On mitigation

Adamzik, 1984

Arndt, 1987

1994

Austin, 1962

Authier-Revuz, 1994

Bally, 1963

Bally, 1965

Bange, 1992

Bateson, 1981

Bazzanella, 1991, Scalar dimensions of illocutionary force, 63

Beavin-Bavelas, 1985, A situational theory of disqualification: Using language to ‘leave the field’, 189

Beavin-Bavelas, 1990

Emile, 1958, De la subjectivité dans le langage

Benveniste, 1970, L'appareil formel de l'énonciation, 17

Bergmann, 1992, 137

Bertalanffy, 1968

1989

Blum-Kulka, 1992, The metapragmatics of politeness in Israeli society, 255

Brown, 1989, Politeness theory and Shakespeare's four major tragedies, Language in society, 18, 159, 10.1017/S0047404500013464

Brown, 1978, Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena, 56

Bühler, 1934

Caffi, 1991, Modulazione, mitigazione, litote, 169

Caffi, 1992, Il concetto di coinvolgimento nella linguistica pragmatica, 267

Caffi, 1993, Metapragmatics

Caffi, 1994, Antifrasi, atto illocutorio, atto linguistico, atto locutorio, atto perlocutorio, digressione, enfasi, forza illocutoria, ironia, litote, mitigazione, perifrasi, preterizione, reticenza, riassunto

Caffi, 1995, Per una prospettiva pragmatica sull'italiano parlato: La mitigazione

Caffi, 1997, Mitigation in doctor-patient interaction

Caffi, Claudia, in preparation. La mitigazione.

Caffi, 1994, Toward a pragmatics of emotive communication, Journal of Pragmatics, 22, 325, 10.1016/0378-2166(94)90115-5

1995, 70/71

Cicourel, 1992, The interpenetration of communicative contexts: Examples from medical encounters, 291

von Cranach, 1980

Dressler, 1994

Drew, 1992

1992

Edmondson, 1981

Edmondson, 1981

Fairclough, 1992

Fraser, 1980, Conversational mitigation, Journal of Pragmatics, 4, 341, 10.1016/0378-2166(80)90029-6

Frijda, 1982, The meanings of emotional expression, 103

Gaik, 1992, 271

Ghiglione, 1986

Giles, 1991

Giles, 1979, Speech markers in social interaction, 343

Givón, 1989

Goffman, 1967

Goffman, 1979, Footing, Semiotica, 25, 1, 10.1515/semi.1979.25.1-2.1

Greimas, 1979

Grice, 1975, Logic and conversation, 41

Gumperz, 1982, Fact and inference in courtroom testimony, 163

Gumperz, 1992, 229

Hagège, 1985

Haley, 1959, An interactional description of schizophrenia, Psychiatry, 22, 321, 10.1080/00332747.1959.11023187

Halliday, 1976, Modality and modulation in English, 189

Haverkate, 1992, Deictic categories as mitigating devices, Pragmatics, 2, 505, 10.1075/prag.2.4.03hav

Held, 1992, 131

1989

1993

Hölker, 1988

Holly, 1979

House, 1981, Politeness markers in English and German, 157

Hübler, 1983

Kerbrat-Orecchioni, 1990

Labov, 1977

Lakoff, 1973, Hedges: A study in meaning criteria and the logic of fuzzy concepts, Journal of Philosophical Logics, 2, 458

Lakoff, 1980, How to look as if you aren't doing anything with words, Speech act qualification, 26/27, 29

Langner, 1994

Lausberg, 1967

Leech, 1983

Levinson, 1987

Levinson, 1988, Putting linguistics on a proper footing: Explorations in Goffman's concepts of participation, 161

Levinson, 1992, 66

Lewin, 1935

Lyons, 1977

Maynard, 1992, 331

Mey, 1985

Mey, 1993

Meyer-Hermann, 1982, Zur Interpretation und interaktiven Funktion von Abschwächungen in Therapiegesprächen, 242

Mitchum, 1989, 109

Mortara-Garavelli, 1990, Retorica e analisi del discorso, Lingua e stile, 15, 495

Perelman, 1958

1989

Sbisà, 1989

Searle, 1975, A taxonomy of illocutionary acts, 344

Selting, 1994, Emphatic speech style - with special focus on the prosodic signalling of heightened emotive involvement in conversation, Journal of Pragmatics, 22, 375, 10.1016/0378-2166(94)90116-3

Silverman, 1987, Communication and medical practice

Simmel, 1983

Sluzki, 1967, Transactional disqualification: Research on the double bind, Archives General Psychiatry, 16, 494, 10.1001/archpsyc.1967.01730220106014

Thomas, 1989, 133

Verschueren, 1987, Pragmatics as a theory of linguistic adaptation, IPrA Working Document, 1

1992

Watzlawick, 1967

Weingarten, 1990, Reformulierung in der Gesprächspsychotherapie, 228

Wiener, 1968

Winnicott, 1965