Mitigation (SiP 4)
- 1st Edition, Volume 4 - November 21, 2006
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Editor: Claudia Caffi
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 6 6 2 2 - 4
This fourth volume in the Studies in Pragmatics (SiP) series is a fittingly solid, well-illustrated and theoretical account of Mitigation (as a form of Politeness). The main goal… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis fourth volume in the Studies in Pragmatics (SiP) series is a fittingly solid, well-illustrated and theoretical account of Mitigation (as a form of Politeness). The main goal of this book is to present a new integrated pragmatic approach to communication. The approach has been called ‘pragmatics of identity’. It's major feature is that it aims at integrating pragmatic views (research on politeness, face-work, etc.) with insights from different research fields into an extended framework where psychological aspects of communication in context also can be taken into account.
Students and Professors of Linguistics, in particular, but not exclusively, pragmatics; philosophy of language; discourse analysis; rhetoric; counselling; educators of medical professionals; psychotherapists in linguistic and communication skills as well as those professionals themselves that are involved in academic research.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Pragmatics: subject and subjectivity
Chapter 2 - Mitigation: the background
Chapter 3 - Pragmatics of mitigation: bushes, hedges, shields
Chapter 4 - Mitigation and emotive communication: steps toward a psychostylistic approach
Chapter 5 - Doctor-patient dialogue: a case-study
Chapter 6 - Grammar of mitigation in doctor-patient dialogue
Conclusions
Bibliography
Appendices
Name Index
Subject Index
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Pragmatics: subject and subjectivity
Chapter 2 - Mitigation: the background
Chapter 3 - Pragmatics of mitigation: bushes, hedges, shields
Chapter 4 - Mitigation and emotive communication: steps toward a psychostylistic approach
Chapter 5 - Doctor-patient dialogue: a case-study
Chapter 6 - Grammar of mitigation in doctor-patient dialogue
Conclusions
Bibliography
Appendices
Name Index
Subject Index
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 4
- Published: November 21, 2006
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- No. of pages: 358
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780080466224
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Claudia Caffi
Affiliations and expertise
Genoa University, Italy