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Mitigation

 | University of Valencia
 | University of Valencia
Published online: 18 September 2025
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https://doi.org/10.1075/hop.28.mit1
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Mitigation from different angles: Several perspectives on its study
    • 2.1From vagueness to mitigation
    • 2.2Social perspectives
    • 2.3Speech act perspectives
    • 2.4Psycho-social and metarepresentational perspectives
  • 3.Methodological considerations
  • 4.Future avenues of research
  • References
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