The ES.VAR.ATENUACIÓN form. A tool customizable for every genre? The case of oral trials
Journal Title: Textos en Proceso - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
Papers about mitigation in formal registers have addressed the phenomenon mainly from academic genres (Hyland 1996, Garcia-Negroni, 2005; Markkanen and Schröder. 1997). These studies have contributed positively to the description of the attenuating activity, helping to strengthen the hypothesis widely endorsed by the scientific community, that mitigation and politeness are not equivalent (Hernández Flores, 2002, p. 57; 2004: 98-99; Bravo, 2002, p. 101; Briz and Albeldam, 2010 and Briz, 2012a). However, little research can be found (except for that of Martinovski, 2006) that addresses the study of attenuation in trials, one of the genres that are designated as prototype of the formal oral register. Therefore, this paper aims to contribute to expand the study of the functions and mechanisms of mitigation to other genres and, in order to do that, a suitable methodology is indispensable. Hence, the aim of this paper is to assess to what extent the theoretical and methodological approach of Briz and Albelda (2013) for ES.VAR.ATENUACIÓN project is applicable to other genres and, more specifically, trials.
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Cristina Villalba Ibáñez
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- DOI 10.17710/tep.2015.1.2.1villalba
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