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J. César Félix‐Brasdefer

Arts and Humanities · Indiana University

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Language, Discourse, Communication StrategiesDiscourse Analysis in Language StudiesSpanish Linguistics and Language StudiesEFL/ESL Teaching and LearningLinguistic Variation and Morphology

Publications

107

Citations

2,394

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

24

Publishing since 2002

Research summary
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J. César Félix-Brasdefer studies pragmatics, which is the branch of linguistics concerned with how people use language in real social situations and how meaning depends on context. His work focuses especially on Spanish, comparing how politeness, requests, refusals, and everyday interactions (such as conversations in shops) differ across regions and cultures. He also examines how learners of a second language develop the ability to communicate appropriately in different social settings.

Pragmatics and speech actsSpanish language and its regional varietiesPoliteness and intercultural communicationSecond language learning and competenceService encounter and discourse analysis

Publication activity peaked around 2018 and then declined to little or no output in 2022-2024, with a renewed cluster of publications appearing in 2025.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.2/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 13 publications13182019: 4 publications192020: 5 publications202021: 5 publications212022: 1 publication2223242025: 5 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Multilingual Matters eBooks×2
  • Oxford University Press eBooks×1
  • Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks×1
  • Journal of Spanish Language Teaching×1
  • Cambridge University Press eBooks×1

This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 11, 2026.

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