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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1. Verfasser: Gómez González, Ma. de los Ángeles (María de los Ángeles)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Schriftenreihe:Pragmatics & beyond ; Volume 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:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.
ISBN:9789027270207
9027270201
1306705886
9781306705882
9789027256522
9027256527