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Publication details [#14139]

Caffi, Claudia. 1999. On mitigation. Journal of Pragmatics 31 (7) : 881–909.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

Following a historiographical sketch, the issue of mitigation is reanalyzed in a broad pragmatic framework by relating rhetorical and psychological approaches to interaction. Based on Italian doctor-patient and psychotherapeutic conversations, mitigator types and mitigation strategies are discussed in terms of their instrumental adequacy and psychological distance.