This paper is an introduction to the Special Issue Revisiting Problems on Pragmatic Mitigation: New Methodological Insights. The aim of the introduction is two-fold: to present a brief overview of the studies on mitigation so far, and to introduce the papers included in the Special Issue.

From its origins in the field of formal semantics, the angle on mitigation has changed. At present, the pragmatic perspective has taken on major importance, and reveals how the expression of pragmatic mitigation is not systematically linked to the use of specific linguistic forms, but depends on situational factors (contextual, interactional, intentional, discursive), allowing a better recognition of mitigation, and making it easier to distinguish it from similar phenomena, such as vague language or verbal politeness.

The seven papers included in this SI use corpus data from different discourse genres, mainly from Spanish, aiming to characterise mitigation and to offer unified criteria for its recognition. The SI proposes a multidimensional approach to mitigation from a cognitive, socio-rhetorical, and linguistic point of view. Three studies, Albelda and Estellés (2021), Uclés Ramada (2020) and Villalba Ibáñez (2020), address the theoretical and methodological aspects of mitigation. Cabedo Nebot (2021) analyzes the prosody of mitigation and how it interacts with its lexical expression. Figueras Bates (2021) examines the incidence of the psychological dimension in the configuration of mitigation, and García Ramón (2021) explores mitigation from the point of view of Conversation Analysis. Finally, Kotwica (2020) examines the phenomenon of mitigation in relation to the semantic–pragmatic concept of evidentiality.

本文是对“重访实用缓解问题的特刊：新方法论见解”的介绍。介绍的目的有两个：简要概述迄今为止的缓解研究，并介绍特刊中包含的论文。

从形式语义学领域的起源来看，缓解的角度已经改变。目前，语用视角已成为重中之重，它揭示了语用缓和的表达如何不是系统地与特定语言形式的使用联系起来，而是取决于情境因素（语境、交互、意向、话语），从而更好地表达识别缓解，并使其更容易与类似现象区分开来，例如模糊的语言或口头礼貌。

本 SI 中包含的 7 篇论文使用来自不同语篇类型的语料库数据，主要来自西班牙语，旨在表征缓解并为其识别提供统一标准。SI 从认知、社会修辞和语言的角度提出了一种多维缓解方法。Albelda 和 Estellés (2021)、Uclés Ramada (2020) 和 Villalba Ibáñez (2020) 这三项研究涉及缓解的理论和方法方面。Cabedo Nebot (2021) 分析了缓解的韵律以及它如何与其词汇表达相互作用。Figueras Bates (2021) 研究了缓解配置中心理维度的发生率，García Ramón (2021) 从对话分析的角度探讨了缓解。最后，