Functional Perspective on Language and Discourse : Applications and implications.

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Author / Creator:	Gómez González, Ma. de los Ángeles (María de los Ángeles)
Imprint:	John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	Pragmatics & Beyond New Series ; Volume 247 Pragmatics & beyond ; Volume 247.
Subject:	Discourse analysis. Pragmatics. Functionalism (Linguistics) Discourse analysis. Functionalism (Linguistics) Pragmatics. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11229078

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ISBN:	9789027270207 9027270201 1306705886 9781306705882 9789027256522 9027256527
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	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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