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Seamos pragmâaticos : introducciâon a la pragmâatica espaنnola
\"Seamos pragmâaticos fills a void in the growing field of Spanish pragmatics. As more courses at the undergraduate level are being added to university Spanish programs, this practical text is specifically tailored for advanced undergraduate and graduate students with little or no background in linguistics. It is also the first of its kind in the U.S. written entirely in Spanish. This innovative book will be accompanied by an ancillary Web site with additional exercises for students\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect in Discourse
This monograph presents a theoretical and empirical study of the Spanish and the Portuguese Present Perfect (PP). The innovative claim is that the two tense forms operate in the field of tension between temporal quantification and temporal reference. It presents the first in-depth study that explicitly takes into account the level of discourse.
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Academic and Professional Discourse Genres in Spanish
In this last chapter of the book, a revision of all findings is presented. Also, a critical analysis of the theoretical framework and the proposed criteria for identifying genres (Chapter 2 and 3) with a comparison with the empirical outcomes obtained through the chapters is offered. Projections and future research niches are outlined.
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Building coherence and cohesion : task-oriented dialogue in English and Spanish
This book examines the resources that speakers employ when building conversations. These resources contribute to overall coherence and cohesion, which speakers create and maintain interactively as they build on each other's contributions. The study is cross-linguistic, drawing on parallel corpora of task-oriented dialogues between dyads of native speakers of English and Spanish. The framework of the investigation is the analysis of speech genres and their staging; the analysis shows that each stage in the dialogues exhibits different thematic, rhetorical, and cohesive relations. The main contributions of the book are: a corpus-based characterization of a spoken genre (task-oriented dialogue); the compilation of a body of analysis tools for generic analysis; application of English-based analyses to Spanish and comparison between the two languages; and a study of the characteristics of each generic stage in task-oriented dialogue.
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Dialogue in Spanish : studies in functions and contexts
This study argues for expectations as a basis for L2 production/interpretation of speech acts and implicatures in talk. It examines the role of expectations in pragmatic expression/interpretation in NS-learner dialogue, and whether expectations can be used to approach L2 study. Two Spanish learners were recorded in individual interactions with an unfamiliar NS while abroad. Analysis reveals that expectations by all participants guided pragmatic expressions/interpretation. The NS was able to adjust expectations to the reality of the talk quickly while the learners delayed but did change to achieve greater communicative efficiency, including variation of speech acts, implicatures and use of pragmatic markers. These observations suggest benefits from examining various expectations to frame pragmatics use/interpretation in natural dialogue.
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Represented Discourse, Resonance and Stance in Joking Interaction in Mexican Spanish
The book provides a new angle for the study of otherwise amply discussed discourse and interactional phenomena. The new perspective consists in addressing the interconnections between resonance, stance, represented discourse and joking in Mexican conversational discourse. In so doing, it contributes to a better understanding of the interplay between collaboration, intersubjectivity and emergence, among other relevant issues. Scholars and advanced students concerned with dialogic syntax theory, stance theory and Spanish, will find the present analysis interesting and innovative. However, the writing and methodology, based on clearly discussed and presented examples from selected conversational excerpts, including graphic representations of linguistic and discourse data, makes the analysis easy to follow also to non-specialists. The book is thus interesting to a broad circle of readers, whether they are concerned with any of the issues dealt with or with their mutual connections, whether they are specialists or not.
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Dialogicity in Written Specialised Genres
Success in written academic communication depends on the presence of elements related to author-reader interactions which supplement propositional information in the text, help readers reach the intended interpretation and shape the author's identity. But is this claim equally valid for online genres? This new environment demands an adaptation of the role of authors, texts, and readers concerning (a) a re-structuring of texts to fit the margins of the screen; (b) a new type of non-linear structure, with no specific reading sequence, which often blurs authorial intention; (c) a new type of reader that does not read in a linear way, but often engages in multi-tasking, is used to processing small chunks of text and often browses without a predictable reading sequence; and (d) a new context of text processing. This chapter addresses these qualities of electronic genres and their implications. For that purpose, 4 different academic texts will be analysed: (1) an academic printed journal uploaded online without variations, Computers in Human Behavior; (2) an online journal, First Monday; (3) several entries of a specialised native discourse on the Internet: Second Life New World Notes; and (4) a popular native online discourse, the technology blog by The Guardian.
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Profiling discourse participants : forms and functions in Spanish conversation and debates
The construction of discourse is a challenging field where many discourse structures and interactional effects remain poorly understood. This analysis provides a systematic explanation for the way in which discourse participants (speaker and hearer) are construed in Spanish through a corpus-driven analysis of informal conversation, TV-debates and parliamentary debates. It deals not only with person deixis, but with the full range of possibilities speakers choose from when profiling their self or their relationship with the interlocutor. This analysis also offers new insights into the operationalization of the concepts of subjectivity and intersubjectivity as tools for the analysis of person reference and genre comparison. The comparative and corpus-driven approach offers methodological tools for genre analysis that can be transposed to other languages and/or genres. The detailed description of three socially highly relevant discourse types from a cognitive-functional perspective makes this book a useful resource not only for pragmatists but also for researchers in political and media discourse.
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Facework in multicodaler spanischer Foren-Kommunikation
In der Computervermittelten Kommunikation kreieren User multicodale Zeichensysteme, indem sie neben verbalen Äußerungen z.B. auch Bilder, Emoticons und Schriftfarbe einsetzen. Facework wurde bislang hauptsächlich anhand des verbalen codes untersucht. Inwiefern bietet jedoch gerade der para- und nonverbale code relevante Informationen für face? Ziel der vorliegenden Studie ist die systematische Untersuchung sowohl des verbalen als auch des para- und nonverbalen codes mit Blick auf politeness und facework. Dazu wird anhand Computervermittelter Kommunikation in spanischsprachigen Unterhaltungsforen die Verhandlung von face analysiert. Im Fokus steht wie User sich selbst darstellen, von anderen kommentiert werden und sich verteidigen. Neben theoretischen Grundlagen zu face(work), Foren-Kommunikation, Multicodalität und spanischen Perspektiven wird eine umfangreiche und innovative Untersuchungsmethodik für Multicodalität in der Höflichkeitsforschung vorgestellt. Anhand der Analyse wird deutlich, welche Zusammenhänge sich aus Multicodalität und facework ergeben. Die Bedeutung von eingesetzten Bildern für face wird nachgewiesen. Das Desiderat, facework im Hinblick auf den nonverbalen code zu untersuchen, wird eingelöst.
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