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> <p>Introduction<i> </i><strong>Part I. Foundations of Pragmatics </strong>1.<b> </b>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 <b>Part II. Interfaces of Spanish Pragmatics </b>6. Pragmatics and semantics: A focus on evidentiality 7. The role of pragmatics in shaping linguistic structures<i> </i>8. Pragmatics and prosody in research on Spanish 9. Pragmatics and sociolinguistics <b>Part III. Pragmatics and Discourse </b>10.<b> </b>Discourse markers in Spanish 11.<b> </b>Formulaic language in Spanish pragmatics 12. Pragmatics and argumentation 13.<b> </b>Pragmatics and censure in Spanish research 14. Pragmatics and medical discourse in Spanish <b>Part IV. Pragmatic Variation; Culture and Interculture </b>15.<b> </b>Pragmatic variation across varieties of Spanish 16.<b> </b>Pragmatic variation and forms of address 17. Intercultural communication in a globalized world: the case of Spanish 18.<b> </b>Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics research in Spanish 19. Pragmatics and multilingualism <b>Part V. (Im)politeness in Interaction; Humor </b>20. Politeness research in the Spanish-speaking world 21.<b> </b>Impoliteness and conflict in Spanish 22.<b> </b>Mitigation in Spanish pragmatics research 23. Pragmatics and humor in Spanish research <b>Part VI.</b><i> </i><b>Pragmatics Learning Contexts and Teaching </b>24.<b> </b>Second language acquisition of pragmatics 25. Advances in L2 Spanish pragmatics classroom instruction 26.<b> </b>Research on pragmatics learning, teaching, and curricula for heritage speakers 27. Pragmatics and teacher education 28.<b> </b>The impact of study abroad on L2 Spanish pragmatics development 29. Pragmatics instruction and assessment in study abroad research <b>Part VII. Pragmatics, Technology, and Research Methods </b>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</p>