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List of John Benjamins publications for which someone affiliated with Texas A&M University plays a role.

Subjects Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights

Edited by María Elena Placencia & Zohreh R. Eslami

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 313] 2020. | edited volume
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics

Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas

Edited by María Irene Moyna & Susana Rivera-Mills

[Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 10] 2016. x, 352 pp. | edited volume
Subjects Morphology | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Compound Words in Spanish: Theory and history

María Irene Moyna

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 316] 2011. xxv, 451 pp. | monograph
Subjects Historical linguistics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Features and Interfaces in Romance: Essays in honor of Heles Contreras

Edited by Julia Herschensohn, Enrique Mallén & Karen Zagona

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 222] 2001. xiv, 302 pp. | edited volume
Subjects Generative linguistics | Romance linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Subjects Afro-Asiatic languages | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Moyna, María Irene & Pablo E. Requena 2024 Tracing the emergence of the voseo/tuteo semantic split in Río de la Plata second person subjunctives: The role of child language acquisition
Keywords  voseo | tuteo | Rioplatense Spanish | subjunctive | diachronic change | language acquisition | language variation
McKinnon, Sean & Vanessa Elias 2024 Critical language awareness, heritage learners, and (non)dynamic language ideologies in a Spanish in the US course
Keywords critical language awareness | language ideologies | Spanish as a heritage language | Spanish in the US
Derakhshan, Ali, Zohreh R. Eslami & Farzaneh Shakki 2023 Comparing compliments in Face-to-Face vs. online interactions among Iranian speakers of Persian
Pragmatics and Society 15:2pp. 320–344 | article
Keywords compliments | Face-To-Face interactions | Facebook | online interactions | Persian speakers | formulaic patterns
Moyna, María Irene & Teresa Blumenthal 2023 Story, style, and structure: The second person in early Uruguayan children’s literature
Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:2pp. 217–244 | article
Keywords address | children’s literature | language representation | Uruguayan Spanish | voseo
Peres, S. Camille, Ranjana K. Mehta & Robin R. Murphy 2024 Water, lava, and wind: Lessons learned for field robotics and human factors research during real world disasters
Interaction Studies 24:3pp. 335–361 | article
Keywords human-robotic interaction | field studies | small uncrewed aerial systems
Liu, Bo & Jie Zhang 2024 《中文听说读写》的语法教学: 一项基于《国际中文教育中文水平等级标准》“语法大纲”的分析
Keywords 《国际中文教育中文水平等级标准》 | 《中文听说读写》 | 语法大纲 | 语法教学 | Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education | Integrated Chinese | Grammar Guidelines | grammar instruction
Sanz-Sánchez, Israel & María Irene Moyna 2022 Children as agents of language change: Diachronic evidence from Latin American Spanish phonology
Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:3pp. 327–374 | article
Keywords child language acquisition | language change | Spanish | historical sociolinguistics | sibilants
Hillman, Sara, Keith M. Graham & Zohreh R. Eslami 2021 EMI and the international branch campus: Examining language ideologies, policies, and practices
Keywords transnational higher education | EMI | ethnography of language planning and policy | translanguaging | Qatar
Graham, Keith M., Haemin Kim, Yunkyeong Choi & Zohreh R. Eslami 2021 CLIL as a balance for female–male differences?: The effect of CLIL on student writing outcomes
Keywords Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) | gender differences | writing | elementary education | English as a foreign language
Morin, Regina & Damián Robles 2020 The differing behavior of loanwords in the Spanish of technology and of fashion and beauty
In: Hispanic Linguistics: Current Issues and New Directions, Morales-Front, Alfonso, Michael J. Ferreira, Ronald P. Leow & Cristina Sanz (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 26] pp. 265–284
Keywords technology | fashion | loanwords | immediate and ultimate etymon | integration | metalinguistic commentary
Attardo, Salvatore 2020 Humor
In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 23] pp. 155–183
Eslami, Zohreh R., Lu Yang & Chang Qian 2020 A comparative study of compliment responses among Chinese Renren users and American Facebook users
In: Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights, Placencia, María Elena & Zohreh R. Eslami (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 313] pp. 21–48
Keywords compliment responses | social networking sites | Facebook | Renren | globalization | homogenization | discourse practices | cross-cultural communication | Chinese | American English
Placencia, María Elena & Zohreh R. Eslami 2020 Introduction
Abba, Katherine A., R. Malatesha Joshi & Xuejun Ryan Ji 2019 Analyzing writing performance of L1, L2, and Generation 1.5 community college students through Coh-Metrix
Written Language & Literacy 22:1pp. 67–94 | article
Keywords Coh-Metrix | community college | generation 1.5 | L2 | writing
Graham, Keith M. & Zohreh R. Eslami 2019 Attitudes toward EMI in East Asia and the Gulf: A systematic review
Keywords English-medium instruction | higher education | attitudes | East Asia | Arab/Persian Gulf | systematic review
Moyna, María Irene 2018 The history of concatenative compounds in Spanish
In: Studies in historical Ibero-Romance morpho-syntax, Bouzouita, Miriam, Ioanna Sitaridou & Enrique Pato (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 16] pp. 47–74
Keywords concatenative compounds | linking vowel | stem marker | binomial | Spanish | Morphology
Moyna, María Irene 2016 Introduction: Addressing the research questions
In: Forms of Address in the Spanish of the Americas, Moyna, María Irene & Susana Rivera-Mills (eds.) [Issues in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics, 10] pp. 1–12
Montgomery, Michael, Michael Ellis & Brandon Cooper 2014 When did Southern American English really begin?: Testing Bailey’s Hypothesis
In: The Evolution of Englishes: The Dynamic Model and beyond, Buschfeld, Sarah, Thomas Hoffmann, Magnus Huber & Alexander Kautzsch (eds.) [Varieties of English Around the World, G49] pp. 331–348
Keywords American Civil War | corpus linguistics | grammar | Guy Bailey | Southern American English | validity of written documents
Attardo, Salvatore 2011 Humor
In: Discursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights, 8] pp. 135–155
Attardo, Salvatore, Lucy Pickering & Amanda Baker 2011 Prosodic and multimodal markers of humor in conversation
Pragmatics & Cognition 19:2pp. 224–247 | article
Keywords conversational humor | humor | humor markers | irony | laughter | prosody | pauses | smiling
Eslami, Zohreh R. 2010 Refusals: How to develop appropriate refusal strategies
In: Speech Act Performance: Theoretical, empirical and methodological issues, Martínez-Flor, Alicia & Esther Usó-Juan (eds.) [Language Learning & Language Teaching, 26] pp. 217–236
Bermúdez, José Luis 2011 Action and awareness of agency: Comments on Chris Frith
Pragmatics & Cognition 18:3pp. 576–588 | article
Keywords agency | conscious experience | personal/subpersonal levels | reasons for action | sense of agency
Vaid, Jyotsna, Hyun Choi, Hsin-Chin Chen & Mike Friedman 2008 Perceiving and responding to embarrassing predicaments across languages: Cultural influences on the emotion lexicon
The Mental Lexicon 3:1pp. 122–148 | article
Mallén, Enrique 2008 Attributive adjectives in Germanic and Romance
In: Issues in Formal German(ic) Typology, Abraham, Werner & C. Jan-Wouter Zwart (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 45] pp. 193–222
Aristar, Anthony Rodrigues 1997 Marking and Hierarchy Types and the Grammaticalization of Case-Markers
Studies in Language 21:2pp. 313–368 | article
Bailey, Guy & Natalie Maynor 1985 The Present Tense of Be in White Folk Speech of the Southern United States
English World-Wide 6:2pp. 199–216 | article