Publications

Publication details [#53149]

Félix-Brasdefer, J. César. 2010. Intra-lingual pragmatic variation in Mexico City and San José, Costa Rica: A focus on regional differences in female requests. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (11) : 2992–3011.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

dialectology | gender | pragmatics | request

Language as a subject

Spanish, Costa Rican | Spanish, Mexican

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study explores intra-lingual pragmatic variation based on gender in the realization of requests by Mexican and Costa Rican Spanish speaking females. It contributes to research on regional pragmatic variation by investigating the interface between dialectology and pragmatics.