Linguistic politeness in Britain and Uruguay : a contrastive study of requests and apologies /
The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
2000.
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Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser. 83. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in both cultures. The data are elicited from a non-prescriptive open role-play yielding requests and apologies. The analysis of the speech acts is based on an adaptation of the categorical scheme developed by Blum-Kulka et al. (1989). The results show that speakers of English and Spanish differ in their. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvii, 225 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-222) and index. |
ISBN: | 0585462542 9780585462547 9781588110152 158811015X 9789027251022 9027251029 9789027298935 9027298939 1282254723 9781282254725 9786612254727 6612254726 |