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The research found in this article is part of a more extensive study about argumentation as a natural logic macro-operation through which the speaker states a point of view (or an opinion) by performing discursive procedures such as justification. Its main objective is to describe the uses of mitigation in argumentative justifications. The sample submitted to examination includes argumentative justifications uttered by individuals with college degree as minimal education level.  From a qualitative approach, this article:  States the rhetorical and logical value of ‘attenuation’, defined as a discursive procedure by which the emitter mitigates his/her utterances through some strategies related to face-work.  Distinguishes the uses of mitigation as a demonstration of courtesy, and as a pragmatic strategy to achieve some other pragmatic purpose; and Describes the impact of culture and ideology in the use of mitigation strategies.  Furthermore, quantitative techniques are applied: to delimit the sociolinguistic distribution of each of the elements analyzed, in correlation with ‘age’ and ‘sex’ variation; and also to identify the most common attenuation indicators found in the selected sample.

La atenuación en la justificación argumentativa. Un estudio aplicado al discurso de informantes con educación universitaria