ABSTRACT
The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics is the first volume to offer a comprehensive overview of advances in Spanish Pragmatics, addressing different types of interaction and the variables, both social and linguistic, that can affect them.
Written by a diverse set of experts in the field, the handbook unifies two major approaches to the study of pragmatics, the Anglo-American and European Continental traditions. Thirty-three chapters cover in detail both pragmatic foundations (e.g. speech act theory, implicature and relevance, deixis) and interfaces with other concepts, including:
• Discourse
• Variation; Culture and interculture
• (Im)politeness; humor
• Learning contexts and teaching
• Technology
This is an ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers of Spanish language and linguistics.
Introduction Part I. Foundations of Pragmatics 1. Implicature and Spanish speakers’ meaning 2. Speech acts research in Spanish 3. Deixis in Spanish research 4. Pragmatics and word order 5. Relevance theory in Spanish pragmatics Part II. Interfaces of Spanish Pragmatics 6. Pragmatics and semantics: A focus on evidentiality 7. The role of pragmatics in shaping linguistic structures 8. Pragmatics and prosody in research on Spanish 9. Pragmatics and sociolinguistics Part III. Pragmatics and Discourse 10. Discourse markers in Spanish 11. Formulaic language in Spanish pragmatics 12. Pragmatics and argumentation 13. Pragmatics and censure in Spanish research 14. Pragmatics and medical discourse in Spanish Part IV. Pragmatic Variation; Culture and Interculture 15. Pragmatic variation across varieties of Spanish 16. Pragmatic variation and forms of address 17. Intercultural communication in a globalized world: the case of Spanish 18. Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics research in Spanish 19. Pragmatics and multilingualism Part V. (Im)politeness in Interaction; Humor 20. Politeness research in the Spanish-speaking world 21. Impoliteness and conflict in Spanish 22. Mitigation in Spanish pragmatics research 23. Pragmatics and humor in Spanish research Part VI. Pragmatics Learning Contexts and Teaching 24. Second language acquisition of pragmatics 25. Advances in L2 Spanish pragmatics classroom instruction 26. Research on pragmatics learning, teaching, and curricula for heritage speakers 27. Pragmatics and teacher education 28. The impact of study abroad on L2 Spanish pragmatics development 29. Pragmatics instruction and assessment in study abroad research Part VII. Pragmatics, Technology, and Research Methods 30. Eye-tracking applications for Spanish pragmatics research 31. Pragmatics and digital discourse in Spanish research 32. Corpus pragmatics in first- and second-language research 33. Research methods for Spanish pragmatics study
