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Abdel Salam El-Dakhs, Dina, Jawaher Nasser Al-Haqbani, Manal A. Althaqafi and Shorouq Al-Fouzan. 2019. How do Saudis complain? A dialogue-analytic analysis of the Najdi dialect. Language and Dialogue 9 (2) : 264–293.
Parry, Ruth and Wendy Archer. 2019. Blame attributions and mitigated confessions: The discursive construction of guilty admissions in celebrity TV confessionals. Discourse & Communication 13 (6) : 591–611.
Bardovi-Harlig, Kathleen. 2019. Invitations as request-for-service mitigators in academic discourse. Journal of Pragmatics 139 : 64–78.
Pablos-Ortega, Carlos de. 2019. “Would it be fair to say that you actively sought out material?” Mitigation and aggravation in police investigative interviews. Pragmatics and Society 10 (1) : 49–71.
Drew, Paul, Yaxin Wu and Guodong Yu. 2019. Couples bickering: Disaffiliation and discord in Chinese conversation. Discourse Studies 21 (4) : 458–480.
Zhang, Grace. 2019. The pragmatic use of ‘sort of’ in TV forums. A Chinese perspective. Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 29 (1) : 62–85.
Giora, Rachel, Ofer Fein, Inbal Jaffe and Israela Becker. 2018. Strongly attenuating highly positive concepts. The case of default sarcastic interpretations. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 16 (1) : 19–47.
Unuabonah, Foluke Olayinka and Rotimi Olanrele Oladipupo. 2018. “You're not staying in Island sha o”: O, sha and abi as pragmatic markers in Nigerian English. Journal of Pragmatics 135 : 8–23.
Osborne, Dana. 2018. “Ay, nosebleed!”: Negotiating the place of English in contemporary Philippine linguistic life. Language & Communication 58 : 118–133.
Cock, Barbara De and Andrea Pizarro Pedraza. 2018. Taboo effects at the syntactic level. Reducing agentivity as a euphemistic strategy. Pragmatics 28 (1) : 113–138.
Ponterotto, Diane. 2018. Hedging in political interviewing. When Obama meets the press. Pragmatics and Society 9 (2) : 175–207.
Qian, Yubin. 2018. A contrastive study on mitigation of criticism in English and Chinese book reviews. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada 31 (1) : 408–430.
Nelson, Marie and Sofie Henricson. 2017. Giving and receiving advice in higher education. Comparing Sweden-Swedish and Finland-Swedish supervision meetings. Journal of Pragmatics 109 : 105–120.
Kent, Alyssa Irene, Sherri Jean Katz and Sahara Byrne. 2017. Mitigating the Perception of Threat to Freedom through Abstraction and Distance. Communication Research 44 (7) : 1046–1069.
Alvarez, Pilar, Marta Soler, Beatriz Villarejo and Ana Llopis. 2016. (Im)Politeness and interactions in Dialogic Literary Gatherings. Journal of Pragmatics 94 : 1–11.
Zhang, Grace. 2016. Elastic language in TV discussion discourse. A case study of ba in Chinese. International Journal of Chinese Linguistics 3 (2) : 245–269.
Alonso-Almeida, Francisco. 2015. On the mitigating function of modality and evidentiality. Evidence from English and Spanish medical research papers. Intercultural Pragmatics 12 (1) : 33–57.
Chefneux, Gabriela. 2015. Humour at work. Language and Dialogue 5 (3) : 381–407.
Flores-Ferrán, Nydia and Kelly Lovejoy. 2015. An examination of mitigating devices in the argument interactions of L2 Spanish learners. Journal of Pragmatics 76 : 67–86.
Chan, Angela, Wei Zhang, Olga Zayts, Mary Hoi Yin Tang and Wai Keung Tam. 2015. Directive-giving and grammatical forms. Mitigation devices in a medical laboratory setting. Chinese Language and Discourse 6 (2) : 133–161.
Tang, Chihsia. 2015. The influence of the addressers’ and the addressees’ gender identities on the addressers’ linguistic politeness behavior. Some evidence from criticisms in Taiwanese media discourse. Pragmatics 25 (3) : 477–499.
Attenborough, Frederick Thomas. 2014. Rape is rape (except when it’s not): The media, recontextualisation and violence against women. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 2 (2) : 183–203.
Zuczkowski, Andrzej, Ilaria Riccioni and Ramona Bongelli. 2014. Mitigation and epistemic positions in troubles talk: The giving advice activity in close interpersonal relationships. Some examples from Italy. Language & Communication 39 : 51–72.
Devís Herraiz, Empar and Francisco José Cantero Serena. 2014. The intonation of mitigating politeness in Catalan. Journal of Politeness Research 10 (1) : 127–149.
Czerwionka, Lori. 2014. Participant perspectives on mitigated interactions: The impact of imposition and uncertainty. Journal of Pragmatics 67 : 112–130.