Carmen Maíz Arévalo

Publications

Articles in scientific journals:

• Maíz-Arévalo, C., & Méndez-García, M. D. C. (2023). “I would like to complain”: A study of the moves and strategies employed by Spanish EFL learners in formal complaint e-mails. Intercultural Pragmatics, 20(2), 161-197.
• Díaz Muñoz, P. and C. Maíz-Arévalo (Under review –2023-4). “We are completely stunned”: Corrective facework in hosts’ responses to Airbnb negative reviews. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict.
• Žákovská, I., C. Maíz-Arévalo, and Y. Cao. (in press -2023). ‘Are we laughing at the same?’ A contrastive analysis of Covid-related memes in Czech, Chinese and Spanish. The European Journal of Humour Research.
• Cantos Delgado, C. and C. Maíz-Arévalo (accepted for publication -2023). “I hear you like bad girls? I’m bad at everything” A cross-cultural analysis (British-Spanish) of humour as a self-presentation strategy in Tinder profiles. The European Journal of Humour Research.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. & Orduna Nocito, E. (2021). Developing Intercultural Communicative   Competence: A Cornerstone in EMI in-service   Training Programmes in Higher Education. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (RAEI), 34, 159-184.
• Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2021). When humour backfires: How do WhatsApp users respond to humorous profile statuses as a self-presentation strategy?. Internet Pragmatics, 4(1), 111-130. http://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00064.are
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2021). “Blowing our own trumpet”: Self-praise in Peninsular Spanish face-to-face communication. Journal of Pragmatics, 183, 107-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.07.001
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2021). Inspiring me, Inspiring you: The use of inspirational quotes as a self-presentation strategy on WhatsApp statuses. Rivista di psicolinguistica aplicata (RiPLA), 21(2), 67-79.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2018). Emotional self-presentation on WhatsApp: Analysis of the profile status. Russian Journal of Linguistics, 22(1), 144-160.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2018). «Sólo un poquito» El uso y funciones del diminutivo en español peninsular en dos grupos de Facebook. Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación (CLAC). Volumen monográfico ‘La atenuación en los discursos digitales en español’, 73: 33-52.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2017). ‘A promise is a promise… but what about threats?’: an English-Spanish contrastive analysis of the verbs promise-prometer and threaten-amenazar. Kalbotyra, 70: 79-103.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2017). “Expressive speech acts in educational e-chats”. Sociocultural Pragmatics, 5 (2): 151-178.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2017). ‘Small talk is not cheap’: phatic computer-mediated communication in intercultural classes. Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL). DOI: 10.1080/09588221.2017.1304423, 1-15.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2017). “Questions in English as a Medium of Instruction versus nonEnglish as a Medium of Instruction Lectures”. GiST- Education and Learning Research Journal, 14: 6-31.
• Maíz-Arévalo, C. & Sánchez-Moya, A. (2017). “I Know How You Feel”: Multifaceted Insights into the Expression of Support Strategies in Computer-Mediated-Communication. EPiC Series in Language and Linguistics, 2: 214–223.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2016). “Emoticons in transactional and interactional exchanges: social networking chitchat versus working negotiation”. Odisea: Revista de estudios ingleses, 17: 19-36.
• Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2015). “Typographic Alteration in Formal Computer-mediated Communication”. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences 212: 140-145.
• Carretero, Marta, Carmen Maíz-Arévalo y M. Ángeles Martínez. (2015). “An analysis of expressive speech acts in online task-oriented interaction by university students”. Social and Behavioural Sciences 173: 186-190.
• Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2015). “Jocular mockery in computer-mediated communication: A contrastive study of a Spanish and English Facebook community.” Journal of Politeness Research, 11(2): 289-327.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2014). “‘I’m sorry I don’t agree with you’: Can we teach nonnative students pragmatic competence when expressing disagreement?” Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 27(2): 433-453.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2014). “Expressing disagreement in English as a lingua franca: Whose pragmatic rules?” Intercultural Pragmatics, 11 (2): 199-224. Doi: 10.1515/ip-20140009.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. y Santamaría, C. (2013). “Hibridismo entre el lenguaje oral y el escrito”. Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos. Dossier: Cultura y nuevas tecnologías, 761: 69-85. ISSN: 0011-250X.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2013). “Just click Like”: Computer-mediated responses to Spanish compliments. Journal of Pragmatics, 51: 47-67.
• Braga Riera, J. y Maíz Arévalo, C. (2013). “CLIL and Translation in Tertiary Education”. Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 19: 29-59.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. and García Gómez, A. (2013). “You look terrific!”: Social evaluation and relationships in online compliments. Discourse Studies, 15(6): 1-26.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. and Domínguez Romero, E. (2013). Students’ response to CLIL in tertiary education: the Case of Business administration and economics at Complutense University.  Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 8: 1-12.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2012). “Was that a compliment?” Implicit compliments in English and Spanish. Journal of Pragmatics, 44 (8): 980-996.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2011). Gender-based differences on Spanish conversational exchanges: the role of the follow-up move. Discourse Studies, 13 (6): 687-724.

Books:

• Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2024). The power of self-presentation. Spanish speakers constructing digital identity. Palgrave.

Book chapters:

• Yus, F. and C. Maíz-Arévalo (in press -2023). “Interpreting covid-related memes: the role of inferential strategies and context accessibility”. In Linares, E. (ed.). The pragmatics of humour in interactive contexts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Sánchez-Moya, A. and C. Maíz-Arévalo (in press -2023). “Histrionic, Appalling, a Major Turkey”: The expression of evaluative stance in the discourse of online forums. In Marín Arrese, J. I. and Hidalgo-Downing, R. (eds.). Evaluation and stance. Peter Lang.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2022). “Self-praise in Peninsular Spanish face-to-face interaction”. In Xie, C. & Tong, Y. (Eds.). Self-Praise Across Cultures and Contexts. Cham: Springer, pp. n/a.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2021). “Humour and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile status”. In Xie, C., Yus, F., & Haberland, H. (Eds.). (2021). Approaches to internet pragmatics: Theory and practice (Vol. 318). John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 175-205.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2020). “Pero… y las caritas esas, ¿cómo se ponen?”. In Placencia Mª Elena y Zohreh R. Eslami (Eds). Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 74-98.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2020). “Los cumplidos”. En Placencia, Mª Elena y Xosé A. Padilla. (Eds.). Guía práctica de pragmática del español. Londres: Routledge, pp. 29-39.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2019). “Losing Face on Facebook: Linguistic strategies to repair face in a Spanish common interest group”. In Bou Franc, P. and Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Eds.). Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis. London: Palgrave, pp. 283-309.
• Calle Martínez, C., Maíz Arévalo, C. and Núñez Perucha, B. (2018). “Using the flipped classroom to teach Tourism: a case study”. In Calle Martínez, C. and Slavka Madarova (Eds.). Focus on learning: Contribution to the field of ESP. Madrid: Universidad Camilo José Cela, pp. 45-51.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2017). “Getting liked”. In Hoffman, C. & Bublitz, W. (eds.). Handbook of Pragmatics 11: Pragmatics of Social Media. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 573-604. DOI 10.1515/9783110431070-021
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2014). “A pragmatic and multimodal analysis of emoticons and gender in social networks.” In New Insights into Gendered Discourse Practices: Language, Gender and Identity Construction, edited by A. Sánchez Macarro y A.B. Cabrejas Peñuelas. Valencia: Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat de València, pp. 173-195.
• Carretero, M. Maíz Arévalo, C. & Martínez M. A. (2014). “Hope this helps: An analysis of Expressive Speech Acts in online task-oriented interaction by university students”. In Romero Trillo, J. (ed). Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics 2014: New Empirical and Theoretical Paradigms (Vol. 2). Switzerland: Springer, 261-290.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2012). At a loss for words or how to respond to compliments: A contrastive study of English and Spanish. In Fernández Amaya, L. et al. (eds.). New Perspectives on (Im)politeness and Interpersonal Communication. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 157-173. ISBN: 1-4438-4171-4
• Maíz Arévalo, C. y Arús Hita, J. (2012). “Las apariencias engañan: análisis contrastivo de adverbios de cotilleo en español e inglés”, en García, C. y Plasencia, M.E. (eds.). Estudios de Pragmática y Comunicación intercultural en el mundo hispanohablante. Londres: Rodopi, pp. 233-254.

Book reviews:

• Maíz-Arévalo, C. & Carvajal Martín, C. (forthcoming). This is me: Spanish politicians’ self-presentation on Twitter bios. In Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (eds.) Evaluating Identities: Case Studies from the Spanish Speaking World. Palgrave.
• Maíz-Arévalo, C. & Yus, F. (forthcoming). The sociopragmatics of emotion: The use of humour as an affiliative strategy in times of Covid. In Alba-Juez, L. and Haugh, M. (eds.). The sociopragmatics of emotion. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2021). Fuster-Márquez, Miguel, José Santaemilia, Carmen Gregori-Signes and Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras eds. Exploring Discourse and Ideology through Corpora. Bern: Peter Lang. Research in Corpus Linguistics, 9(2), 211-218.
• Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2021). Breeze, Ruth and Carmen Llamas Saíz (eds.). 2020. Metaphor in political conflict. Populism and discourse. Navarra: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra (EUNSA). ISBN 978-84-313-3467-3. Russian Journal of Linguistics, 25(2), 575-580.
• Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2020). Sharifian, Farzad. 2017. Cultural Linguistics. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 171 pp., Paperback ISBN 978-90-272-0412-7. Journal of Politeness Research, 16(1): aop.
• Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2017). Flöck, Ilka. 2016. Requests in American and British English. A contrastive multi-method analysis. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 264. Kalbotyra, 70: 192-197.
• Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2017).  Zufferey, Sandrine. 2015. Acquiring pragmatics. Social and cognitive perspectives. London: Routledge, 202 pp. ISBN 978-0415746427.
• Intercultural Pragmatics, 14(3): 453–460.
• Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2016). Wortham, S., & Reyes, A. Discourse analysis beyond the speech event. London/New York: Routledge, 193 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-83949-5. Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada, 29.1, pp. 338-343.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2010). Gilbert Maceda, M.T. & Alba Juez, L. (2014). Estudios de Filología Inglesa: Homenaje a la Dra. Asunción Alba Pelayo. Madrid: Editorial UNED, 615 pp.  Estudios Ingleses de la Universidad Complutense, 18: 109-113.

Edited books:

• Lavid, J., Maíz Arévalo, C. & Zamorano, J.R. (eds.). (2021). Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age Recent advances and explorations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Maíz Arévalo, C. (2010). (ed.). Nombre propio e identidad cultural. Madrid: Sílex.

Participation in conferences/congresses

Key-note talks (by invitation):
“Play it again, Sam. Gamification in EFL”. Keynote presentation at “Máster de Enseñanza del Profesorado en la Universidad de Jaén”. 2 February 2023.

• “Identity construction and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile statuses: What does our status say about us?”. Lecture at Seminar Series of the Section of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Online, 3^rd June 2021.
• “Challenges and opportunities of digital collaborative group work in the times of COVID-19”. Lecture at Seminar in Innovative Teaching, Real Colegio Complutense Harvard University. Online, 4^th March 2021.
• “Intercultural competence and pragmatic failure: the case of compliments and disagreements in ELF”. Keynote lectura at Seminar of Modern Languages, International Book Fair. University of Guadalajara, Mexico. 27^th November 2017.
• “Teaching Pragmatic Competence to EFL Students: focusing on the speech act of compliments”. Lecture at Master in TEFL, Spanish Open University. 2^nd June 2012.

Presentations at conferences:

Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2022). “Padre y politico: La autopresentación de los diputados españoles en la red Twitter”. Panel: “Identidades digitales en el mundo hispanoblante”, IV Congreso Internacional RECOD: En torno a la comunicación digital en español: cultura participativa y discurso en la red, Alicante, 6-7 October 2022.

• ““I would like to complain”: a study of formal written complaints by Spanish EFL learners”. 39th International Congress of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA), University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, April 2022. Co-author Mª del Carmen Méndez García.
• “Humorous effects from Covid-19 memes. The role of multimodal combinations”. 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA). Online 27th June – 2nd July 2021. Co-author Francisco Yus.
• ““Laughing together, coping together”: The role of humorous memes in the Covid-19 Crisis”. 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA). Online 27th June – 2nd July 2021. Co-author Francisco Yus.
• “A neo-Gricean approach to implicit insults in Spanish and English fora”. 13^th International Symposium on Politeness (SYMPOL). Online, 24-26 June 2021.
• “El uso de TIC para la gamificación y clase invertida”. Comunicación en la jornada Aprendizaje Eficaz con TIC en la UCM. Online, 23^rd June 2021.
• “Insulting implicitly in English and Spanish Forums”. 9^th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS IX). University of Seville, 4-11 November 2020. Co-author Alfonso Sánchez-Moya.
• “Peer review in group work: a case study in Spanish higher education”. 4th International Virtual Conference on Educational Research and Innovation (CIVINEDU 2020). Online, 23-24 September 2020. Co-author Inés de la Villa.
• “Histrionic, appalling, a major turkey: the expression of evaluative stance in the discourse of online forums”. International Conference on Stance, (Inter)Subjectivity & Identity in Discourse (STANCEDISC’20). Online, 9-11 September 2020. Co-author Alfonso Sánchez-Moya.
• “Por qué gamificar en la educación superior”. I Congreso Internacional de Innovación Docente e Investigación en Educación Superior: un reto para las áreas de conocimiento (I CIDICO). Madrid, 20-22 November 2019.
• “Evaluation and attitude across discourse domains: Advertising, fora and scientific discourse”. Round table at 43rd AEDEAN Conference. University of Alicante, 13-15 November 2019.
• “Ain’t that funny: Humour and self-presentation on WhatsApp”. International Conference of Verbal Humour. University of Alicante, 23-25 October 2019.
• “Boosting intercultural competence through group work: a case study”. 6^th ICLHE Conference. Universitat Jaume I, 15-18 October 2019.
• “Self-presentation on WhatsApp: What does our status say about us?”. III DISCOM-COGFUNC Linguistic Circle, Complutense University of Madrid, 21-22 May 2019.
• “Conversational Implicature in the TOEIC Exam: the Role of Explicit Instruction.” 6^th International Language in Focus Conference. Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2-4 May 2019.
• “Who the f*** do you think you are?: A diachronic study of the language of aggression on a Facebook interest group”. AESLA 37 Conference. University of Valladolid, 27-29 March 2019.
• “Testing conversational implicature in the TOEIC examination”, co-author Andrea Martínez Celis. AESLA 37 Conference. University of Valladolid, 27-29 March 2019.
• “Using the flipped classroom to teach tourism: A case study”. 17^th Congreso Internacional AELFE: Innovation and research in the globalization era. Camilo José Cela University, Madrid, 28-29 June 2018.
• “Emotional self-presentation on WhatsApp: Analysis of the profile status”. 8TH International Symposium on intercultural, cognitive and social pragmatics (EPICS). University of Sevilla, 2-4 May 2018.
• “Self-presentation on WhatsApp: towards a multimodal analysis of the profile picture and status”. ViNM Conference 2017 (Visualizing in the New Media). University of Nêuchatel, 8-10 November 2017.
• “’But… how do you add the little faces?’: Age effects on Facebook complimenting behaviour”, invited talk in the pannel “Complimenting behaviour in social media”. Convenors: Mª Elena Placencia, Anupam Das and Zohreh Eslami. 15^th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA). Belfast: University of Belfast, 16-21 July 2017.
• “Teacher’s and Students’ verbal interaction in CLIL versus non-CLIL lectures at tertiary level: a case study”, XII International Congress of General Linguistics, University of Alcala, 23-25 May 2016.
• “Disembodied gender in computer-mediated communication: multifaceted insights into Facebook, online forums and blogs”, 34 International Congress of the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA), University of Alicante. (Round table convenor), 14-16 April 2016.
• “Losing face in Facebook: Linguistic strategies to repair face in a Spanish common interest group”, 1^st International Conference Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis, ADDA I. University of Valencia, 18-20 November 2015.
• “Expressive speech acts in task-oriented online communication”. 14^th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA). Antwerp University (Belgium), 26-31 July 2015.
• “Towards a contrastive study of Spanish and English jocular mockery on Facebook”. 7th International SIS-EES Conference (Spanish in Society), Edinburgh University (UK), 28-29 May 2015.
• “Typographic alteration in formal computer-mediated communication”, 33rd AESLA International Conference, Polytechnic University of Madrid, 16-18 April 2015.
• “El uso del e-foro como herramienta en los trabajos colaborativos”, 4th July 2014. Congreso: Jornada de Aprendizaje Cooperativo JAC’14. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
• “Smiling faces or pragmatic cues? Functions and gender of emoticons in social networking sites”. EPICS VI International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, University of Seville, 14-16 May 2014.
• “Are you going to answer or what?” Reproaches and directives in students’ online collaborative tasks”, (co-author Dra. Marta Carretero). EPICS VI International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, University of Seville, 14-16 Maye 2014.
• “Multicultural classrooms: a pragmatic minefield or a breeding ground for teaching pragmatics? Raising students’ pragmatic awareness through online collaborative writing”, International Conference Pragmatics on the go, Universitá degli Studi di Padova, 17-20 June 2013.
• “Are implicit compliments really that implicit?” V Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS). University Pablo de Olavide, 14-16 March 2012.

DOCTORAL THESIS:

• Tsoumou, J. M. “Alternancia de lenguas en la comunicación mediada por ordenador entre las personas del Congo”. Co-dirigida con Dña. Nuria Calvo (UCM). Defendida en 2018. Sobresaliente.

Tesis in progress:

• Cantos Delgado, C. A pragma-discursive analysis of the language of Tinder: a contrastive analysis English-Spanish. análisis pragmático discursivo de Tinder: estudio contrastivo inglés-español.
• Díaz García, A. “El uso de lenguaje agresivo en Twitter. estudio contrastivo entre español peninsular e inglés británico y americano”
• Díaz Muñoz, P. “Descortesía en sitios web de viajes: un análisis transcultural entre las quejas formuladas por hablantes británicos y españoles. / Impoliteness on travel websites: a cross-cultural analysis between British and Spanish complaints”