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Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech ACT View of Solidarity in Spoken American English

Complaining and Commiserating: A Speech ACT View of Solidarity in Spoken American English

Hardcover

Series: History and Language, Book 2

English as a Second LanguageGeneral ReferenceGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0820420212
ISBN13: 9780820420219
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Dec 1 1993
Pages: 224
Language: English
This book provides an in-depth ethnographic analysis of the social functions of indirect complaints (ICs) and commiserative responses as they are used among speakers of American English and one group of Japanese learners of American English. The speech acts of complaining and commiserating are analysed as a function of the sociolinguistic variables of gender, social distance and relative social status.

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