• 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 ...