Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics : Foundations and Interfaces

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.

Dale A. Koike is Professor of Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.

J. César Félix-Brásdefer is Professor of Hispanic Linguistics, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.