Current trends in the pragmatics of Spanish / edited by Rosina Marquez Reiter, Maria Elena Placencia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Márquez-Reiter, Rosina.

Placencia, María E. (María Elena)

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 123.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser., v. 123

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spanish language--Discourse analysis.

Spanish language.

Spanish language--Spoken Spanish.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 381 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins Pub., 2004.

Summary:

Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish provides the reader with a representative spectrum of current research in the most dynamic areas of the pragmatics of Spanish. It brings together a collection of academic essays written by well-established as well as emerging voices in Hispanic pragmatics.

Contents:

Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

References

I. The pragmatics of Spanish to date

Spanish pragmatics

The pragmatics of Spanish beyond Spain

Notes

II. Pragmatics and other disciplines

Pragmatics and grammar

The Spanish subjunctive

1. Introduction

2. Theoretical background

3. The subjunctive in relative clauses in extensional contexts

4. Double mood selection

5. Conclusions

The Conditional

2. Theoretical considerations

3. Polite uses of the Conditional in specific verb types

3.1. Desiderative verbs

3.2. Modal verbs

3.3. Performative verbs

3.4. Transactional-situation verbs

3.5. Summary of verbs used in the Conditional conveying politeness

3.6. Types of verbs used in the Conditional

4. Conclusion

Pragmatics and applied linguistics

Role-plays and the assessment of oral proficiency in Spanish

2. Role-plays and the assessment of oral proficiency

3. Background

4. The lexical range of candidates and examiners

5. Role expectations by candidates and examiners

Extract 1

6. Examiner-candidate co-construction of interaction

Extract 2

Extract 3

7. Conclusions

Appendix

Written pedagogic feedback and linguistic politeness

1. Aims and background

2. Data and methodology

3. Analysis

3.1. Presentational strategy

3.2. Self-justification as face-protection

3.3. Presupposition as face protection: The case of advice

3.4. Defocusing as face protection

Pragmatics and cross- and inter-cultural communication.

Displaying closeness and respectful distance in Montevidean and Quiteño service encounters

1. Introduction and aims

2. Background

3. Methodology

4. The results

4.1. The overall organisation of the interaction

4.2. Type and frequency of selling strategies

4.3. The stylistic (in)formality of the interactions

Speaking Spanish with Zapotec meaning

2. The study

3. The analysis

Extract 4

Extract 5

Extract 6

III. Common topics in pragmatics

Discourse markers

Procedural constraints on context selection

2. Discourse markers, coherence, and relevance

2.1. The nature of discourse markers

2.2. Coherence-based approaches to the study of discourse markers

2.3. Relevance-based approaches to the study of discourse markers

3. Procedural meaning

4. Constraints on context selection: The case of siempre

Discourse markers in the construction of the text, the activity, and the social relations

2. Characterisation of discourse markers

3. The question of meaning and function

4. Discourse markers in a non-typical social setting: ahora, bueno, mire, and y in courtroom interactions

5. Discourse markers in a non-interactional genre: The closing argument

5.1. Systems versus the lifeworld

5.2. Heterogeneity

Extract 7

5.3. Heteroglossia

Extract 8

Extract 9

Extract 10

5.4. Two sets of features

5.5. Expressions of the voice of the legal system

A. Vocabulary and terms of address

B. Written discourse features

C. Audience-involvement resources.

5.6. Expressions of the voice of the lifeworld

6. Conclusion

Note

Politeness

Coercion and cooperation

2. Theoretical framework

3. Method

3.1. Subjects

3.2. Tasks

3.3. Data analysis

4. Description and analysis

4.1. Reprimanding

4.2. Responding to a reprimand

Appendix A

Appendix B

Abbreviations

Politeness as face enhancement

2. Theoretical framework and presuppositions

3. The functions of politeness

4. The analysis

Transcription conventions

Metaphor

Quarrelling about metaphors of love

2. Meaning in context: A multidisciplinary approach

2.1. Context: A multilayered, dynamic view

2.2. Metapragmatics and metaphor

3. Conceptual metaphors

3.1. Presupposed conceptualisations of love

4. Emotion and self-presentation

4.1. Blanca and Andrés, face to face

4.2. Footing and strategies

4.3. Verbal directness and physiological reactions

5. Commitment and non-commitment

6. Final remarks

Humour

Pragmatics of humorous strategies in El club de la comedia

2. Relevance theory, inference, and humorous effects

2.1. Predicting inferences

2.2. The multiple graded / single covert interface

2.3. Clashing assumptions

3. El club de la comedia: Beyond the joke and into the monologue

3.1. Getting one's money's worth

3.2. Humorous strategies in ECC

4. Concluding remarks

IV. Towards an integrated pragmatic theory

Norms and principles

2. Two ways of doing pragmatics

2.1. Socio-cultural pragmatics

2.2. Cognitive pragmatics

3. A single theory?.

4. A way to integration

4.1. A modular approach

4.2. Different abilities, different systems

4.3. Mechanisms and representations

5. Overview of an integrated model

5.1. The inference system

5.2. The social system

5.3. Integrating the subcomponents

6. Some consequences

7. Modelling the mind: The lost connection

8. Conclusion

Contributors

Index

The Pragmatics &amp

Beyond New Series.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612160318

9781282160316

1282160311

9789027295293

9027295298

OCLC:

70773955