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Fraser, Bruce. 1980. Conversational mitigation. Journal of Pragmatics 4 (4) : 341–350.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational strategy | illocution | mitigation

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Annotation

A definition of mitigation is given. Two types are distinguished: self-serving and altruistic; and a variety of strategies used by speakers to indicate their intent to mitigate the force of an utterance are presented.