Welcome to the Fascinating World of Pragmatics/Pragmática!
Welcome to my Pragmatics website / Bienvenido/a a mi página de Pragmática. This website is designed to support researchers, educators, and students in exploring key concepts in Pragmatics, Discourse, and Second Language Pragmatics Pedagogy. It provides comprehensive information on the scope of Pragmatics and related topics, including speech acts, deixis, meaning (implicature and explicature), discourse, and politeness and impoliteness.
Each section of the site offers:
- Research-based explanations of core concepts
- Examples accompanied by audio recordings and dialogue transcripts
- Insights into metapragmatic perceptions of what is considered polite or impolite behavior
Our goal is to make the study of Pragmatics accessible and engaging through evidence-based resources and practical examples.
Speech Acts: This page describes different speech acts in Spanish and English. It includes a taxonomy of the strategies for each speech act, examples, and audios of speech acts in different regions of Spanish and the United States (in-progress).
Politeness: This includes definitions, examples, a bibliography, and audios of polite and impolite behavior. Under Politeness1 you can listen to audios with metapragamatic perceptions of polite and impolite behavior among speakers of different varieties of Spanish.
Pragmatic Variation: You will find resaerch on pragmatic variation across varieties of Spanish, including a bibliography with the regions analyzed and contrasted so far. Information about pluricentric languages across varieties of Spanish, English, and other languages is in progress. Make sure to check the section on Voces Hispanas with audios that feature cultural aspects from different regions in Spain and Latin America. If you have published a study on regional pragmatic variation in one or more varities of Spanish, please contact me with the bibliographical information to add it to this page.
Performing L2 Pragmatics:This section features information about effective ways of performing speech acts in different languages. It includes resources for researchers, students, and educators interested in learning about second language pragmatics
Spanish Pragmatics. Companion website of Pragmática del Español: contexto, uso y variación. You will find complementary information for each chapter based on existing research, examples, audios, videos, a bibliography, and an online glossary. There is a corpus with data taken from natural conversations, service encounter interactions, and speech acts across different varieties of Spanish in Latin America and Spain.
The data were collected by the owner of this website and if used for research or pedagogical purposes, the website should be cited.
How to cite this website: If you use information and data from this website for research or teaching purposes, please cite as follows: Félix-Brasdefer, J. César. Pragmatics at Indiana University. Date retrieved from https://pragmatics.indiana.edu
If you have any questions about this website, feel free to contact me at cfelixbr@iu.edu