Publications

Publication details [#57541]

Stewart, Miranda. 2013. ‘Denuncio pero lo lamento …’: Attitudinal hedges and the pragmatics of the explicitly performative verb in Spanish. Multilingua 32 (1) : 33–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

face maintenance | hedge | language and culture | performative verb | politeness

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

It will be argued that the seeming clarity of Spanish performative verb hedges may conceal a deeper contradiction and supply speakers a strategic tool for face negotiation.