Meet Professor and Author Edwin Battistella
Edwin L. Battistella teaches linguistics and writing at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon. He is the author of six books and over fifty articles. Sorry About That: The Language of Public Apology (Oxford University Press, 2014) analyzes the public apologies of presidents, politicians, entertainers, and businessmen, situating the apology within American popular culture and showing how language creates sincere or insincere apologies, why we choose to apologize or don’t, and how our efforts to say we are sorry succeed or fail.
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Thursday Mar 30, 2017
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM PDT
Thursday, March 30th 1 pm - 3 pm
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Think Brain Candy Books 678 S. Main Street Lebanon, OR
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