOLOGIZING RITUAL IN BRAZILIAN TELEVISION SERIES WITH APPLICABILITY TO PORTUGUESE AS A SECOND LANGUAGE FOR FOREIGNERS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2010. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16481@1.

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COORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
O presente trabalho tem por objetivo descrever a realização de pedidos de desculpas, em língua oral, em seriados televisivos brasileiros, de forma a auxiliar o ensino e aprendizagem do idioma como segunda língua para estrangeiros. Nosso corpus consta de 16 episódios dos programas A Grande Família, Os Aspones e Toma Lá Dá Cá da Rede Globo de Televisão. Com base em uma fundamentação teórica híbrida, que conta com contribuições da Pragmática, da Sociolinguística Interacional, do Interculturalismo e da Antropologia Social, descrevemos e analisamos as formulações dos atos expressivos de pedidos de desculpas encontrados no nosso corpus, e interpretamos as razões que levam o falante nativo do português do Brasil a escolher as estratégias que ajudam na realização dos referidos atos.
The objective of the present work is to describe the realization of the apologies, in oral Brazilian Portuguese in order to aid the teaching of this language as a second language to foreigners. Our corpus is extracted from 16 episodes of the TV series A Grande Família, Os Aspones and Toma Lá Dá Cá by Rede Globo de Televisão. Based on a hybrid theoretical basis, which counts on contributions from Pragmatics, Interactional Sociolinguistics, Intercultural Studies and Social Anthropology, we have described and analyzed the construction of the expressive acts of apologies found in our corpus as well as interpreted the reasons which lead the native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese to choose the strategies which help fulfill the acts previously mentioned.

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Lin, Chao Victor. "Speech acts in context : Chinese university students' use of apology and compliment strategies in English and Chinese." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2012. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/1333.

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Mak, Kit Ling Agatha. "Cross-cultural pragmatics : a study of Chinese and Western children's use of requests and apologies." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2007. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/852.

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Fan, Ching Man. "Wrongdoing admission : an explorative study of Hong Kong Chinese." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2001. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/300.

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Tham, Sheon Ming Simon. ""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." HKBU Institutional Repository, 1995. http://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_ra/97.

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Kong, Ivy Man Sze. "The use of apology strategies in public apologies: a comparison between Chinese and English." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2014. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/118.

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Public figures have offered more public apologies since the past two decades. However, very little research efforts have been made to study the use of apology strategies in public apologies. This study aims to find out how Chinese and English public figures use apology strategies to publicly apologize, and highlight the similarities and differences in their use of apology strategies. This study used a modified model that was based on Cohen & Olshtain (1981), Olshtain & Cohen (1983), and Blum-Kulka et al. (1989) and identified a total of 11 apology strategies. 8 Chinese and 8 English public apologies over infidelity were collected and analyzed using the model and the use of apology strategies was compiled. It was found that, in general, the Chinese subjects used apology strategies more often than the English subjects. The most frequently used and least frequently used strategies were the same for both groups of data, which were accepting the blame and expressing a lack of intent respectively. One of the significant differences was found in the preference of IFIDs where the Chinese data preferred an expression of apology while the English data preferred an expression of regret. It was also found that 3 of the Chinese apologies used the strategies expressing self-dificiency and offering an explanation or account together. Since the latter was found to be inappropriate in the case of apologizing over infidelity, the concurrent use of these 2 Strategies might be a unique feature of Chinese public apology. Since this study is a pioneering attempt to study the use of apology strategies in public apologies, further research efforts are much encouraged. It is hoped that this study could serves as a reference for further studies on apology strategies in public apology.

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Sombhane, Mihloti Penelope. "The speech act of apology in Xitsonga educational contexts /." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1803.

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Burns, Judith Poitras. "The Rhetoric of Technological Flaws: Intel's Pentium Processor." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1996. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278276/.

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This study analyzes the apologies presented by Intel Corporation as a response to the Pentium™ microprocessor controversy. Dr. Andrew Grove's November 27,1994, Internet posting to the comp.sys.intel usegroup and Intel's December 20,1994, press release are analyzed using the methods of genre criticism. Further, a situational analysis is presented of the exigence and the audience. The exigence is represented by the relationship of society to technology while the audience is Internet users. This analysis attempts to demonstrate how situational factors constrain discourse related to technological flaws.

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Simonds, Cheri J. (Cheri Jo). "A Rhetorical Analysis of Jimmy Swaggart's 1988-89 Program for Defense." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc501213/.

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This study seeks to determine the extent to which Jimmy Swaggart's program for defense in 1988 complies with the expectations of the apologia genre. Three discourse media are examined for evidence of denial, bolstering, differentiation, and transcendence. Swaggart's defense is classified as "justificative" in that it seeks approval of actions. Swaggart's motivating drive force is defined as the need to assure the financial success of his ministry. Swaggart's defense is then compared with the past apologies of Nixon, Truman, and Kennedy. It was determined that certain apologies cannot serve as a reference standard if the contextual factors are not similar. There are some rhetorical resources available to religious figures that are not available to politicians.

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Anderson, Lindsey B. "Big Trouble for the Big Three: An Audience Perspective of the Appropriateness and Effectiveness of the Big Three Automakers’ Image Repair Strategies." Thesis, Connect to resource online, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2184.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Indiana University, 2010.
Title from screen (viewed on July 18, 2010). Department of Communication Studies, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). Advisor(s): John Parrish-Sprowl, Kristina Horn Sheeler, Ronald Sandwina. Includes vitae. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 133-138).

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Shih, Ching-Yi. "A study of the interlanguage of apology by Taiwanese English-Language learners." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2005. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2793.

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This thesis presents a study of the interlanguage of the speech act of apology by Taiwanese learners of English. It compares the way Taiwanese learners apoologize in English and how they apologize in Mandarin Chinese, as well as how native speakers of American English apologize.

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Lasaleta, Jannine. "Shame, guilt, and forgiveness : the relationship between self-conscious emotions and the propensity to forgive /." 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR32005.

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Thesis (M.A.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Psychology.
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Sinha, Ruchi. "Road to forgiveness the influence of individual differences, apology and perspective taking /." Diss., 2008.

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Gubin, Alexandra. "You're sorry, but do you really care? :: apologies, power and interpersonal relationships." 2000. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/2351.

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St, John Heather Michelle Arpan Laura. "Victim of circumstance? stealing thunder and attribution theory /." 2004. http://etd.lib.fsu.edu/theses/available/etd-07012004-123103.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Florida State University, 2004.
Advisor: Dr. Laura Arpan, Florida State University, College of Communication. Title and description from dissertation home page (viewed Sept. 22, 2004). Includes bibliographical references.

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Rothmann, Jan-Ben. "Outo-etnografie, apologie en belydenis in outobiografieë van Elsa Joubert, André P. Brink en Koos Kombuis." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21008.

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’n Merkbare opbloei in die publikasie van literêre niefiksietekste wêreldwyd het gelei tot die klassifikasie van sodanige tekste as ’n vierde genre. Die politieke oorgang in Suid-Afrika in 1994 het gelei tot ’n soortgelyke toename in outobiografiese tekste waarin kommentaar gelewer word op die Suid-Afrikaanse politieke werklikheid deur die vertel van sowel persoonlike as kollektiewe geskiedenisse. Daymond en Visagie (2012) identifiseer outo-etnografie, apologie en belydenis as kenmerke van die Suid-Afrikaanse outobiografie ná 1994. In hierdie navorsingsverslag word enkele resente skrywersoutobiografieë van onderskeidelik Elsa Joubert (’n Wonderlike geweld: jeugherinneringe (2005); Reisiger (2009)), André P. Brink (’n Vurk in die pad (2009)) en Koos Kombuis (Seks & drugs & boeremusiek: die memoirs van ‘n volksverraaier (2000); Die tyd van die Kombi’s: ‘n persoonlike blik op die Afrikaanse rock-rebellie (2009)) gemeet aan die kriteria wat deur Daymond en Visagie voorgestel word. Die beskrywing en interpretasie van verskeie outo-etnografiese merkers lei daartoe dat hierdie outobiografieë as ’n vorm van kulturele introspeksie beskou kan word.
A marked proliferation in the publication of literary nonfiction globally led to the classification of such texts as a fourth genre. The political transition in South Africa in 1994 caused a similar increase in autobiographical texts in which commentary is offered on the South African political reality through the telling of both personal and collective histories. Daymond and Visagie (2012) identify autoethnography, apologia and confession as characteristics of post-1994 South African autobiographies. In this research report some contemporary writers’ autobiographies, respectively those of Elsa Joubert (’n Wonderlike geweld: jeugherinneringe (2005); Reisiger (2009)), André P. Brink (’n Vurkin die pad (2009)) and Koos Kombuis (Seks & drugs & boeremusiek: die memoirs van ‘n volksverraaier (2000); Die tyd van die Kombi’s: ‘n persoonlike blik op die Afrikaanse rock-rebellie (2009)) are evaluated using the criteria proposed by Daymond and Visagie. The description and interpretation of various autoethnographical markers confirm that these autobiographies can be considered a form of cultural introspection.
Afrikaans and Theory of Literature
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