A contrastive study of conventional indirectness in Spanish

This article examines the results of a contrastive empirical study conventional indirect requests in Peninsular and Uruguayan Spanish. The reveal pragmatic similarities at level linguistic encoding utterances with both, Spanish speakers showing negative correlation between (in)directness social distance. less familiar interlocutors are each other, more likely it is for their to be realised indirectly. On other hand, differences were found tentativeness conveyed by these two language varieties. tentative than those was achieved through frequent varied use external modifications much higher incidence internal modificating devices downgrading type.