Mitigation (SiP 4): A Pragmatic Approach (Studies in Pragmatics) Book

Hardbound. This book presents a new integrated pragmatic approach to linguistic politeness rooted in the notion of mitigation. The approach, parts of which have been proposed in earlier works by the author, focuses on what is known as the 'pragmatics of identity'. Pragmatic insights into politeness and face-work and findings from a number of bordering research fields are combined in the book into a unified, extended framework that makes it possible to take psychological aspects of polite communication in context into account.

The theoretical framework for the study of mitigation presented in this highly original, well-rounded volume joins different traditions of communication research. On the one hand, diachronic bridges are built between pragmatics and rhetoric; on the other, interdisciplinary bridges are built between pragmatics and clinical communications studies. Claudia Caffi's Mitigation introduces an important notion into pragmatics in an excep