Online apologies in Japanese

Online Apologies in Japanese provides a comprehensive account of how Japanese 'apology' expressions work in a data set collected from the Q&A website Yahoo! Chiebukuro. The focus is on three variables: their pragmatic functions, the discursive strategies they co-occur with, and the events and behaviours that warrant them.
Theoretically, this book introduces a combination of established and emerging approaches in pragmatics. Methodologically, it brings together corpus linguistics and discourse analysis for the study of Japanese.