Research on 'heritage/community language education'(HCLE) has a relatively recent
trajectory, but it has generated a large number of scholarly publications, particularly in …

This chapter reviews existing studies on pragmatics and Spanish heritage speakers (HSs)
and proposes new avenues for research in this area. First, we examine studies that have …

Due to the tremendous growth of the Latinx population in the United States over the last few
decades, the country is now home to the second-largest number of Spanish speakers in the …

This paper studies the pragmatic competence of US heritage learners of Spanish in an
attempt to determine (a) the degree of pragmatic transfer from English to Spanish …

Sociolinguistics are of paramount importance in heritage language (HL) education because
the macro-sociolinguistic context shapes HL speakers' language experiences, knowledge …

1 Introducción Este capítulo analiza la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de la pragmática por
parte de aprendices del español como segunda lengua (L2). Como señalan Félix-Brasdefer …

Pragmatics focuses on the meaning of utterances in their physical, social, and linguistic
context and includes phenomena such as speech acts, politeness expressions, humor, and …

El objetivo de este capítulo es ofrecer una descripción general de los enfoques, métodos y
resultados de las investigaciones centradas en aspectos pragmáticos del español como …

This case study examines the pragmatic development of address forms of a US-based
Spanish heritage speaker of Mexican descent, Juan, during an 11-week abroad program in …

El presente estudio analiza la realización de peticiones de 30 alumnos universitarios que
han adquirido el español como lengua de herencia y compara sus estrategias de cortesía …