Publications
Escalona Torres, J. M. (2020a). "Degree, Time, and Focus: A Historical Tale of 'a poco'." In D. Pascual y Cabo & I. Elola (eds.), Current Theoretical and Applied Perspectives on Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (133-152). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Escalona Torres, J. M. (2020b). "Mirativity as Expressive Meaning: The Case of 'adios'." Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics (published online ahead of print), 000010151520202023. doi: https://doi.org/10.1515/shll-2020-2032.
Díaz-Campos, M. A., Escalona Torres, J. M., Filimonova, V. (2020c). "Sociolinguistics of the Spanish-Speaking World." Annual Review of Linguistics 6, 363-388.
Escalona Torres, J. M. (2019). "Sex in Euphemisms and Dysphemisms" [Review of the book Sex in Language: Euphemistic and Dysphemistic Metaphors in Internet Forums by E. Crespo-Fernández (2017). New York: Bloomsbury Publishing] Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, 15(2), 209-214.
Escalona Torres, J. M. (2019). "The Effects of Social Distance in Service Encounters in Puerto Rican 'Panaderías'." In J. C. Félix-Brasdefer & M. E. Placencia (eds.), Pragmatic Variation in Service Encounter Interactions across the Spanish-Speaking World (230-247). London: Routledge. doi: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351065382.
Díaz-Campos, M. A., Escalona Torres, J. M. (2018). "Corpus Approaches to the Study of Language, Variation, and Change." In K. Geesling (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Hispanic Linguistics, (121-142). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Escalona-Torres, J. M. (2016). "'¡No seas cobarde!' Discursive/Pragmatic Variation of Impoliteness in a Multi-Party Political Debate. Bloomington, IN: IULC Working Papers.
Holdway, J., Barbee, M., Escalona Torres, J. M. (2012). "Development of an ESP Program for a Micronesian Population in Hawai‘i." In H. Ahn & M. Vidal (eds.), Proceedings from the 16th Annual Language Literature and Linguistics Graduate Student Conference, (29-40). Honolulu: National Foreign Language Resource Center.