| Title: | Hedging Opinion in Romanian Conversational Discourse: The Use of Softeners |
| Author: | Diana Hornoiu |
| Publication: | Analele Universității „Ovidius” din Constanța. Seria Filologie, XXII (1), p. 167-175 |
| p-ISSN: | 1223-7248 |
| Publisher: | Ovidius University Press |
| Place: | Constanța |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Abstract: | This corpus-based paper addresses the use of softeners in Romanian conversational discourse. It highlights two important interactional functions: (i) as devices for mitigating the imposition of face-threatening acts; (ii) as markers of shared knowledge. When they serve the latter function, softeners offer the addressee the opportunity to provide support, understanding, thus showing that both speaker and addressee are on the same wavelength. |
| Key words: | conversation analysis, extreme case formulation, face-threatening act, positive politeness, softener |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
Citations to this publication: 1
| 1 | Florin Sterian | Bibliografia românească de lingvistică (BRL, 55, 2012). Lucrări de lingvistică apărute în țara noastră în cursul anului 2012 | LR, LXII (3), 271-408 | 2013 | pdf html |
References in this publication: 1
| 1 | Diana Hornoiu | Avoiding disagreement in Romanian conversational discourse: the use of diminutives | BWPL, X (2) | 2008 | pdf html |
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