22.3309, Books: Applied Ling/Discourse Analysis/Pragmatics/Socioling: Dumitrescu

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Date: 18-Aug-2011
From: Laura Bally [publicity at peterlang.com]
Subject: Aspects of Spanish Pragmatics: Dumitrescu

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Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:09:11
From: Laura Bally [publicity at peterlang.com]
Subject: Aspects of Spanish Pragmatics: Dumitrescu

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Title: Aspects of Spanish Pragmatics 
Series Title: American University Studies - Volume 35  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/?310443 

Author: Domnita Dumitrescu

Hardback: ISBN:  9781433104435 Pages: 268 Price: U.S. $ 80.95
Hardback: ISBN:  9781433104435 Pages: 268 Price: U.K. £ 47.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781433104435 Pages: 268 Price: Europe EURO 52.23 Comment: for Germany EURO 55.90, for Austria EURO 57.50 (incl. VAT)

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

Subject Language(s): Spanish (spa)

Written In: English  (eng)

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