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Abstract EN

Mitigation is an interesting pragmatic concept which has attracted some attention.

It can usefully be dealt with due to its relationship with several general communicative strategies, such as attenuation and boosting, which are required for modifying the strength of speech acts.

The effects of these strategies on, positively or negatively, effective speech acts are discussed and exemplified in this paper.

Additionally, reasons for using such strategies are considered.

Further, a range of linguistic devices, which could be used to modify the illocutionary force of speech acts, is described and illustrated.