Apologies can easily go awry if they’re not made in a certain way.
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Even incomplete or insincere apologies have restorative value.
Cuomo used language that people forced to apologize often deploy to avoid taking responsibility and show genuine contrition. An expert on public apologies suggests three don'ts and a do.
The Canadian prime minister is the latest public figure struggling to apologize for past misbehavior. A language scholar explains how to do it right.
As a new app aims to stop us apologising so much, why saying sorry is a glue that binds us all together.
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Associate Professor of English Language Studies, The Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, Middlebury
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