Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse: Applications and implications
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Main Author: Gómez González, Ma. de los Ángeles, (María de los Ángeles) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: John Benjamins Publishing Company 2014
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:1306705886
9027270201
9781306705882
9789027270207

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