Linguistic Mitigation in English and Spanish: How Speakers Attenuate Expressions
(Part of the Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics Series)
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This volume offers a comprehensive examination of mitigation in speech in English and Spanish, exploring how it is defined and theorized and the various linguistic features employed to soften or downgrade the impact of a particular message across a range of settings. Building on the body of work done on mitigation in English, the book begins by discussing how it has been conceptualized in the literature, drawing on politeness theory among other...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:103223850X
ISBN13:9781032238500
Release Date:December 2021
Publisher:Routledge
Length:256 Pages
Weight:0.76 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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