1. Expresión y gestión de diferencias de opinión en grupos de foco en línea: usos y efectos de la atenuación e intensificación.
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LAETITIA, AULIT
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This research analyzes the mitigation and intensification strategies used in expressing and managing differences of opinion within two online focus groups organized on the controversial Moors and Christians festivals with participants that come from a locality where the festivals are celebrated. Drawing on pragma-dialectical theory (van Eemeren, 2018), we study the expression and management of differences of opinion based on the concept of critical discussion and analyze the mitigation and intensification strategies used at each stage of their resolution, employing our own methodology (Aulit, 2023) adapted from Albelda Marco et al. (2014). Given that mitigation is a rhetorical-pragmatic strategy originated by face protection needs and intensification an argumentative strategy of reinforcement of the propositional content or communicative intention (Albelda and Briz, 2020), we highlight the argumentative and social effects produced by these strategies and their impact on softening or aggravating disagreements. The results show differences in the uses and effects generated by mitigation and intensification between the two groups at each stage of the critical discussion. However, the adequacy of these effects to the communication situation and speaker intention allows for the annihilation of potential conflicts and thus the maintain of a positive interactive climate and interpersonal relationship among the participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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