Spanish Pragmatics

ROSINA M RQUEZ REITER is Senior Lecturer in Spanish Language and Linguistics at the University of Surrey, UK, where she teaches and researches (Spanish) sociopragmatics and sociolinguistics. Her current research interests include sociopragmatic variation with particular reference to Spanish as well as pragmatics in general, cross- and inter-cultural communication as well as politeness theory. She is the author of Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay. MAR A ELENA PLACENCIA is Lecturer in Spanish and Linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Her main areas

• Introduction Speech Act Theory: Examining Language at the Utterance Level Conversation Analysis: Examining Stretches of Talk Linguistic Politeness Phenomena Sociopragmatic Variation Research Methods in Sociopragmatics References Index

'What is outstanding about this book is the way it illustrates a range of issues in speech act theory, conversation analysis and politeness theory with lively, real-world examples taken from a range of varieties of Spanish while providing a comprehensive overview of the contribution of Hispanists to this field of linguistics.' - Miranda Stewart, University of Strathclyde, UK