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Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish.

Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish provides the reader with a representative spectrum of current research in the most dynamic areas of the pragmatics of Spanish. It brings together a collection of academic essays written by well-established as well as emerging voices in Hispanic pragmatics....

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Author / Creator: Márquez Reiter, Rosina.
Other Authors / Creators:Placencia, María Elena.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2004.
Subjects:
Spanish language > Discourse analysis.
Spanish language > Spoken Spanish.
Pragmatics.
Electronic books.
Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. Preface
  • 2. PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: THE PRAGMATICS OF SPANISH TO DATE
  • 3. 1. Spanish pragmatics: Whence, where, whither?
  • 4. 2. The pragmatics of Spanish beyond Spain
  • 5. PART TWO: PRAGMATICS AND OTHER DISCIPLINES
  • 6. Pragmatics and grammar
  • 7. 3. The Spanish subjunctive: Procedural semantics and pragmatic inference
  • 8. 4. Conditional: A grammaticalised marker of politeness in Spanish
  • 9. Pragmatics and applied linguistics
  • 10. 5. Role-plays and the assessment of oral proficiency in Spanish
  • 11. 6. Written pedagogic feedback and linguistic politeness
  • 12. Pragmatics and cross and inter-cultural communication
  • 13. 7. Displaying closeness and respectful distance in Montevidean and Quiteno service encounters
  • 14. 8. Speaking Spanish with Zapotec meaning. Requests and promises in intercultural communication in Oaxaca, Mexico
  • 15. PART THREE: COMMON TOPICS IN PRAGMATICS
  • 16. Discourse markers
  • 17. 9. Procedural constraints on context selection: Siempre as a discourse marker
  • 18. 10. Discourse markers in the construction of the text, the activity, and the social relations: Evidence from courtroom discourse
  • 19. Politeness
  • 20. 11. Coercion and cooperation: A case study of Argentinean reprimands and responses to reprimands
  • 21. 12. Politeness as `face' enhancement: An analysis of Spanish conversations between friends and family
  • 22. Metaphor
  • 23. 13. Quarrelling about metaphors of love: A pragmatic approach
  • 24. Humour
  • 25. 14. Pragmatic of humorous strategies in El club de la comedia
  • 26. PART FOUR: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED PRAGMATIC THEORY
  • 27. 15. Norms and principles. Putting social and cognitive pragmatics together
  • 28. Contributors
  • 29. Index

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