Mitigation / / Claudia Caffi.
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...
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| Superior document: | Studies in pragmatics, 4 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in pragmatics ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (359 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of 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.