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• Schneider, K. P. & J. C. Félix-Brasdefer (forthcoming/2022). Pragmatic variation across national varieties of pluricentric languages. In Andreas H. Jucker and Heiko Hausendorf (eds.), Pragmatics of Space. Handbooks of Pragmatics, vol 14. Berlin/Boston: Mouton De Gruyter.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. César. (2021). Pragmatic variation across varieties of Spanish. In Dale A. Koike & J. César Félix-Brasdefer (eds.), The Routledge handbook of Spanish pragmatics (pp. 269–287). Oxford & New York: Routledge.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2021). Pragmatic competence and speech-act research in second language pragmatics. In J. C. Félix-Brasdefer & Rachel L. Shively (Eds.), New Directions in Second Language Pragmatics (pp 11-26). Berlin/Boston, MA, US. Mouton de Gruyter.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. & M. DiBartolomeo.  (2021). Developing advanced pragmatic competence in Spanish. In P. Malovh & M. Menke (Eds.), Advancedness in Second Language Spanish: Definitions, Challenges and Possibilities (pp. 323-348). Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. & R. Márquez Reiter. (2021). Service encounter discourse. In M. Haugh, D. Kádár, & M. Terkourafi (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics (pp. 496-519). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Mugford, G., & Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2021). Politeness research in the Spanish-speaking world. In D. Koike & J. C. Félix-Brasdefer (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics (pp. 353-369). Oxford & New York: Routledge.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2020). Pragmatic transfer. In K. P. Schneider & Elly Infantidou (Eds.), Developmental and Clinical Pragmatics (pp. 361-391). Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. & Yates, A. (2020). Regional pragmatic variation in small shops in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, & Seville, Spain. In Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. & M. E. Placencia (eds.), Pragmatic Variation in Service Encounter Interactions across the Spanish-Speaking World (pp. 15-34). Oxford/New York: Routledge Press.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2020). La comunicación intercultural. In V. Escandell Vidal, Amenós Pons & Ahern (Eds.), Manual de pragmática (pp. 742-755). Barcelona: Akal.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2020). Los rechazos. In M. E. Placencia & Joxé Padilla. (Eds.), Guía práctica de pragmática del español (pp. 18-28). London/New York: Routledge.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2019). Speech acts in interaction: Negotiating joint action in a second language. In N. Taguchi (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Pragmatics (pp. 17-30) London: Routledge.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2019). El componente pragmático. In F. Jiménez Calderón & A. Sánchez Rufat Sánchez (Eds.), Manual de formación para profesores de ELE (pp. 189-209). Madrid: SGEL.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2018). Role plays. In A. Jucker, K. Schneider, & W.Wolfram (Eds.), Methods in Pragmatics. (pp. 305-332). Germany: Mouton De Gruyter.
• Felix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2017). Service encounters. In B. Vine (ed). The Routledge Handbook of Language in the Workplace (pp. 162-174). Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2017). The intercultural speaker abroad. In R. Giora & M. Haugh (Eds.), Papers in Honor of Istvan Kecskes (pp. 353-370). Mouton de Gruyter.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2017). Interlanguage pragmatics. In Y. Huang (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Pragmatics (pp. 416-434). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. & M. Hasler-Barker. (2017). Elicited data. In A. Barron (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics (pp. 27-40). Germany: Mouton De Gruyter.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. & Mugford, G. (2017): (Im)Politeness: Learning and teaching. In J. Culpeper & M. Haugh (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistics (Im)Politeness (pp. 489-516). Baskingstoke, UK: Palgrave/McMillan.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J.C. & McKinnon, S. (2017). Perceptions of impolite behavior in study abroad contexts and the teaching of impoliteness in L2 Spanish. Journal of Spanish Language Teaching, vol. 3(2), 99-113.
• Johns, A. & Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2015). Linguistic politeness and pragmatic variation in request production in Dakar French. Journal of Politeness Research.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. & Hasler Barker, Maria (2015). Complimenting in Spanish in a short-term study abroad context. System 48, 75-85.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. & Koike, D. (2014). Perspectives on Spanish SLA from Pragmatics and Discourse. Handbook of Hispanic Applied Linguistics, Manel Lacorte (ed.) (pp. 25-43). New York: Routledge.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2014). Speech act sequences. Handbook of Pragmatics of Discourse, Vol. 3, K. Schneider & A. Barron (eds.) (pp. 323-352). Germany: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2013). Refusing in L2 Spanish: The effects of the context of learning during a short-term study abroad program. In O. Martí Andándiz and P. Salazar-Campillo (eds) Refusals in Instructional Contexts and Beyond (147-173). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. & . Cohen. (2012). Teaching pragmatics in the foreign language classroom: Grammar as a Communicative Resource. Hispania 95(4), 650-669.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2012). Pragmatic variation by gender in market service encounters in Mexico. In J. C. Félix-Brasdefer & D. Koike (eds.), Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological Issues. Series: IMPACT. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2012). E-mail requests to faculty: E-politeness and internal modification. In M. Economidou-Kogetsidis & H. Woodfield (eds.), Interlanguage Request Modification (pp. 87-118). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2012). Email openings and closings: Pragmalinguistic and gender variation in learner-instructor cyber consultations. In E. Alcón Soler & M. Safont Jordá (eds.), Language Learners’ Discourse across L2 Instructional Settings (pp. 223-248). New York: Rodopi.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. & M. Barker-Hasler. (2012). Compliments and compliment responses: From empirical evidence to pedagogical application. In Maria Leire Ruiz de Zarobe (Ed.), Speech Acts and Politeness across Languages and Cultures (pp. 241-273). Bern: Peter Lang.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2012). Actos de habla (“Speech acts”). In S. de los Heros & M. Niño-Murcia (eds.). Fundamentos y modelos del estudio pragmático y sociopragmático del español (pp. 59-81).Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2011). Cortesía, prosodia y variación pragmática en las peticiones de estudiantes universitarios mexicanos y dominicanos [“Politeness, prosody and pragmatic variation in requests from Mexican and Dominican college students”]. In C. García Fernández & Maria Elena Placencia (eds.). Iberoamericana.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2010). Intra-lingual pragmatic variation in Mexico City and San José, Costa Rica: A focus on regional differences in female requests. Journal of Pragmatics 42(11), 2992-3011.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2010). Data collection methods in speech act performance: DCTs, role plays, and verbal reports. In E. Usó Juán and A. Martínez-Flor (eds), Speech act performance: Theoretical, Empirical, and methodological issues (pp. 41-56). John Benjamins Publishing.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C., & Bardovi-Harlig, (2010). “I’m sorry. Can I think about it?” The negotiation of refusals in academic and non-academic contexts.In D. Tatsuki & N. Houck (Eds.), Pragmatics: Teaching Speech Acts. (pp. 163-180). Alexandria, VA: TESOL.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2009). Pragmatic variation across Spanish(es): Requesting in Mexican, Costa Rican, and Dominican Spanish. Intercultural Pragmatics, 6(4), 473-515.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2009). El estado de la cuestión sobre el discurso de la (des)cortesía y la imagen social en México: Perspectivas teóricas y metodológicas [State of the art on the discourse of (im)politeness and face in Mexico: Theoretical and methodological perspectives]. In L. Rodríguez Alfano (ed.), La (des)cortesía y la imagen social en México: Estudios semióticos-discursivos desde varios enfoques analíticos (pp. 15-45). Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey, México.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2009). Dispreferred responses in interlanguage pragmatics: Refusal sequences in learner-native speaker interactions. Applied Language Learning, Vol. 19 (1-2), 1-27.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. & Lavin, E. (2009). Grammar and turn expansion in second language conversations. In J. Collentine, M. García, B. Lafford, & F. Marcos Marín (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 11th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 53-67). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Proceedings Project. (Available online).
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2008). Pedagogical intervention and the development of pragmatic competence in learning Spanish as a foreign language. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 16(1), 47-82.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2008). Perceptions of refusals to invitations: Exploring the minds of foreign language learners. Language Awareness,17(3), 195-211.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2008). Sociopragmatic variation: Dispreferred responses in Mexican and Dominican Spanish. Journal of Politeness Research, 4(1), 81-110.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2008). Teaching Spanish pragmatics in the classroom: Explicit instruction of mitigation. Hispania, 91(2), 477-492.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2008). Cuando estudie en el extranjero, voy a vivir con una familia hispana. ¿Qué necesito saber sobre la cortesía? [When I study abroad, I will live with a Hispanic family. What do I need to know about politeness?] (pp. 95-107). In J. Ewald and A. Edstrom (Eds.), El español a través de la lingüística: Preguntas y respuestas. Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J.C. (2007). Natural speech vs. elicited data: A comparison of natural and role play requests in Mexican Spanish./Spanish in Context,/ 4(2): 159-185
• Félix-Brasdefer, J.C. (2007). Pragmatic development in the Spanish as a FL classroom: A cross-sectional study of learner requests/. Intercultural Pragmatics/, 4:2: 253-286
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2006). Speech act perception in interlanguage pragmatics: Exploring the minds of foreign language learners. /LAUD paper 652/. Duisburg/Essen: Linguistic Agency, Universitaet Duisburg-Essen.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2006). Linguistic politeness in Mexico: Refusal strategies among male speakers of Mexican Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics 38(12): 2158-2187.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2006). Teaching the negotiation of multi-turn speech acts. Using conversation-analytic tools to teach pragmatics in the classroom. In K. Bardovi-Harlig, C. Félix-Brasdefer, & A. Omar (Eds.), Pragmatics and Language Learning, Vol. 11 (pp. 165-197). National Foreign Language Resource Center. University of Hawai’i at Manoa.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2006). The acquisition of functional categories in early Spanish: Evidence from the strong continuity hypothesis. Indiana University on line Working Papers, Vol. 6 (pp. 1-33). Available online at: https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/iulcwp/article/view/25791/31521
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2006). Pragmatic and textual functions of o sea: Evidence from MexicanSpanish. In T. Face & C. Klee (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 8th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium (pp. 191-203). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Prpceedings Project. (Available on line at: http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/8/index.html)
• Greenslade, T. & Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2006). Error correction and learner perceptions in L2 Spanish writing. Conference . In C. Klee & T. Face (Eds.), Selected Proceedings of the 7 th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese as First and Second Languages (pp. 185-194). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Prpceedings Project. (Available on line at: http://www.lingref.com/cpp/casp/7/index.html)
• Félix-Brasdefer, J.C. (2005). Métodos de recolección de actos de habla: Peticiones en el discurso natural y simulado de hablantes mexicanos. In J. Murillo Medrano (ed.), Actas del II Coloquio Internacional del Programa EDICE (pp. 221-245). Estocolmo-Costa Rica: Programa EDICE-Universidad de Costa Rica. ISBN 91-974521-2-2, URN:NBN:se-2006-2. (Available online at: Google Books)
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2005). Indirectness and politeness in Mexican Requests. In D. Eddington (ed.), Selected Proceedings of the 7th Hispanic Linguistic Symposium (pp. 66-78). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press. Paper available on-line at http://www.lingref.com/cpp/hls/7/
• Félix-Brasdefer, J.C. (2004) Interlanguage Refusals: Linguistic Politeness and Length of Residence in the Target Community. Language Learning, 54(4), 587-653.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J.C. (2004). La mitigación en el discurso oral de mexicanos y aprendices de español como lengua extranjera. In D. Bravo and A. Briz (Eds.), Pragmática sociocultural. Estudios sobre el discurso en cortesía en español (pp. 285-299). Spain: Ariel.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J.C. (2003). Validity in data collection methods in pragmatics research. In P. Kempchinsky and C. E. Piñeros (Eds.), Theory, practice, and acquisition. Papers from the 6th Hispanic Linguistics Symposium and the 5th Conference on the Acquisition of Spanish and Portuguese (pp. 239-257). Somerville, MA: Cascadilla Press.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J.C. (2003) Declining an invitation: A Cross-Cultural Study of Pragmatic Strategies in Latin American Spanish and American English. Multilingua, 22(3): 225-255.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J.C. (2000). Patrones léxico-gramaticales en la interpretación textual: Evidencia de un poema [Lexical gramatical patterns in textual interpretation: Evidence from a poem]. In M.C. Castro & L.A. Hernández (eds.), Segundo Congreso Nacional sobre Textos Académicos: Vol. 2, (pp. 105-121). Tlaxcala, México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala.

Encyclopedia Entries

• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2016). Actos de habla [Speech acts]. In J. Gutiérrez-Rexach (ed.), Enciclopedia de lingüística hispánica [Encyclopedia of Hispanic  Linguistics] (vol 2, pp. 201-212). London/New York: Routledge.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2013). Interlanguage pragmatics. In C. Chapelle (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (pp. 1-7). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2013). Politeness. In P. Robinson (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition (pp. 493-497). New York: Routledge.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. Speech acts. (2013). In P. Robinson (ed.), The Routledge Encyclopedia of Second Language Acquisition (pp. 604-608). New York: Routledge.

Book Reviews

• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2015). Review of the book Assessing Second Language Pragmatics by S. Ross & G.Kasper. Journal of Pragmatics 84, 83-85.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2015). Review of the book Intercultural Pragmatics by I. Kecskes. Multilingua 34(4), 611-615.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2013). Review of the book The Pragmatics of Requests and Apologies: Developmental Patterns of Mexican Students by E. Flores-Salgado. Intercultural Pragmatics 10(3), 521-526.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2012). Review of the book On Apologising in Negative and Positive Politeness Cultures by E. Ogiermann. Journal of Sociolinguistics 16, 124-127.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2010). Variational Pragmatics: A focus on regional varieties in pluricentric languages. (Eds. K. Schneider & A. Barron, 2008). Review published in Multilingua 29, 119-123.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2010). Acknowledgments: Structure and Phraseology of Gratitude in PhD Dissertations. Review published in Journal of Pragmatics.
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2009). Learning how to request in an instructed language learning context. Linguistic Insights. Studies in Langauge and Communication. Vol. 68. Peter Lang AG. Year: 2008 (Published in the Linguist List).
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2006). Spanish Pragmatics by Rosina Márquez-Reiter & María Elena Placencia (2005). Palgrave, Macmillan. Available in the Linguist List on line at https://linguistlist.org/issues/17.118/ 
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (2004). Gender and politeness by Sara Mills (2003). Cambridge University Press. http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-262.html
• Félix-Brasdefer, J. C. (with T. Greenslade). (2003). A workbook in everyday Spanish (2003) by E. Santamaría Iglesias. http://www.linguistlist.org/issues/14/14-1890.html
• J.C. Félix-Brasdefer (2003). Plazas. Spanish textbook for beginning Spanish. Review requested by Prentice Hall. (Book chapter)