• openAccess   Research methodologies in pragmatics : eliciting refusals to requests 

      Martínez-Flor, Alicia; Usó-Juan, Esther Universidad de Sevilla (2011)
      The speech act of refusing, as a dispreferred response, is complex to perform and it usually involves indirect strategies as well as mitigating devices to avoid risking the initiator’s positive face. The appropriate choice ...