Browsing by Author "Reyes O'Ryan, Antonia"

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    Lo que pasa es que la política se ha puesto farandulera: Justificaciones atenuantes de aserciones de opinión en el corpus preseea de Santiago de Chile
    (Universidad Catolica Silva Henriquez, 2020) Guerrero González, Silvana; Gajardo Moller, Consuelo; Gonzalez Riffo, Javier Andres; Reyes O'Ryan, Antonia
    This study examined the pragmatic and discursive behavior of the rhetorical strategies that allow for justifying assertive speech acts in the Proyecto para el Estudio Sociolingüístico del Español de España y de América de Santiago de Chile corpus. Three strategies used for justifying in Chilean Spanish have described: Justifications as such, explanations, and comparisons. This investigation revised the pragmatic and discursive function of the linguistic resources available for justifying each strategy and offers a systematization of said resources. Finally, it gives an account of how these strategies work with the functions of mitigation. In which case, this research concludes that the strategies under study function as a means for self-protection to safe the speaker's face and/or prevent potential threats to the hearer's face.