Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics

<p><em>The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics</em> 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. </p><p>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:</p><p>• Discourse </p><p>• Variation; Culture and interculture </p><p>• (Im)politeness; humor </p><p>• Learning contexts and teaching </p><p>• Technology</p><p>This is an ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers of Spanish language and linguistics. </p>