ABSTRACT
In this chapter of the book, readers are presented with a review and an exercise that examines mitigating devices and strategies in longer stretches of discourse. It discusses how mitigation manifests in spontaneous interactions and oral narratives of personal experience. The analyses presented in the chapter employ multiple theoretical frameworks: Politeness Theory (PT), Speech Act Theory (SAT), Pragmatic Variation (PV), the framework of the Psycho-social and Affective (PS) aspects of mitigation. The chapter also briefly discusses intensification to illustrate how it operates in contrast to attenuated expressions.
