Xose A. Padilla García
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xose A. Padilla García is involved.
Articles
2022 La voz como reacción emocional: De qué nos informa la prosodia Spanish in Context 19:1, pp. 72–98 | Article
Nuestra habilidad para entender las emociones de los demás en el habla es clave para conseguir una interacción social exitosa. Estudios procedentes de varias disciplinas apuntan que la prosodia es un elemento fundamental para que este éxito se produzca. Partiendo de la premisa de que la emoción… read more
2013 Cartoons in Spanish press: A pragmatic approach Irony and Humor: From pragmatics to discourse, Ruiz-Gurillo, Leonor and M. Belén Alvarado Ortega (eds.), pp. 141–158 | Article
The aim of this chapter is to contribute to understanding how humor comprehension and production occur, through the analysis of a corpus of cartoons published in Spanish press adopting a pragmatic perspective of analysis. Special attention will be paid to analyzing the way in which the dialogue… read more
2010 3. Being polite through irony Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in functions and contexts, Koike, Dale and Lidia Rodríguez-Alfano (eds.), pp. 55–68 | Chapter
This chapter examines irony and politeness in spoken Spanish utterances, two phenomena that have traditionally been considered contradictory. However, through the application of a pragmatic approach to spontaneous discourse, politeness and irony are found to be very close phenomena and irony can… read more