Mitigation / Claudia Caffi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Caffi, Claudia, author.

Series:

Studies in Pragmatics ; 4.

Studies in Pragmatics ; 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Honorific.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Pragmatics.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Pragmatics: subject and subjectivity

Chapter 2. Mitigation: the background

Chapter 3. Pragmatics of mitigation: bushes, hedges, shields

Chapter 4. Mitigation and emotive communication: steps toward a psychostylistic approach

Chapter 5. Doctor-patient dialogue: a case-study

Chapter 6. Grammar of mitigation in doctor-patient dialogue

Conclusions

Bibliography

Appendices

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786610728695

9781280728693

1280728698

9780080466224

0080466222

OCLC:

441769269

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9780080466224 DOI