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Release : 2015
Genre : POLITICAL SCIENCE
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The Language of Service Encounters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Language of Service Encounters write by . This book was released on 2015. The Language of Service Encounters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Service encounters are ubiquitous in social interaction. We buy food and everyday items in supermarkets, convenience stores, or markets; we purchase merchandise in department stores; or we request information at a visitor information center. This book offers a comprehensive account of service encounters in commercial and non-commercial settings. Grounded in naturally occurring face-to-face interactions and drawing on a pragmatic-discursive approach, J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer sets out a framework for the analysis of transactional and relational talk in various contexts in the United States and Mexico. This book investigates cross-cultural and intra-lingual pragmatic variation during the negotiation of service. The author provides a broad review of research on service encounters to date, and analyzes characteristics of sales transactions, such as participants' roles, pragmatic and discourse functions of relational talk and address forms, the realization of politeness, and changes in alignment from transactional to relational talk"--