https://doi.org/10.31261/FL.2021.08.11
A REFUSAL is an act of speech that belongs to the so-called critical speech acts. Its implementation poses a threat to the interaction balance between the sender and the recipient. For this reason, language uses resort to a variety of verbal and non-verbal strategies related to REFUSAL. A special case of the implementation of this speech act are letters of rejection for job applications, in which the refusal should – directly or indirectly – be expressed. Senders of this genre of texts formulate the refusal in different ways. This article examines the forms in which the speech act REFUSAL is implemented in German, drawing from the aforementioned genre. The aim is to identify strategies used in the realization of this speech act and to create a typology of forms used in the linguistic uses of REFUSAL.
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No. 8 (2021)
Published: 2021-06-18
10.31261/FL
Język Polski
English