• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • openAccess   The Effect of Instruction on Learners’ Pragmatic Awareness: a Focus on Refusals 

      Alcón, Eva; Guzmán Pitarch, Josep Roderic Universidad de Murcia (2010)
      The benefits of instruction on learners’ production and awareness of speech acts is well documented (see Alcón and Martínez-Flor, 2008, for a review of pragmatics in instructional contexts). However, few studies examine ...