• openAccess   Learning how to mitigate requests throught an explicit pragmatics-based method 

      Martínez-Flor, Alicia; Usó-Juan, Esther Servicio de Publicacións da Universidade de Vigo (2008)
      It is widely agreed that the goal of language teaching is to develop learners’ communicative competence (Usó-Juan and Martínez-Flor, 2006). Consequently, instructional practices should focus not just on the knowledge ...
    • openAccess   Refusal strategies : a proposal from a sociopragmatic approach 

      Salazar-Campillo, Patricia; Safont, Pilar; Codina-Espurz, Victòria Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (2009)
      The aim of this paper is to present an open typology of refusal strategies which may be employed in the analysis of refusal performance from a discourse approach. We will first review previous research carried out on ...