Mitigation: The combined effects of imposition and certitude  

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Czerwionka, Lori

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 44 no. 10 (2012), page 1163--1182.
Topik: Mitigation; Imposition; Certitude; Discoursemarkers; Interpersonalmarkers
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This investigationexaminesthedegreetowhichlinguisticmitigationismotivatedbylevelsofimpositionandspeakercertitudein dialogic interactionsinSpanish.Inanexperimentalapproach,nativespeakersofMexicanSpanishparticipatedinfourroleplay scenarios, eachvaryinginthelevelsofimpositionandcertitude.Mitigationwasmeasuredusingadensitymeasureofmitigationmarkers (i.e., interpersonalmarkers,discoursemarkers,andepistemicmarkers).Resultsindicatedthatsevereimpositionandspeaker uncertainty motivatemitigation.Asignificantinteractionbetweenimpositionandcertitudeshowedthatthecombinedeffectofsevere imposition andspeakeruncertaintymotivatesthehighestdegreeofmitigation,confirmingthehypothesis.Specifically,theimpactof certitude wasshowntobemodulatedbyimposition.Subsequentquantitativeandqualitativeanalysesdemonstratedthatepistemic markers wereunexpectedlylimited.Interpersonalanddiscoursemarkersinteracteddifferentlywiththetwomotivationsofmitigation, aligning withdistinctcopingmechanisms.

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