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    1. adminATdiplomacy.edu 28 Oct 2021
      Farage & Van Rompuy

      Causing offence by apologising for any offence caused! --- You are right, Desirée, these expressions are attempts to pre-empt any perceived loss of face. However, as you say, they always occur in a context where they DO risk threatening face. As a result, by a process referred to as the 'conventionalisation of implicature (sounds dreadful!), just saying one of these expressions already threatens face!

      Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu

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