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Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich

Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (PhD University of Valencia) is Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in linguistics. She is interested in im/politeness, genre models, identity construction, and traditional and digital media, on which she has published and lectured extensively. She sits on the board of various international journals and is co-editor in chief of the Journal of Language of Aggression and Conflict and the Routledge Focus on (Im)politeness book series.

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Affiliation: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE (USA)

ORCID number: 0000-0002-0903-275X

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?user=KIeIjSAAAAAJ&hl=es

Academia profile: https://uncc.academia.edu/PilarGarcesBlitvich

Contact: pgblitvi@uncc.edu

 

Research interests:

  • Conflict/Aggression
  • Im/politeness models
  • Genre theory
  • Identity construction
  • Traditional/Social media

Editorship

 

Selected Publications Since 2010

1) Edited books and special issues

  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Márquez Reiter, R. (eds.)  (in preparation – 2024) Advances in Contrastive Pragmatics. Case studies from Spanish(es). Journal of Contrastive Pragmatics.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2024). The pragmatics of intergroup communication. Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P (eds.) (2023) Evaluating identities online: Case studies from the Spanish speaking world. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Georgakopoulou, A. (2023) Influencers and ‘fans’: The pragmatics of affect and hate in the construction of social media celebrities.
  • Ogiermann, E. & Garcés Conejos Blitvich, P. (Eds.) (2019). From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: Multilingual and multicultural perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P., Fernández, Amaya, L. & Hernández-López, M.(Eds.) (2019). Technology mediated service encounters. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Eds.) (2019). Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Sifianou, Maria & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Guest editors) (2018). Special Issue on Im/politeness and Globalization. Journal of Pragmatics 134.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P.  (Guest editors). (2014). Special issue: The pragmatics of textual participation in the social media. Journal of Pragmatics 73, 1-82.
  • Lorenzo-Dus, N. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Eds.) (2013) Real talk: Reality television and discourse analysis in action. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Guest editor). (2013). Special issue – The interconnections between face and identity. Journal of Politeness Research 9, 1.
  • Macaulay, M. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Eds.) (2012). Pragmatics and context. Toronto, CA: Antares.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Guest editor) (2010) Special Issue- Impoliteness across Cultures. Intercultural Pragmatics 7, 4.

 

2) Book chapters (peer reviewed)

  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2023). Cancel Culture and influencers: The Hilaria Baldwin case. In P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich & A. Georgakopoulou (Eds.) Influencers and ‘fans’: The pragmatics of affect and hate in the construction of social media celebrities. John Benjamins.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Fernández-Amaya, L. (2023). The off/online nexus and public spaces: Morality, civility, and aggression in the attribution and ratification of the Karen social identity. In F. Yus, F., & A. Parini (Eds.)  The discursive construction of place in the digital age. Routledge.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2022). Go ahead and ‘debunk’ truth by calling it a conspiracy theory” – The discursive construction of conspiracy theoryness in online affinity spaces. In R. Breeze et al (eds), Discourses of and about conspiracy theories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2021). Getting into the mob: A netnographic, case-study approach to online public shaming. In M. Johansson, S. Tanskanen, & J Chovanec (Eds.), Analysing Digital Discourse: Practices of Convergence and Controversy, pp. 247-274. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Kádár, D. (2021). Morality and socio-pragmatics. In M. Haugh, D. Kádár & M. Terkourafi (Eds.). Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Georgakopoulou, A. (2021). Analyzing identity. In M. Haugh, D. Kádár & M. Terkourafi (Eds.). Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2021). “Imagen pública, cortesía y descortesía”. In V. Escandell et al. (eds.) Manual práctico de pragmática. AKAL.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2021). Impoliteness and conflict in Spanish. In D. Koike & C. Félix Brasdefer (Eds.)  The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics. London: Routledge.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2019). La descortesía en las redes sociales. In X. Padilla & M. E. Placencia (Eds.) Guía práctica de pragmática del español. London: Routledge.
  • Bou-Franch, P & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2019). Spanish retailer-consumer interactions on Facebook:  A variational pragmatics perspective on conflict. In Maria Elena Placencia & César Félix-Brasdefer (Eds.) Pragmatic variation in service encounter interactions. London: Routledge.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2019). “You are shamed for speaking it or for not speaking it good enough”: Paradoxical status of Spanish in the US Latino community” In L. Jeffries and J. O’Driscoll (eds.) Handbook of Language in Conflict (pp. 398-416). Routledge.
  • Ogiermann, E. and Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2019). Im/politeness between the analyst and participant perspectives – an overview of the field. In E. Ogierman, & P. Garcés Conejos Blitvich, (Eds.) (2019). From speech acts to lay concepts of politeness: A multilingual, multicultural perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, Patricia (2019). Emic conceptualizations of imagen in Peninsular Spanish. In E. Ogiermann, & P. Garcés Conejos Blitvich (eds.) (2019). From speech acts to lay concepts of politeness: A multilingual, multicultural perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Roeder, R., Miller, E. R., & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2019) Pedagogy, Audience, and Attitudes: Influencing University Students’ Metalinguistic Awareness about Texting Practices. In P. Bou-Franch & P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.), Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions (pp. 367-390). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P., & Sifianou, M. (2017). Im/politeness and identity. In J. Culpeper, M. Haugh, & D. Kádár (eds.) Handbook of Linguistic (Im)Politeness (pp.227-256). Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Sifianou, M., & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2017). Im/politeness and cultural variation. In J. Culpeper, M. Haugh, & D. Kádár (eds.) Handbook of Linguistic (Im)Politeness (pp.571-600). Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2016). Gender ideology and social identity processes in online language aggression against women. In P. Bou-Franch (ed.) Exploring Language Aggression Against Women. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Benjamins Current Content Series).
  • Garcés-Conejos, Blitvich, P. (2015). Setting the linguistics research agenda for the e-service encounters genre: Natively digital versus digitized perspectives. In L. Fernández-Amaya & M. Hernández-Lopez (Eds.). Service encounters and cross-cultural communication (pp. 15-36). Leiden: Brill.
  • Garcés-Conejos, Blitvich, P. and Lorenzo-Dus, Nuria (2013). ‘GET INVOLVED!: Community and conversation in the 2008 Obama presidential e-campaign, In M. Ekstrom & A. Tolson (Eds.). Democracy in deficit? Media talk and political elections in Europe and America. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lorenzo-Dus, N. Bou-Franch, P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P (2013). “Impoliteness in USA / UK talent shows – A diachronic study of the evolution of a genre.” In N. Lorenzo-Dus & P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.) Real talk: Reality television and discourse analysis in action. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P & Lorenzo-Dus, N (2013). “The discourse of reality TV.”  In N. Lorenzo-Dus & P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.) Real talk: Reality television and discourse analysis in action. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lorenzo-Dus, N. & Garcés-Conejos, Blitvich, P (2013). “Different methodological approaches to the analysis of reality TV.” In N. Lorenzo-Dus & P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.) Real talk: Reality television and discourse analysis in action. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos, Blitvich, P.& Lorenzo-Dus, N, Bou-Franch, P. (2013).“Relational work in anonymous, asynchronous communication: A study of (dis)affiliation in YouTube” In I. Kecskes & J. Romero-Trillo (Eds.). Linguistic aspects of intercultural pragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2012). El modelo del género y la des/cortesía clasificatoria en las evaluaciones de Sálvame por parte de la audiencia (Genre and classificatory im/politeness in assessments of Sálvame). In Catalina Fuentes (ed.) (Des)cortesía para el espectáculo; Estudios de pragmática variacionista. Madrid: Arco Libros.

 

3) Papers in peer-reviewed journals

  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (forthcoming). Identities in conflict: Latinos in Spain. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Márquez Reiter, R. (eds.)  (in preparation – 2024) Advances in Contrastive Pragmatics. Case studies from Spanish(es). Journal of Contrastive Pragmatics.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P.  (2022). Moral emotions, good moral panics, social regulation, and online public shaming. Language & Communication.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2022). Karen: Stigmatized social identity and face-threat in the on/offline nexus.  Journal of Pragmatics, 188:14-30.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Sifianou, M. (2019). Im/politeness in discursive pragmatics. In Quo Vadis Pragmatics? Recent developments in the field of pragmatics. Special issue of the Journal of Pragmatics, guest edited by M. Haugh & M. Terkourafi, 145: 91-101.
  • Sifianou, M. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2018). Editorial: Globalization and Im/politeness. Journal of Pragmatics, 134, 113-119
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich P. (2018). Globalization, transnational identities, and conflict talk: The complexity of the Latino identity. Journal of Pragmatics 134: 120-133.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P.  (2018) Relational work in multimodal networked interactions on Facebook. Internet Pragmatics 1(1): 134-160.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2014) ¿!Hispano y Blanco?!: Racialización de la identidad Latina en YouTube. Discurso y Sociedad 8(3): 427-461.
  • Fernández-Amaya, L., Hernández-López, M & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2014) Spanish travelers’ expectations of service encounters in domestic and international settings. Tourism, Culture and Communication 14 (2): 117-134.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2014) Gender ideology and social identity processes in online language aggression against women, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 2, (2): 226-248,. Included in the special issue on language violence against women.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2014). Conflict management in massive polylogues: A case study from YouTube. Journal of Pragmatics 73, 19-36.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P., Bou-Franch, P & Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2013). “Despierten, Latinos” (Wake up, Latinos): Latino Identity, US politics and YouTube”. Journal of Language and Politics 12 (4): 558-582.
  • Dobs, Abby & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar (2013).Impoliteness in interaction: Accounting for face-threat witness’s responses. Journal of Pragmatics 53: 112-130.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2013). “Face, identity, and im/politeness: Looking backwards, moving forward – From Goffman to Practice Theory”, Journal of Politeness Research 9, 1.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P., Lorenzo-Dus, N. & Bou-Franch, P. (2013). Identity and impoliteness: The expert in the talent show Idol. Journal of Politeness Research 9, 1.
  • Bou-Franch, P., Lorenzo-Dus, N, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2012).Social interaction in YouTube text-based polylogues: A study of coherence. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 17, 501–521
  • Lorenzo-Dus, N., Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P.  (2011). Online polylogues and impoliteness: The case of postings sent in response to the Obama Reggaeton YouTube video. Journal of Pragmatics 43, 10: 2578-2593.
  •  Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2010). The status quo and quo-vadis of impoliteness research. Intercultural Pragmatics 7, 4: 535–559.
  •  Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P., Bou-Franch, P & Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2010). A genre-approach to im-politeness in a Spanish TV talk show: Evidence from corpus-based analysis, questionnaires and focus groups. Intercultural Pragmatics 7, 4: 689–723.
  •  Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P & Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2010). “On-line community organizing: Rapport and directness. A case study from the Obama presidential campaign”. Issues in Political Discourse Analysis 3, 1: 22-46.
  •  Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2010). “A genre approach to the study of im-politeness”. International Review of Pragmatics 2, 1: 46-94.

 

4) Selected Research Presentations Since 2010

4.1. Plenary lectures and invited keynote presentations:

  • The multimodal construction of conflictual identities: Karen. Universitat Jaume I, December 20, 2022.
  • Constructing Karen: Alterity, aggression, and morality. Tuesday’s seminars of the Laboratory of Ethnographic Approaches to the study of Language, Department (Social Anthropology and History) of the University of the Aegean, Greece. November 8, 2022.
  • Charting uncharted territory: Affect and Effect. Behind the Screen speaker series sponsored by the Digital discourse and media & writing lab. University of Southern Florida, October 30, 2022.
  • A discursive-pragmatic approach to Cancel Culture – Intergroup communication and the on/offline nexus. First International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics. Zhejiang International Studies University, Hangzhou, China, 21-23 October 2022.
  • Using linguistics to understand and analyze Cancel Culture. University of Toronto,  March 7, 2021.
  • Moral indignation, moral panics, social regulation, and online shaming, Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis International Conference, University of Turku, Finland, May 23-25, 2019.
  • Smart mobs, cyber public shaming, and social justice. 11th International Conference on Im/Politeness. University of Valencia, July 4-6, 2018.
  • Cultural violence, transnational identities, and citizen discourse: Latinos versus immigrants, University of Lancaster, UK, May 25, 2016.
  • “Globalisation, conflict and identity” MAES-IULMA Institute, University of Valencia, Spain. November 24-25, 2015.
  • “Social media, conflict, and identity” Oberrmann Center for Advanced Studies. University of Iowa. Keynote presentation and round table. October 12-13, 2015.
  • Globalization, transnational identities, and conflict talk: The complexity of the Latino identity. 9th International Conference on Im/Politeness:Im/politeness and globalization, University of Athens, July 1-3, 2015.
  •  “Cyber service encounters” –1st Service Encounters & Cross-Cultural Communication Symposium –  University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, January 2013.
  • Current approaches to the study of im/politeness: The genre model”. University of Valencia, Spain. November 9, 2011.
  • “Impoliteness in an L2”. Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. November 10, 2011.
  • A genre approach to the study of im-politeness — IV EPICS symposium. University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain, March 2010

 

4.2. Presentations in national and international conferences – refereed

  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2022). La identidad latina en España: construcción discursiva (y conflictiva) en la red. IV Congreso Internacional RECOD; En torno a la comunicación digital en español: Cultura participativa y discurso en la red. University of Alicante (Spain) October 6-7.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2022). Interpersonal versus intergroup im/politeness. 24 Sociolinguistics Symposium. University of Ghent, Belgium. July 13-16.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2022). A discursive pragmatic approach to Cancel Culture. X International Symposium on intercultural, cognitive, and social pragmatics (EPICS). Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain, May 23-25.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2022) Karen; Stigmatized social identity and face-threat in the on/offline nexus. 3rd International Conference of Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis (ADDA). University of Southern Florida, May 13-15
  • Lorenzo-Dus, N. & Garcés -Conejos Blitvich, P. (2021) I was hoping I didn’t need to clarify – that was typed in sarcasm font’ – Norms and knowledge construction in the /r/conspiracytheories affinity space. Panel on Im/politeness norms in online affinity spaces organized by P. G. Blitvich and Marta Dynel. IPrA Conference, June 27-July 2, Winterthur, Switzerland.
  • Garcés -Conejos Blitvich, P. (2021) Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d, Nor hell a fury, like an affronted smart mob: Canceling Influencers in an age of outrage. Panel on Influencers & ‘fans’: The pragmatics of affect & hate in the construction of social media celebrities, organized by A. Georgakopoulou and P. G. Blitvich. IPrA Conference, June 27-July 2, Winterthur, Switzerland.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2020) Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d, Nor hell a fury, like an affronted smart mob: Canceling Influencers in an age of outrage: The cancelation of Chichi Eburu, owner and CEO of Juvia’s Place. International workshop on ‘Influencers & fans’: The pragmatics of affect and hate. November 4.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2020). Canceling: Boycotting and shaming rituals in an outrage culture. II International Internet Pragmatics Conference. University of Helsinki. October 2020.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2018). “You are shamed for speaking it or for not speaking it good enough”: Paradoxical status of Spanish in the US Latino community. VIII International Symposium on intercultural, cognitive and social pragmatics. Seville, Spain, May 2-4.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos, P. (2018). “Relational work in multimodal networked interactions on Facebook”. VIII International Symposium on intercultural, cognitive and social pragmatics. Seville, Spain, May 2-4.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2017). Specialist Panel Convenors: Post-Civility and ALT-Impoliteness, 10th International Symposium on Politeness. York St. John University, York (UK), July 12-14, 2017.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2017). Trolling in the name of free speech: The Milo Yiannopoulos’s case. 10th International Symposium on Politeness. York St. John University, York (UK), July 12-14, 2017.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2017). “Peninsular Spanish retailer-consumer ineractions on Facebook: A variational pragmatics perspective.”  15 International Pragmatics Association Conference, Belfast (UK), July 16-21, 2017.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Sifianou, M. (2016). “Problematizing ‘them’: The discourse of the far right in Southern Europe”. 1st International Conference “Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders” September 23rd-25th, 2016 in Athens, Greece.
  • Roeder, R., Miller, E. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2015). Pedagogy, audience, and attitudes: Influencing metalinguistic awareness about texting practices. ADDA I – Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis Conference. Valencia (Spain), December 18-20.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2015). Conflictual micro-strategies of identity negotiation: The Latino transnational identity and citizen discourse. 14th International Pragmatics Association Conference. Antwerp (Belgium), July 26-31
  • Hernández-López, M. Fernández-Amaya, L. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2015). A Contrast between Expected and Experienced Politeness in English-Speaking Contexts. 14th International Pragmatics Association Conference. Antwerp (Belgium), July 26-31.
  • Garcés-Conejos, P. (2015). Transnational identity and citizen discourse: Latinos versus immigrants. Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics. March 13-15.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2014). Discourses of inequality: Gender violence in Spanish newspapers. V Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Conference. Budapest, September 1-3, 2014.
  • Hernández-López, M.  Fernandez-Amaya, L. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2014) Conflict language in service encounters: Impoliteness at hotel reception desks. 8th International Conference of Politeness. University of Huddersfield, July 9-11, 2014.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. and Sifianou, M. (2014). Convenors: Panel on Language Aggression and Conflict. 8th International Conference of Politeness. University of Huddersfield, July 9-11, 2014.
  • Bou-Franch, P. Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2014). Language aggression against women: gender identity and inequality in online discourse. EPICS VI, University of Seville, May 12-14, 2014.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2010) Convenor – Panel on “Face and identity on and off line”. V International Symposium on Politeness. University of Basel, Switzerland. June 30-July 2, 2010.
  • Lorenzo-Dus, N., Bou-Franch, P. and Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. “Identity-driven/identity-constrained im-politeness? The case of exploitative television”. V International Symposium on Politeness. University of Basel, Switzerland. June 30-July 2, 2010.
  • Bou-Franch, P., Lorenzo-Dus, N. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P.  “Making sense of on-line polylogues: A study of YouTube interaction” EPICS IV – March 24-26 2010. Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Seville, Spain.

Organised conferences:

2022 – ADDA 3 – https://adda3.org/

2023 – ADDA 4 – https://conference2.aau.at/event/164/overview