148833 20250123145735.0 doi 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.05.014 sideral 126221 ART-2021-126221 eng Acuña Ferreira, Virginia Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6845-4242 The construction of future and hypothetical dialogues in third-party complaints as enactments of a subsequent direct complaint 2021 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This article shows that third-party complaints can orient to future or possible actions to solve an ongoing conflictive or problematic situation with the absent complainees. Relying on data from naturally occurring interactions among speakers of Spanish and Galician, the article analyses instances of future and hypothetical dialogues in complaint sequences about absent parties and demonstrates that these are designed as enactments of a direct complaint to be addressed to such people. Sequentially positioned in the complaint development, these enactments serve to rehearse this confrontation as a future remedial action, inviting audience''s assessments, as well as to reinforce the legitimacy of the complaints by demonstrating how these can be defended in addressing to the complainees. In so doing, even though in a fictitious way, complainers can vent their feelings of indignation against these people, avoiding the problems of real direct complaints as face-threatening acts (Brown and Levinson, 1987). info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/DGA/H25-20R info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 1.86 2021 LINGUISTICS 61 / 194 = 0.314 2021 Q2 T1 0.93 2021 Linguistics and Language 2021 Q1 Artificial Intelligence 2021 Q1 2.8 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 3013 567 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Lingüíst.y Liter.Hispán. Área Lengua Española 181 (2021), 68-79 J. pragmat. Journal of Pragmatics 0378-2166 285423 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/148833/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 2169997 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/148833/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:148833 articulos driver 2025-01-23-14:55:16 ARTICLE