Table of contents
Prefacexi
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: THE PRAGMATICS OF SPANISH TO DATE
1. Spanish pragmatics: Whence, where, whither?3
2. The pragmatics of Spanish beyond Spain15
PART TWO: PRAGMATICS AND OTHER DISCIPLINES
Pragmatics and grammar
3. The Spanish subjunctive: Procedural semantics and pragmatic inference35
4. Conditional: A grammaticalised marker of politeness in Spanish57
Pragmatics and applied linguistics
5. Role-plays and the assessment of oral proficiency in Spanish79
6. Written pedagogic feedback and linguistic politeness99
Pragmatics and cross and inter-cultural communication
7. Displaying closeness and respectful distance in Montevidean and Quiteño service encounters121
8. Speaking Spanish with Zapotec meaning. Requests and promises in intercultural communication in Oaxaca, Mexico157
PART THREE: COMMON TOPICS IN PRAGMATICS
Discourse markers
9. Procedural constraints on context selection: Siempre as a discourse marker179
10. Discourse markers in the construction of the text, the activity, and the social relations: Evidence from courtroom discourse203
Politeness
11. Coercion and cooperation: A case study of Argentinean reprimands and responses to reprimands231
12. Politeness as ‘face’ enhancement: An analysis of Spanish conversations between friends and family265
Metaphor
13. Quarrelling about metaphors of love: A pragmatic approach287
Humour
14. Pragmatic of humorous strategies in El club de la comedia319
PART FOUR: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED PRAGMATIC THEORY
15. Norms and principles. Putting social and cognitive pragmatics together347
Contributors373
Index379
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