The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics

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 • TechnologyThis is an ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers of Spanish language and linguistics.