Format:
VIII, 292 S.
,
graph. Darst.
ISBN:
9789027256522
Series Statement:
Pragmatics & beyond : New series 247
Content:
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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe ISBN 978-90-272-7020-7
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Funktionalismus
;
Pragmatik
;
Diskursanalyse
;
Korpus
;
Aufsatzsammlung
