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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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John Benjamins Publishing Company,
2014.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
Volume 247. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027270207 9027270201 1306705886 9781306705882 9789027256522 9027256527 |