13. Quarrelling about metaphors of love: A pragmatic approach

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Preface xi
5. PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: THE PRAGMATICS OF SPANISH TO DATE
6. 1. Spanish pragmatics: Whence, where, whither? 3
7. 2. The pragmatics of Spanish beyond Spain 15
8. PART TWO: PRAGMATICS AND OTHER DISCIPLINES
9. Pragmatics and grammar
10. 3. The Spanish subjunctive: Procedural semantics and pragmatic inference 35
11. 4. Conditional: A grammaticalised marker of politeness in Spanish 57
12. Pragmatics and applied linguistics
13. 5. Role-plays and the assessment of oral proficiency in Spanish 79
14. 6. Written pedagogic feedback and linguistic politeness 99
15. Pragmatics and cross and inter-cultural communication
16. 7. Displaying closeness and respectful distance in Montevidean and Quiteño service encounters 121
17. 8. Speaking Spanish with Zapotec meaning. Requests and promises in intercultural communication in Oaxaca, Mexico 157
18. PART THREE: COMMON TOPICS IN PRAGMATICS
19. Discourse markers
20. 9. Procedural constraints on context selection: Siempre as a discourse marker 179
21. 10. Discourse markers in the construction of the text, the activity, and the social relations: Evidence from courtroom discourse 203
22. Politeness
23. 11. Coercion and cooperation: A case study of Argentinean reprimands and responses to reprimands 231
24. 12. Politeness as ‘face’ enhancement: An analysis of Spanish conversations between friends and family 265
25. Metaphor
26. 13. Quarrelling about metaphors of love: A pragmatic approach 287
27. Humour
28. 14. Pragmatic of humorous strategies in El club de la comedia 319
29. PART FOUR: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATED PRAGMATIC THEORY
30. 15. Norms and principles. Putting social and cognitive pragmatics together 347
31. Contributors 373
32. Index 379