rula fahmi bataineh, ruba fahmi bataineh
"This study investigates the apology strategies used by the speakers of American English and Jordanian Arabic...there were more differences between Jordanian male and female resondents than between American male and female respondents, which may be attributed to the fact that there is a greater similarity between how boys and girls are raised in the US than between how they are raised in Jordan."
apologies
survey taken by undergraduates
"Westerners concentrate more on culpability and Easterners on consequences."
"only Jordanians used strategies such as praising God for what happened, attacking the victim, minimizing the degree of offense, and interjection."
Strategies differed, but not that much.
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