Apology asMetanoicPerformance: Punitive Rhetoric and Public Speech

Racist Violations and Racializing Apologia in a Post-Racism Era

“…His apologia demonstrates instances of self-reflexivity and critique (e.g., he acknowledges his imperfections), recognizes the power and effects of language (e.g., "nothing good can come from repeating hateful words" or "it is my duty as a human being to choose my words carefully"), and, in so doing, resists white logics by critiquing the strategy of denial of intent, a strategy visible across all violations examined. 15 We assert, contrary to Ellwanger's (2012) notion that "public apologies" are at heart about (white) humiliation, that racializing apologia, understood through a process orientation, indicates possibilities for ideological exploration and movement. Such ideological movement is identified across our sample of violators when we note that their racializing apologia are inherently about reframing seemingly transparent events such as public use of racial slurs through a lens of white logics.…”

“…While both Arrington (2002) and Oles (2010) focus on rhetors of color and identify rhetorical or imagerepair strategies in each instance, both scholars fail to account for how race may influence strategies enacted. In contrast, work by Gordon and Crenshaw (2003) and Ellwanger (2012) reveal attention to whiteness, but with differing treatment.…”

“…Acknowledged then are the forces (i.e., market, political, or social) and stakeholders (i.e., political, corporations, and fans) invested, literally and figuratively, in the violator offering a racializing apologia. On this note, "demands" for apologia are less about reconciling the offender to an ideology of tolerance and multiculturalism (Ellwanger, 2012) and reveal more about hidden political, economic, and social investments in racial hierarchies and whiteness. Furthermore, understood is that within a racializing apologia, a defense of oneself is likely to occur and a racializing apologia may reflect a distinct racial frame that aids or detracts from the reparative work needed to patch together the social fabric based on the racist violation.…”

“…Scholars use phrases such as "events" or "judgments" (Towner, 2010a), "rhetorical situation" (Arrington, 2002), and "transgressions," "offense," or "episodes" (Ellwanger, 2012) when referring to what calls forth an apologia or, apology.…”

Illocutionary Acts in Religious Discourse: The Pragmatics of Nouman Ali Khan’s Speeches

“…Studies on speeches or speech act analysis have been long regarded as one of the most exciting topics on language, literature/novel and linguistics, especially as an interdisciplinary body of knowledge (Batmang, 2018) (Flanagan, 2013;Mills, 2014). Some experts analysed the pragmatic, social, political, discourse, and critical impact of speeches and its rhetoric (Boromisza-Habashi, 2012;Buysse, 2012;Ellwanger, 2012;Vasaly, 2013), whereas some others preferred to explore the literature, semantic, gestures and its traditional meaning of speech (Bergmann et al, 2011;Nur, 2016;Tur & De Mori, 2011) or the combination of both (Egorova et al, 2013;Fetzer & Bull, 2012;Foucart et al, 2015).…”