Avoiding disagreement in Romanian conversational discourse: the use of diminutives
The paper examines the role of diminutives, a subclass of softeners, in Romanian conversational discourse as positive politeness devices for avoiding disagreement. Like many other pragmatic particles softeners are multifunctional. In addition to mitigating the imposition of face-threatening acts, so...
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| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
2008-01-01
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| Series: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/avoiding_disagreement_in_romanian_conversational_discourse_the_use_of_diminutives |