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Publication details [#56287]

Czerwionka, Lori. 2012. Mitigation: The combined effects of imposition and certitude. Journal of Pragmatics 44 (10) : 1163–1182.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

certainty | dialogue | imposition | mitigation | social relationship

Language as a subject

Spanish, Mexican

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores to what level linguistic mitigation is prompted by levels of imposition and speaker certitude in dialogic interactions (role play scenarios) in Mexican Spanish. Uncertainty is shown to entail the highest mitigation level.