Date: 18-Aug-2011 From: Laura Bally <publicitypeterlang.com> Subject: Aspects of Spanish Pragmatics: Dumitrescu E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Aspects of Spanish Pragmatics
Series Title: American University Studies - Volume 35
Published: 2011
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
http://www.peterlang.com
Author: Domnita Dumitrescu
Hardback: ISBN: 9781433104435 Pages: 268 Price: U.S. $ 80.95
Hardback: ISBN: 9781433104435 Pages: 268 Price: U.K. £ 47.00
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Abstract:
This collection of essays on Spanish pragmatics can be understood in its broadest sense in Iacob L. Mey's words as "the study of the conditions of human language use in a societal context." The essays, which can be read independently from one another, revolve around three key areas within the Anglo-American school of pragmatics: speech acts, conversation, and politeness as sociocultural manifestations of communication.
The first part of the book emphasizes the study of politeness in different Spanish-speaking communities, paying special attention to the realization of polite speech acts and their cross-cultural and cross-linguistic implications, as well as the face-work that interlocutors conduct in casual conversations and other communicative settings. The second part expands the topic of politeness strategies to the study of new contexts (such as echo questions and conversational repairs) and addresses other language phenomena that can be best explored from a pragmalinguistic perspective, such as evidentiality, mitigation, contrastive emphasis, and topicality and discourse salience.
The examples (with the exception of a few literary quotes) proceed from naturally occurring data or were collected through questionnaires, and represent a wide range of colloquial "Spanishes," from Peninsular to Latin American, from monolingual to bilingual, and from native to heritage to second language learners' varieties.
The empirical nature of Aspects of Spanish Pragmatics will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in the use of Spanish for real-life communicative interactions, as well as in the topic of intercultural communication and the teaching of authentic language to students of Spanish in the United States.
Domnita Dumitrescu received her PhD from the University of Southern California. She is Professor of Spanish Linguistics in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at California State University, Los Angeles. Her research interests are Spanish pragmatics and sociolinguistics, Spanish in the United States, contact phenomena between Spanish and English in the United States, and contrastive analysis of Spanish and Romanian at different levels. She has published more than one hundred studies in her areas of expertise, which have appeared in numerous scholarly publications in Europe, Latin America, and the United States, and she has translated into Romanian several major literary works by Spanish authors.
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
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