Publications

Publication details [#44058]

Félix-Brasdefer, J. César. 2006. Linguistic politeness in Mexico: Refusal strategies among male speakers of Mexican Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (12) : 2158–2187.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

context | face maintenance | politeness | refusing

Language as a subject

Spanish, Mexican

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper examines three aspects of politeness in male native Mexican Spanish speakers' refusal interactions in formal and informal contexts: (1) formality degree; (2) systems of politeness and employed strategy (3) and politeness and face maintenance in Mexico.