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Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech Act View of Solidarity in Spoken American English (History and Language)

Maria Stoffers

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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.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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech Act View of Solidarity in Spoken American English (History and Language). To get started finding Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech Act View of Solidarity in Spoken American English (History and Language), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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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.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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech Act View of Solidarity in Spoken American English (History and Language). To get started finding Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech Act View of Solidarity in Spoken American English (History and Language), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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