Publications

Publication details [#48343]

Placencia, María Elena. 2008. Requests in corner shop transactions in Ecuadorian Andean and Coastal Spanish. In Schneider, Klaus P. and Anne Barron, eds. Variational Pragmatics. A focus on regional varieties in pluricentric languages. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 178). John Benjamins. pp. 307–332.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

language variety | pragmatics | request | service encounter

Language as a subject

Spanish

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

Annotation

This paper on variational pragmatics compares the formulation of corner shop transactional requests in the language varieties of Coastal Spanish and Ecuadorian Andean.