Susana S. Fernández
List of John Benjamins publications in which Susana S. Fernández is involved.
2024 Chapter 7. Language learning in times of danger: Narratives of confinamiento/confinement in Spanish – English bilingual online conversations during lockdown The Cultural Pragmatics of Danger: Cross-linguistic perspectives, Levisen, Carsten and Zhengdao Ye (eds.), pp. 135–157 | Chapter
In this paper, we contribute to the study of intercultural pragmatics and, more specifically, the “pragmatics of danger” by exploring how adult participants in an online exchange program with focus on Spanish and English learning talk about the corona virus and the impact the pandemic has in… read more
2014 Crítica de File-Muriel & Orozco (2012): Colombian Varieties of Spanish Revue Romane 49:1, pp. 162–166 | Review
2013 Impersonality in Spanish personal pronouns Deixis and Pronouns in Romance Languages, Kragh, Kirsten Jeppesen and Jan Lindschouw (eds.), pp. 87–108 | Article
This article focuses on the impersonal uses of personal pronouns and personal verbal endings in Spanish. I argue that impersonal readings are based on the personal deixis inherent in the pronouns/verbal endings in question and that impersonality constitutes an extension of rather than a breach in… read more
2008 Generalizaciones y evidencialidad en español Revue Romane 43:2, pp. 217–234 | Article
Normally, European languages are considered to express evidentiality only by lexical means, while numerous non-Indo-European languages present specific grammatical items which function as evidential markers. In recent years, numerous studies have pointed out the existence of evidential markers in… read more