Publication details
Los enunciados interrogativos al servicio de la cortesía verbal en el siglo XIX : los actos de habla comisivos y exhortativos
| Title in English | The interrogative speech at the service of the verbal politeness in the 19th century : exhortative speech acts and commissive speech acts |
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Études romanes de Brno |
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| Citation | |
| Web | Digitální knihovna FF MU |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/ERB2016-2-15 |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | Politeness; interrogative speech; exhortative speech acts; commissive speech acts; 19th century |
| Description | The purpose of this article is to study the use of interrogative speech as politeness strategies of commissive and exhortative speech acts in European Spanish of the nineteenth century. The examples try to demonstrate that the interrogative syntax was not used only with the purpose of ask for information but also with the purpose of move the hearer to determinate actions politely. The aim of the study is to explore the features of the verbal politeness of the past. |
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