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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466397603321

Titolo

The pragmatics of sensitive activities in institutional discourse / / edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen, University of Manchester ; Rosina Márquez Reiter, University of Surrey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018]

©2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (202 pages)

Collana

Benjamins current topics ; ; Volume 96

Disciplina

401/.45

Soggetti

Oral communication

Interpersonal relations

Interpersonal communication

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction  / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter -- Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters: face and identity implications / Rosina Márquez Reiter, Kristina Ganchenko and Anna Charalambidou -- Negotiating with the boss: an inter- and cross-cultural perspective on problematic talk / Lars Fant and Annika Denke -- Evading and resisting answering: an analysis of Mexican Spanish news interviews / Ariel Vázquez Carranza -- Apologies made at the Leveson inquiry: triggers and responses / James Murphy -- When questioners count on the recipients' lack of knowledge: a recurring "question" "answer" format in guided tours / Anna Claudia Ticca and Véronique Traverso -- When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive / Sara Orthaber and Rosina Márquez Reiter -- Patterns of thanking in the closing section of UK service calls: marking conversational macro-structure vs managing interpersonal relations  / Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen.