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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Caffi, Claudia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; London : Elsevier, 2007.
Colección:Studies in pragmatics ; 4.
Temas:
Sociolinguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Honorific.
Pragmatics.
Politeness (Linguistics)
Sociolinguistique.
Formules de politesse.
Pragmatique.
sociolinguistics.
pragmatics.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Honorific
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Mitigation
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Foreword
  • Presentation of the corpus
  • Structure of the book
  • Transcription conventions
  • List of abbreviations
  • List of metalinguistic abbreviations
  • Glossary
  • Chapter 1 Pragmatics: Subject and Subjectivity
  • 1.0. Foreword
  • 1.1. Towards a psychostylistics of interaction
  • 1.2. A 'loaded' discipline
  • 1.3. The subjectivity of language
  • 1.3.1. The instance d'énonciation (Benveniste, 1966)
  • 1.3.2. The deictic origin (Bühler, 1934)
  • 1.3.3. The egocentric child (Piaget, 1989 [1926])
  • 1.4. A complex subjectivity
  • 1.5. Stylistic markers
  • 1.6. Semiotic markers
  • 1.7. The function of identity maintenance and 'speech markers' (Giles et al., 1979)
  • 1.8. Contextualizations cues (Gumperz, 1982a)
  • 1.9. Mitigation: first definitions
  • 1.10. Bridging the gap between linguistic pragmatics and self-psychology
  • Chapter 2 Mitigation: The Background
  • 2.0. Introduction
  • 2.0.1. Structure of the chapter
  • 2.0.2. Scopes of mitigating devices
  • 2.1. Ideas of mitigation
  • 2.1.1. Mitigation in different research areas: the empirical turn
  • 2.1.2. Hedges in Brown and Levinson (1987)
  • 2.1.3. Mitigation as vagueness: hedges
  • 2.1.4. Mitigation as indirectedness (Fraser, 1975; Leech, 1983; Holmes, 1984)
  • 2.1.5. Mitigation as de-focalization of deictic origin
  • 2.1.6. Mitigation as removal of unwelcome perlocutionary effects (Fraser, 1980)
  • 2.1.7. Prince, Frader, and Bosk (1982)
  • 2.1.8. The notion of weakening (Abschwächung)
  • 2.2. Intensity
  • 2.2.1. Intensity according to Bally (1970 [1909])
  • 2.2.2. Intensity according to Strawson (1964)
  • 2.3. Towards an extended notion of mitigation
  • 2.3.1. Some conceptual distinctions
  • 2.3.2. The multidisciplinary relevance of mitigation
  • 2.4. Conclusions
  • Chapter 3 Pragmatics of Mitigation: Bushes, Hedges and Shields
  • 3.0. Introduction
  • 3.1. Mitigation as a bridging category
  • 3.2. Types of mitigating devices (Habermas, 1987 [1981])
  • 3.3. The functioning of mitigation
  • 3.3.1. Bushes
  • 3.3.2. Hedges
  • 3.3.3. Combination of bushes and hedges
  • 3.3.4. Shields
  • 3.4. Other strategies of mitigation: quotational shields and topical shields
  • 3.5. Conclusions
  • Chapter 4 Mitigation and Emotive Communication: Steps Toward a Psychostylistic Approach
  • 4.0. Introduction
  • 4.1. Style as a psycholinguistic issue: the role of emotion
  • 4.1.1. Mitigation as an empathic strategy: attunement (Stern, 1985)
  • 4.1.2. The other edge of the sword: mitigation as an anti-empathic strategy
  • 4.2. On the conceptualization of emotion in linguistic theories
  • 4.3. A folk psychological category: involvement
  • 4.4. An approach to emotive c.

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