Apologizing for the Past for a Better Future: Collective Apologies in the United States, Australia, and Canada

Edwards, Jason

doi:10.1080/10417940902802605

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“…In theory, truth commissions promise to repair damage of past abuses through rhetorical strategies that change the dominant cultural narrative to an admission of guilt and wrong doing (Edwards, 2010). Yet, research on the impact of truth commissions is mixed.…”

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Historical trauma as public narrative: A conceptual review of how history impacts present-day health

Mohatt

Thompson

Thai

et al. 2014

Social Science & Medicine

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Theories of historical trauma increasingly appear in the literature on individual and community health, especially in relation to racial and ethnic minority populations and groups that experience significant health disparities. As a consequence of this rapid growth, the literature on historical trauma comprises disparate terminology and research approaches. This critical review integrates this literature in order to specify theoretical mechanisms that explain how historical trauma influences the health of individuals and communities. We argue that historical trauma functions as a public narrative for particular groups or communities that connects present-day experiences and circumstances to the trauma so as to influence health. Treating historical trauma as a public narrative shifts the research discourse away from an exclusive search for past causal variables that influence health to identifying how present-day experiences, their corresponding narratives, and their health impacts are connected to public narratives of historical trauma for a particular group or community. We discuss how the connection between historical trauma and present-day experiences, related narratives, and health impacts may function as a source of present-day distress as well as resilience.

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Historical trauma as public narrative: A conceptual review of how history impacts present-day health

Mohatt

Thompson

Thai

et al. 2014

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Basically, apologies, in all cultures, are admissions of wrongdoings require forgiveness (Al-Zumor, 2011;Anna, 1983Anna, , 1995Augoustinos et al, 2011;Bataineh & Bataineh, 2008, 2006Dalmau & Gotor, 2007;Edwards, 2010;Koutsantoni, 2007;Nureddeen, 2008) and re-establishing trust in negotiations and dispute resolution (Maddux et al, 2011, p. 218). In the theory of speech acts, apologies belong to the class of behaviorist speech acts in Austin's classification and as an expressive speech act in Seale's classification.…”

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Students’ apologizing in Arabic and English: An interlanguage pragmatic case study at an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia

Al-Rawafi

Sudana

Lukmana

et al. 2021

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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It is hard to select and produce appropriate semantic formulas of apologizing for paying off violation of social norms to restore harmony. It seems that it is even harder to realize such processes of selection and production in a non-native language. The study is of three folds; namely, it examines the realization of the apology strategies by students of a senior Boarding School in Arabic and English as a non-native language, the effects on the contextual factors (external vs. internal) on the students’ apologizing, and the pragmatic transfer. The participants were 101 male and 101 female students, recruited to fill in a Discourse Completion Task (DCT), which consisted of eight situations about the flouting of the politeness rules in the context of the Islamic boarding school, by drawing upon the five semantic formulas of apologizing from Blum-Kulka and Olshtain (1983) of Cross-Cultural Study of Speech Act Realization Patterns (CCSARP) for analyzing the data. The findings show that the students used identical semantic formulas in both languages. They prefer to use the “expression of regret” and “promise for forbearance” strategies. The findings also reveal that the internal and external factors affected the students’ selection and production of the apology strategies in both languages. In addition, the students’ pragmatic transfer occurred in linguistic areas, namely overgeneralization, inappropriateness, grammatical contrast, and conceptual transfer from L1 to L2, which are categorized into two types, namely, micro-negative transfer and macro-negative transfer. To conclude, these results indicate the students’ on-record-negative politeness attitudes towards the offended parties, which are determined by the contextual factors and the students’ lack of grammatical competence.

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“…Conversely, the out‐group is subjected to the process of “out‐casting” and is represented as “all that is bad and aberrant” (Lazar & Lazar, , p. 239). Despite the potential for collective apologies to repair intergroup relations that have been damaged by historical misdoings (Edwards, ), neither speech acknowledges negative in‐group actions or any positive out‐group actions. This could plausibly feed into the intergroup suspicions that have hitherto hindered the peace process.…”

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“…Conversely, the out-group is subjected to the process of "out-casting" and is represented as "all that is bad and aberrant" (Lazar & Lazar, 2004, p. 239). Despite the potential for collective apologies to repair intergroup relations that have been damaged by historical misdoings (Edwards, 2010), neither speech acknowledges negative in-group…”

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Threat, Victimhood, and Peace: Debating the 2011 Palestinian UN State Membership Bid

Jaspal

Coyle²

2014

Digest Mid East Studies

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The Israeli–Palestinian conflict has been described as one of the most intractable in the world. This article first provides an overview of the sociopolitical events that led up to the Palestinian UN state membership bid in September 2011, and second, as a case study, it examines how the Israeli–Palestinian conflict was constructed in speeches delivered by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the state membership bid to the UN General Assembly in September 2011. Despite their opposing agendas, there are some significant discursive similarities in the two speeches. The most salient shared discourses concern that of in‐group victimhood on the one hand, and that of out‐group threat on the other. It is argued that the speeches dispel support for intergroup reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians by aggravating grievances on both sides and accentuating intergroup suspicion. This article highlights the importance of examining political speeches in order to better understand the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.

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Apologizing for the Past for a Better Future: Collective Apologies in the United States, Australia, and Canada

Cited by 42 publications

References 29 publications

Historical trauma as public narrative: A conceptual review of how history impacts present-day health

Historical trauma as public narrative: A conceptual review of how history impacts present-day health

Students’ apologizing in Arabic and English: An interlanguage pragmatic case study at an Islamic boarding school in Indonesia

Threat, Victimhood, and Peace: Debating the 2011 Palestinian UN State Membership Bid

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