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Linguistic Mitigation in English and Spanish - How Speakers Attenuate Expressions (Paperback)
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Linguistic Mitigation in English and Spanish - How Speakers Attenuate Expressions (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
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This volume offers a comprehensive examination of mitigation in
speech in English and Spanish, exploring how it is defined and
theorized and the various linguistic features employed to soften or
downgrade the impact of a particular message across a range of
settings. Building on the body of work done on mitigation in
English, the book begins by discussing how it has been
conceptualized in the literature, drawing on politeness theory
among other perspectives from pragmatics, and highlighting
increasing research on these topics in native and bilingual Spanish
speakers and learners of Spanish. The volume explores examples from
a variety of discursive contexts, including institutions, courts,
and classrooms, to unpack mitigation as it occurs in spontaneous
speech through different lenses, looking both at the actual units
of discourse but also taking a broader view by examining
differences across dialects as well. The book also looks at the
ways in which conclusions drawn from this research might be applied
pedagogically in language learning classrooms. This volume will
serve as a jumping-off point for broader discussion in the field of
mitigation and will be of particular interest to graduate students
and researchers in pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and discourse
analysis, in addition to learners and pre-service teachers of
Spanish.
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