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This document discusses the semantics and pragmatics of thanks and apologies in English discourse. It examines thanks and apologies as speech acts that are structured elements of discourse. Thanks and apologies serve specific communicative functions and have conventional lexical forms. The document analyzes the grammatical, lexical, and functional characteristics of thanks and apologies. It explores how the values and norms of a speech community influence whether thanks and apologies are considered related

Author

Kevin John Barrun

Language

EN