Emotive politeness in face-threatening speech acts: cross-cultural perspectives
... refusal to a request to write a review of an article and a refusal to an invitation to contribute to a special issue of a journal. The study focuses on the structure of refusal, the ways it is performed, supporting moves that aim to mitigate its threat, as well as combinations of these and their conventional features. Contrastive analysis draws on the main provisions of emotive lingua-ecology, cross-cultural pragmatics, the theory of (im)politeness and communicative ethnostyles. Taking into ...
