Mitigation
2007, 1st edition. Amsterdam : Elsevier. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #397374
Series: Studies in pragmatics; 4. Physical description: xiii, 342 pages ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-297) and indexes. Contents: Cover -- Mitigation -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Foreword -- Presentation of the corpus -- Structure of the book -- Transcription conventions -- List of abbreviations -- List of metalinguistic abbreviations -- Glossary -- Chapter 1 Pragmatics: Subject and Subjectivity -- 1.0. Foreword -- 1.1. Towards a psychostylistics of interaction -- 1.2. A 'loaded' discipline -- 1.3. The subjectivity of language -- 1.3.1. The instance d'énonciation (Benveniste, 1966) -- 1.3.2. The deictic origin (Bühler, 1934) -- 1.3.3. The egocentric child (Piaget, 1989 [1926]) -- 1.4. A complex subjectivity -- 1.5. Stylistic markers -- 1.6. Semiotic markers -- 1.7. The function of identity maintenance and 'speech markers' (Giles et al., 1979) -- 1.8. Contextualizations cues (Gumperz, 1982a) -- 1.9. Mitigation: first definitions -- 1.10. Bridging the gap between linguistic pragmatics and self-psychology -- Chapter 2 Mitigation: The Background -- 2.0. Introduction -- 2.0.1. Structure of the chapter -- 2.0.2. Scopes of mitigating devices -- 2.1. Ideas of mitigation -- 2.1.1. Mitigation in different research areas: the empirical turn -- 2.1.2. Hedges in Brown and Levinson (1987) -- 2.1.3. Mitigation as vagueness: hedges -- 2.1.4. Mitigation as indirectedness (Fraser, 1975; Leech, 1983; Holmes, 1984) -- 2.1.5. Mitigation as de-focalization of deictic origin -- 2.1.6. Mitigation as removal of unwelcome perlocutionary effects (Fraser, 1980) -- 2.1.7. Prince, Frader, and Bosk (1982) -- 2.1.8. The notion of weakening (Abschwächung) -- 2.2. Intensity -- 2.2.1. Intensity according to Bally (1970 [1909]) -- 2.2.2. Intensity according to Strawson (1964) -- 2.3. Towards an extended notion of mitigation -- 2.3.1. Some conceptual distinctions -- 2.3.2. The multidisciplinary relevance of mitigation -- 2.4. Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Pragmatics of Mitigation: Bushes, Hedges and Shields -- 3.0. Introduction -- 3.1. Mitigation as a bridging category -- 3.2. Types of mitigating devices (Habermas, 1987 [1981]) -- 3.3. The functioning of mitigation -- 3.3.1. Bushes -- 3.3.2. Hedges -- 3.3.3. Combination of bushes and hedges -- 3.3.4. Shields -- 3.4. Other strategies of mitigation: quotational shields and topical shields -- 3.5. Conclusions -- Chapter 4 Mitigation and Emotive Communication: Steps Toward a Psychostylistic Approach -- 4.0. Introduction -- 4.1. Style as a psycholinguistic issue: the role of emotion -- 4.1.1. Mitigation as an empathic strategy: attunement (Stern, 1985) -- 4.1.2. The other edge of the sword: mitigation as an anti-empathic strategy -- 4.2. On the conceptualization of emotion in linguistic theories -- 4.3. A folk psychological category: involvement -- 4.4. An approach to emotive c.
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Pragmatics; Politeness (Linguistics); Sociolinguistics.
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