Apology legislation: the time has come.

Full disclosure and apology--an idea whose time has come.

Apology in medical practice: an emerging clinical skill.

THE IDEA THAT PHYSICIANS SHOULD MAKE FULL DISclosure of medical errors to their patients has grown in importance since the late 1980s and early 1990s. This movement gained momentum following the 1999 Institute of Medicine report, To Err Is Human, an indepth study of the extent of medical errors, and the 2001 Safety Standards of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations o...

Linguistic Construction of a Winning Apology

The study analyzes the apology delivered by the then-democratic Presidential contender in 2007, Senator Barack H. Obama, to the Indian-American community. This apology succeeded in convincing American citizens of Obama’s goodwill and clean political standards, which eventually led him to surpass his chief opponent, Senator Hillary R. Clinton and become the President of the United States. The st...

Apology as Crisis Communication Strategy-Importance of Cultural Context

One of the frequently used strategies in crisis management, i.e. crisis communication used by organizations affected by crisis is public apology for the crisis. Usually it is lightly considered as a strategy which automatically gives results and reduces the effects of crisis, which is far from true. The effectiveness of public apology depends on an entire series of factors such as the nature of...

The Penitent and the Penitentiary: Questions Regarding Apologies in Criminal Law

In early 2008 I published I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies.1 Discussing numerous apologies from ancient and recent history, I Was Wrong argues that we suffer from considerable confusion about the moral meanings and social functions of these complex interactions. rather than asking whether a speech act “is or is not” an apology, I offer a nuanced theory of apologetic meaning and argue that...