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Publication details [#53090]

Flores-Ferrán, Nydia. 2010. An examination of mitigation strategies used in Spanish psychotherapeutic discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (7) : 1964–1981.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse strategy | mitigation | motivation | politeness | psychotherapy

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores the mitigation strategies (politeness etc) and indirect speech acts deployed by therapists and patients in Spanish (motivational) psychotherapeutic discourse.