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The aim of this paper is to analyse a set of macrosintactic elements in the speech of the football players of two Spanish teams: Real Betis Balompié and Sevilla Fútbol Club, in order to determine how they speak about victories and defeats. To make it possible, the Pragmatics linguistics model of Fuentes Rodríguez is used as a analytical tool. The results show that argumentative operators are the most common elements of speech, specially intensifiers, as it occurs in the case of other argumentative markers. Moreover, modal operators, the second group in frequency, reveal that the football players prefer to mitigate their assertions. Finally, in the case of enunciative operators, despite their low frequency, those that characterize their speech as honest are used. We suggest that football players' speech are mostly persuasive, although they do not present their assertions as a doubtless, something that has to do with the polemic context of football as a mass entertainment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study analyzes the use of the imperative mode in Twitter statements directed at Mexican presidents. It examines how speech acts are performed using imperatives and considers the possible presence of irony in these acts. According to the study's results, imperatives are mainly used in requests and advice, and to a lesser extent in other directive acts, indirect threats, disagreements, and discourse markers. They are also used as ironic acts that express critical comments towards the recipients. [Extracted from the article]

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This article examines laughter as a politeness strategy when it appears in face-threatening acts. The data comes from a video-recorded and naturally occurring interaction from the everyday context between three close friends. Eighty-one instances of laughter were found in face-threatening acts such as conversational inappropriateness, risky statements, criticism, and disagreement. The pragmalinguistic analysis reveals that the laughther appeared in face-threatening acts works as politeness strategy while strengthening social face, mitigating a potential attack or reinforcing a face threatening. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of this article is to analyse strategies and linguistic resources which characterize the verbal politeness of the directive speech acts in European Spanish of the nineteenth century, specifically verbal politeness of the requests. We have collected texts written in the 19th century and these will be analysed. In this work we will offer various examples which serve to illustrate of concrete usage of this historic period. The justification for this work is that we consider that it is necessary to pay more attention to the pragmatic aspects of the past. The theoretical framework is based on the concept of the verbal politeness of Brown and Levinson (1978, 1987) and the theory of speech acts of Austin (1962) and Searle (1969, 1976). The results of the analysis show diverse linguistic strategies of the politeness present in the corpus. In our work we have found that speakers tended to use preferentially in their requests indirect and softened linguistic form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article presents the results of a cross-sectional quantitative study in interlanguage pragmatics. The main objective of this study was to determine the role played by negative pragmalinguistic transfer from L1 (Chilean Spanish) and overall grammatical proficiency in L2 (English) in the development of L2 learners' pragmatic competence. To this end, the requests produced in English by two groups of EFL learners were analyzed and compared to the requests produced by two groups of native speakers (native English speakers and native Spanish speakers). Data were collected through a written discourse completion task. Although it was possible to identify instances of pragmalinguistic transfer in the level of directness, sub-strategies and perspective adopted in the requests produced by the two groups of learners, this type of transfer does not seem to play a significant role in the development of their pragmatic competence. Results also suggest that, at least for the participants in this study, it is not possible to establish a clear and significant relation between overall grammatical proficiency in L2 and pragmalinguistic transfer from L1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the parliamentary language the imposition is the norm. This is not impolite but the expected behaviour. The speaker uses this by a mark of certainty and brightness. So the modals don't express the speaker's subjectivity. On the contrary, they indicate, rhetorically, the style of the speech. They mark a discursive style, a characteristic of the parliamentary assertion. Forms of opinion or probability are used as operators of the neutral assertion (yo creo) and as mitigation marks (probablemente…). The adverbs of reaffirmation or evidentiality (desde luego, por supuesto…) give brightness and force to the expression, to the verbal form. An approach from the politeness theory reveals to us, then, that we must consider, in a pragmalinguistic study, not only the communicative situation but also the discourse typology to explain the linguistic functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]