This article presents the results of a study carried out with Spanish Universitystudents on their use of strategies of (in)directness when expressing complaints, disapprovals and disagreements in English and Spanish. We adopt a role-playeliciting procedure for the collection of …
by Brugè, Laura
fromOxford studies in comparative syntax
Since the 1970s functionalism has been attached to a variety of movements and models making major contributions to linguistic theory. Over the past decades it has gained more ground, and we now have a substantial body of literature from various perspectives making a positive imp…
