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Apology comes to English from the Greek roots of apo- (“away from, off”) and logia (from logos, meaning “speech”). The word's earliest meaning in English was “something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others to be wrong or of what may be liable to disapprobation.”
The earliest known use of the noun apology is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for apology is from 1533, in the writing of More.
Feb 6, 2016 · By the early 1600s, the noun had yielded the verb apologize and over time, the meaning of apology and apologize shifted further to indicate a statement of regret rather than a defense of one’s actions.
The meaning drifted over time. By the late 16th century the meaning of "speaking in justification" had drifted to "speaking in regret", and by the 18th century this was the primary meaning. Source. This is actually rather common in languages--see here.
- Corpus-Based Speech Act Analysis
- Corpus Analysis Based on IFIDs
- Corpus Analysis Based on Metapragmatic Expressions
Speech acts cannot be searched for directly. They are entities that have functional definitions which cannot be transformed in any straightforward way into search strings. In earlier work, Irma Taavitsainen and I have proposed three different solutions to this problem (Jucker and Taavitsainen 2013: ch. 6, 2014: 258–261). All of them have their shor...
In a first step the distribution of the most common illocutionary force indicating devices was established across the four half centuries of the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA). However, the raw frequencies of these expressions do not give an accurate indication of the frequency of apologies because many of these expressions have homon...
A second way of locating specific speech acts in a corpus, as pointed out above, consists in the retrieval of metapragmatic expressions. This method has also been called analysis of metalanguage (see Jaworski et al. 2004; Culpeper 2009; Busse and Hübler 2012), that is to say the search does not aim directly at the speech act in question but at pass...
- Andreas H. Jucker
- ahjucker@es.uzh.ch
- 2018
Apr 18, 2001 · Linguist GEOFF NUNBERG examines the origins of the word "apology. April 18, 200112:00 AM ET.
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if you say that you make no apology/apologies for something, you mean that you do not feel that you have said or done anything wrong. Definition of apology noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
