Publications
Placencia, María Elena. 2016. Regional pragmatic variation in the use of the discourse marker pues in informal talk among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain). Journal of Pragmatics 97 : 74–92.
Placencia, María Elena. 2008. (Non)Compliance with directives among family and friends: Responding to social pressure and individual wants. Intercultural Pragmatics 5 (3) : 315–344.
Placencia, María Elena. 2008. Requests in corner shop transactions in Ecuadorian Andean and Coastal Spanish. In : 307–332.