Criticism and politeness strategies in academic review discourse: a contrastive (English-Italian) corpus-based analysis
Drawing on a corpus-based approach, this paper explores the mitigation strategies used to soften criticism in English and Italian book review articles in the disciplinary field of linguistics. Most corpus-based analyses on academic criticism have focused on the use and function of politeness strate...
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Vilnius University
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Kalbotyra |
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| Online Access: | http://www.journals.vu.lt/kalbotyra/article/view/11188 |