Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish

Editors

Rosina Márquez Reiter | University of Surrey

María Elena Placencia | Birkbeck College, University of London

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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. The essays include applications of pragmatic concepts to sub-fields of (Spanish) linguistics (i.e., pragmatics and grammar; pragmatics and applied linguistics; pragmatics and cross- and inter-cultural communication), studies of ‘traditional’ topics in pragmatics (i.e., discourse markers, politeness, metaphor, humour) as well as a proposal to amalgamate the dominant pragmatic approaches, namely socio-pragmatics and cognitive pragmatics, into one comprehensive model. The essays in this collection represent both new theoretical and empirical research and as such they constitute a valuable contribution to the field of pragmatics in general and an essential reference to those researching the pragmatics of Spanish.

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 123] 2004. xvi, 383 pp.

Publishing status: Available

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.123

Table of Contents

Preface | p. xi

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: THE PRAGMATICS OF SPANISH TO DATE

1. Spanish pragmatics: Whence, where, whither?

Leo D. Hickey | p. 3

2. The pragmatics of Spanish beyond Spain

Rosina Márquez Reiter and María Elena Placencia | p. 15

PART TWO: PRAGMATICS AND OTHER DISCIPLINES
Pragmatics and grammar

3. The Spanish subjunctive: Procedural semantics and pragmatic inference

Aoife K. Ahern and Manuel Leonetti | p. 35

4. Conditional: A grammaticalised marker of politeness in Spanish

Marianna Chodorowska-Pilch | p. 57

Pragmatics and applied linguistics

5. Role-plays and the assessment of oral proficiency in Spanish

Nuria Lorenzo-Dus and Paul Meara | p. 79

6. Written pedagogic feedback and linguistic politeness

Miranda Stewart | p. 99

Pragmatics and cross and inter-cultural communication

7. Displaying closeness and respectful distance in Montevidean and Quiteño service encounters

Rosina Márquez Reiter and María Elena Placencia | p. 121

8. Speaking Spanish with Zapotec meaning. Requests and promises in intercultural communication in Oaxaca, Mexico

Martina Schrader-Kniffki | p. 157

PART THREE: COMMON TOPICS IN PRAGMATICS
Discourse markers

9. Procedural constraints on context selection: Siempre as a discourse marker

Carmen Curcó | p. 179

10. Discourse markers in the construction of the text, the activity, and the social relations: Evidence from courtroom discourse

Isolda E. Carranza | p. 203

Politeness

11. Coercion and cooperation: A case study of Argentinean reprimands and responses to reprimands

Carmen García | p. 231

12. Politeness as ‘face’ enhancement: An analysis of Spanish conversations between friends and family

Nieves Hernández Flores | p. 265

Metaphor

13. Quarrelling about metaphors of love: A pragmatic approach

Eduardo Urios-Aparisi | p. 287

Humour

14. Pragmatic of humorous strategies in El club de la comedia

Francisco Yus | p. 319

PART FOUR: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED PRAGMATIC THEORY

15. Norms and principles. Putting social and cognitive pragmatics together

M. Victoria Escandell-Vidal | p. 347

Contributors | p. 373

Subjects

Linguistics

Romance linguistics

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2004047623