{"product_id":"complaining-and-commiserating-maria-stoffers-9780820420219","title":"Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech ACT View of Solidarity in Spoken American English","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Maria Stoffers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0820420212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820420219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1993\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Maria Stoffers","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48241117626623,"sku":"9780820420219","price":65.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_71438561-495c-4380-9658-d8d146d63d75.jpg?v=1772652819","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/complaining-and-commiserating-maria-stoffers-9780820420219","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}