The functional perspective on language and discourse: applications and implications

This article presents the results of a study carried out with Spanish Universitystudents on their use of strategies of (in)directness when expressing complaints,disapprovals and disagreements in English and Spanish. We adopt a role-playeliciting procedure for the collection of what a speaker thinks...

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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam [u.a.] Benjamins 2014
Schriftenreihe:Pragmatics & beyond New series ; 247
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Zusammenfassung:This article presents the results of a study carried out with Spanish Universitystudents on their use of strategies of (in)directness when expressing complaints,disapprovals and disagreements in English and Spanish. We adopt a role-playeliciting procedure for the collection of what a speaker thinks and what s/heactually says in a given situation. Our results show a tendency to mitigate theactual words uttered with regard to the thought processes in both languages.However, while in English students show a preference for conventional indirectness,in Spanish there is a greater variation in the st
Beschreibung:VIII, 292 S. graph. Darst.
ISBN:9789027256522

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