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Speech act research in Spanish

Placencia, Maria Elena and Powell, H. (2020) Speech act research in Spanish. In: Koike, D.A. and Félix-Brasdefer, J.C. (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics: Foundations and Interfaces. London, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138316461.

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Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of research on speech acts in Spanish in the past 15 years. It starts with a brief presentation of the key tenets of Speech Act Theory as conceived by Austin (1962) and Searle (1969, 1975, 1976), followed by a consideration of the limitations of the theory from a pragmatics perspective. In the second part, an indicative overview of speech acts research in Spanish is offered, with a focus on sociopragmatics, pragmalinguistics, cross-linguistic/cultural, and variational pragmatics studies. General trends are first outlined along various classificatory dimensions, followed by a consideration of studies according to Searle’s (1976) illocutionary acts taxonomy. The chapter concludes with reflections on future research prospects in this vibrant area.

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Item Type: Book Section
Keyword(s) / Subject(s): SPEECH ACTS, SPANISH, SPEECH ACT RESEARCH, SPEECH ACT THEORY, VARIATIONAL PRAGMATICS, CROSS-CULTURAL PRAGMATICS, INTERNET PRAGMATICS
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
Depositing User: Maria Elena Placencia
Date Deposited: 21 Jan 2021 09:41
Last Modified: 09 Aug 2023 12:48
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/31811

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