TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maria Stoffers
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1062-2306
TI  - Complaining and Commiserating
T2  - A Speech Act View of Solidarity in Spoken American English
N2  - 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.  Indirect complaints were found to be ubiquitous in the ordinary conversation of the native speakers studied. The vast majority of IC exchanges were found to establish solidarity between interlocutors based on a shared view.
LA  - English
ER  -