Mitigation

Claudia Caffi

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This fourth volume in the Studies in Pragmatics (SIP) series is a fittingly solid, well-illustrated and theoretical account of Mitigation (as a form of Politeness). The main goal of this book is to present a new integrated pragmatic approach to communication. The approach has been called pragmatics of identity. It's major feature is that it aims at integrating pragmatic views (research on politeness, face-work, etc.) with insights from different research fields into an extended framework where psychological aspects of communication in context also can be taken into account.

Book Details

Publisher: Brill
Publish Date: Jan 1st, 2007
Pages: 360
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 9.36in - 6.22in - 0.81in - 1.29lb
EAN: 9780080443348
Categories: • Linguistics - Semantics

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"Written by one of the most prominent Italian experts in pragmatics, this volume offers an excellent presentation of the pragmatic concept of mitigation (or ???downgrading???) within the interdisciplinary framework of linguistic pragmatics and psycholinguistics. Referring to a case study of doctor-patient dialogues, Claudia Caffi emphasizes the need for an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of mitigation."
--Gunver Skytte, University of Copenhagen