Linguistic Mitigation in English and Spanish: How Speakers Attenuate Expressions

by Nydia Flores-Ferran

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 103223850X
• ISBN13: 9781032238500
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"