J. César Félix-Brasdefer
List of John Benjamins publications for which J. César Félix-Brasdefer plays a role.
Journals
ISSN 2589-109X | E-ISSN 2589-1103
Titles
Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological issues
Edited by J. César Félix-Brasdefer and Dale Koike
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 31] 2012. x, 338 pp.
Subjects Language acquisition | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Politeness in Mexico and the United States: A contrastive study of the realization and perception of refusals
J. César Félix-Brasdefer
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 171] 2008. xiv, 195 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | English linguistics | Germanic linguistics | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics
Articles
2021 Chapter 14. Developing advanced pragmatic competence in Spanish Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, challenges, and possibilities, Menke, Mandy R. and Paul A. Malovrh (eds.), pp. 323–348 | Chapter
This chapter provides an overview of the fundamental concepts in second language (L2) pragmatics, offering detailed descriptions of the challenges associated with the acquisition of pragmatics in advanced Spanish learners. It provides a discussion of speech acts and the comprehension of indirect… read more
2012 Chapter 1. Pragmatic variation by gender in market service encounters in Mexico Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological issues, Félix-Brasdefer, J. César and Dale Koike (eds.), pp. 17–48 | Article
This chapter examines pragmatic variation by gender in market service encounters in Southern Mexico. Following previous research in service encounters (Aston 1988a; Kerbrat-Orecchioni & Traverso 2008; Merritt 1976; Placencia 2008), this study examined 244 food-related transactions (122… read more
2012 E-mail requests to faculty: E-politeness and internal modification Interlanguage Request Modification, Economidou-Kogetsidis, Maria and Helen Woodfield (eds.), pp. 87–118 | Article
Based on existing research on Computer-Mediated Discourse, the present study examined the pragmalinguistic resources used by U.S. university-level students when writing e-mail requests in L1 English and L2 Spanish to faculty in cyber consultations. The focus of the study was the analysis of request… read more
2012 Introduction: Pragmatic variation in first and second language contexts Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological issues, Félix-Brasdefer, J. César and Dale Koike (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2012 Chapter 11. Conclusions: Methodological issues in pragmatic variation Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological issues, Félix-Brasdefer, J. César and Dale Koike (eds.), pp. 319–336 | Article
2010 Data collection methods in speech act performance: DCTs, role plays, and verbal reports Speech Act Performance: Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues, Martínez-Flor, Alicia and Esther Usó-Juan (eds.), pp. 41–56 | Article
This chapter takes a speech-act perspective and examines the degree of validity and reliability of three data collection methods used in speech act research: discourse completion tasks, role plays, and verbal reports. Various formats of these instruments and the type of data they produce under… read more
2008 Review of Reiter & Placencia (2005): Spanish Pragmatics Spanish in Context 5:1, pp. 148–151 | Review
2007 Natural speech vs. elicited data: A comparison of natural and role play requests in Mexican Spanish Spanish in Context 4:2, pp. 159–185 | Article
This study investigates issues of reliability and validity in pragmatics research and examines the extent to which role-play data approximate naturally-occurring discourse with respect to the content and frequency of requests in Mexican Spanish. The data were gathered from naturally-occurring… read more