Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech ACT View of Solidarity in Spoken American English by Stoffers, Maria

Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech ACT View of Solidarity in Spoken American English (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820420219)

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Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech ACT View of Solidarity in Spoken American English by Stoffers, Maria

Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech ACT View of Solidarity in Spoken American English

$65.95
Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech ACT View of Solidarity in Spoken American English by Stoffers, Maria

Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech ACT View of Solidarity in Spoken American English

$65.95
Format: Hardcover
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This book provides an in-depth ethnographic analysis of the social functions of indirect complaints (ICs) and commiserative responses as they are used among speakers of American English and one group of Japanese learners of American English. The speech acts of complaining and commiserating are analysed as a function of the sociolinguistic variables of gender, social distance and relative social status.
Indirect complaints were found to be ubiquitous in the ordinary conversation of the native speakers studied. The vast majority of IC exchanges were found to establish solidarity between interlocutors based on a shared view.

Author: Maria Stoffers
ISBN-10: 0820420212
ISBN-13: 9780820420219
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 12/01/1993
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
By Maria Stoffers
By Maria Stoffers
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The Author: Diana Boxer received her Ph.D. in educational linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1991. She is an assistant professor of linguistics and academic coordinator of the English Language Institute at the University of Florida. Dr. Boxer has thought foreign languages and English as a second and foreign language both in the U.S. and abroad.

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