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Publication details [#11866]

Turnbull, Ronald and Karen L. Saxton. 1997. Modal Expressions as Facework in Refusals to Comply with Requests: I Think I Should Say 'No' Right Now. Journal of Pragmatics 27 (2) : 145–181. 37 pp.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
face maintenance | modality | pragmatics | refusing | repair | request | social psychology
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

A study of compliance refusals indicates that speakers use modality to maintain face, thereby demonstrating the relevance of social psychological pragmatics (i.e. the psychological analysis of linguistic resources in interpersonal behavior).