Scenes of family life - complaining in everyday conversation

By Marty Laforest. 2002

155 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy

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Citations in the corpus

• American and Chinese complaints: Strategy use from a cross-cultural perspective (2011, background): “Such an act is, by nature, not explicit because many assertions intending to carry the illocutionary function of complaining may be regarded as simple comments, while many observations that do not intend to carry such illocutionary function may be taken as complaints (Edmonson 1981; Laforest 2002).”