Manuel Padilla Cruz

1. PUBLICATIONS

1.1. Books

• Padilla Cruz (ed.) (2016) Relevance Theory: Recent Developments, Current Challenges and Future Directions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. I.S.B.N. 9789027256737.
• Fernández Amaya, M. O. Hernández López, R. Gómez Morón, M. Padilla Cruz, M. Mejías Borrero and M. Relinque Barranca (eds.) (2012) (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 

1.2. Book chapters (peer-reviewed)

• Padilla Cruz, M. (forthcoming). “Reshaping epistemic identity on Twitter: A Spanish-English contrast”. In Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (eds.) Evaluating Identities: Case Studies from the Spanish Speaking World. Palgrave.
• Padilla Cruz, Manuel (In press, expected June 2023). “Understanding misunderstanding: A multidisciplinary perspective on its causes, factors and consequences”. In Michael N. Goldberg, Andreas Mauz & Christiane Tietz (eds.), Zu einer Urszene der Hermeneutik. Zürich. Leiden: Brill, 115-142.
• Padilla Cruz, Manuel. (In press, expected July 2023). “Humour at the Opening and Closing Phases of Service Encounters in Small Cafeterias and Bars in Seville: Comparing the Morning and Evening Segments”. In Esther Linares Bernabeu (ed.), Humour in Interactive Contexts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2020) “Evidential participles and epistemic vigilance”, in A. Piskorska (ed.), Relevance, Figuration and Continuity in Pragmatics. Figurative Language and Thought Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 69-93. I.S.B.N. 9789027205544. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2020) “El malentendido”, in V. Escandell Vidal, J. Amenós Pons and A. Ahern (eds.), Pragmática. Madrid: Akal, 384-407. I.S.B.N. 9788446048718. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2019) “Verbal humor and age in cafés and bars in Seville, Spain”, in J. C. Félix-Brasdefer and M. E. Placencia (eds.), Pragmatic Variation in Service Encounter Interactions across the Spanish-speaking World. London/New York: Routledge, 169-188. I.S.B.N. 978-1-13-847959-3. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2017) “On the origin and meaning of secondary interjections: a relevance-theoretic proposal”, in A. Piskorska and E. Wałaszewska (eds.), Applications of Relevance Theory: From Discourse to Morphemes. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 299-326. I.S.B.N. 978-1-4438-7280-5. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2016) “Three decades of relevance theory”, in M. Padilla Cruz (ed.), Relevance Theory: Recent Developments, Current Challenges and Future Directions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1-29. I.S.B.N. 9789027256737. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2016) “Some directions for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmatics”, in M. Padilla Cruz (ed.), Relevance Theory: Recent Developments, Current Challenges and Future Directions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 307-320. I.S.B.N. 9789027256737.  
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2015) “Pragmatics and discourse analysis”, in Carol A. Chapelle (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, 1-6. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2012) “Metarepresentation, attitudinal utterances and attitude combination: A relevance-theoretic approach”, in A. Piskorska (ed.), Relevance Studies in Poland. Volume 4: Essays on Language and Communication. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 75-88. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2012) “Cautious Optimism in Second Language Learning, or How to Make L2 Learners more Competent Hearers”, in E. Wałaszewska and A. Piskorska (eds.), Relevance Theory: More than Understanding. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 279-303. 
• Martínez López, Nuria and M. Padilla Cruz (2012) “Rapport Management by Spanish Learners of English as an L2 at the Opening Phase of Interaction in the Tourist Information Office: A Pragmatic Analysis”, in I. Elorza et al. (eds.), Empiricism and Analytical Tools for 21st Applied Linguistics. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca, 833-846.
• Fernández Amaya, M. O. Hernández López, R. Gómez Morón, M. Padilla Cruz, M. Mejías Borrero and M. Relinque Barranca (2012) “(Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication: An Overview”, in L. Fernández Amaya, M. O. Hernández López, R. Gómez Morón, M. Padilla Cruz, M. Mejías Borrero and M. Relinque Barranca (eds.), (Im)Politeness and Interpersonal Communication. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 1-33.

1.3. Articles in journals (peer-reviewed)

• Padilla Cruz, M. (Submitted). “‘Mentiroso’/’Lying bastards’: Questioning epistemic personhood in Spanish and English on Twitter. In P. Bou Franch & Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (eds.), Evaluating Identities Online: Case Studies from the Spanish-speaking world. Palgrave-Macmillan.
• Padilla Cruz, M. (Submitted). “Attacking epistemic personhood on Twitter: A Spanish-corpus based examination”. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict.
• Padilla Cruz, Manuel (2022). “Is free enrichment always free? Revisiting ad hoc-concept construction”. Journal of Pragmatics 187, 130-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.11.006
• Padilla Cruz, Manuel & Agnieszka Piskorska (2022). “New developments in relevance theory”. Pragmatics & Cognition 28 (2): 223-227. https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.00024.int
• Padilla Cruz, Manuel (2022). “Dialogical humour in evening service encounters in the hospitality industry in Seville, Spain”. International Review of Pragmatics 14 (2): 169-197. https://doi.org/10.1163/18773109-01402002
• Padilla Cruz, Manuel (2022, online first). “Paralanguage and ad hoc concepts”. Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.21059.pad
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2022) “On the interpretation of utterances with expressive expletives”. Pragmatics & Cognition, 28 (2): 252-276.  https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.21008.pad
• Padilla Cruz, M. (In press – -expected March 2023) “Ad hoc concepts, affective attitude and epistemic stance”. Pragmatics & Cognition.
• Arróniz Parra, Santiago and Manuel Padilla Cruz (2022) “Joke identification, comprehension and appreciation by Spanish intermediate ESL learners: An exploratory study”. European Journal of Humour Research 10 (1): 108-133.  https://doi.org/10.7592/EJHR2022.10.1.633
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2022) “Is free enrichment always free? Revisiting ad hoc-concept construction”. Journal of Pragmatics 187: 130-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.11.006
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2021) “The role of humorous elements in Cádiz chirigotas in creating/reinforcing a local identity: A relevance-theoretic approach”. Spanish in Context 18 (1), pp. 136-159. I.S.S.N. 1571-0718. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2020) “Towards a relevance-theoretic approach to the diminutive morpheme”. Russian Journal of Linguistics 24 (4), pp. 774-795. I.S.S.N. 2687-0088 (Print) I.S.S.N.: 2686-8024 (Online). 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2020) “Review of Alba-Juez, L., & Larina, T. (2018). The discourse of emotions [Special issue]. Russian Journal of Linguistics 22(1). 185 pages”. Russian Journal of Communication 12 (3), pp. 110-113. I.S.S.N. 1940-9419,  I.S.S.N. Online: 1940-9427. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2020) “Dismissive Incomprehension Revis(it)ed: Testimonial Injustice, Competence, Face and Silence. A New Reply to Cull.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 9 (3), pp. 34-43. I.S.S.N. 2471-9560. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2019) “Reconsidering dismissive incomprehension—Its relation to epistemic injustices, its damaging nature, and a research agenda: A reply to Cull”. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8 (11), pp. 42-51. I.S.S.N. 2471-9560. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2019) “Qualifying insults, offensive epithets, slurs and expressive expletives: A relevance-theoretic approach”. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 7 (2), pp. 156-181. I.S.S.N. 2213-1272. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2019) “On the successfulness of venting and its venues”. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8 (2), pp. 39-48. I.S.S.N. 2471-9560. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2019) “On the pragmatic and conversational features of venting: A reply to Thorson and Baker”. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8 (2), pp. 21-30. I.S.S.N. 2471-9560. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2019) “Dealing with jokes in the ESL class: A pedagogical proposal centred on comprehension”. Letrônica 12 (4), pp. 1-16. I.S.S.N. 1984-4301. 
• Lopes Perna, Cristina, Manuel Padilla Cruz and Giselle Liana Fetter (2019) “Interlanguage pragmatics and instructional pragmatics: Two vibrant and illuminating research fields”. Letrônica 12 (4), pp. 1-5. I.S.S.N. 1984-4301. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2018) “Pragmatic competence injustice”. Social Epistemology. A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy 32 (3), pp. 143-163. I.S.S.N. 0269-1728; Online I.S.S.N. 1464-5297. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2018) “One thing is testimonial injustice and another is conceptual competence injustice. Reply to Podosky and Tuckwell”. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7 (3), pp. 9-19. I.S.S.N. 2471-9560. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2018) “Expressive APs and expletive NPs revisited: Refining the extant relevance-theoretic procedural account”. Lingua 205, pp. 54-70. I.S.S.N. 0024-3841. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2017) “On the usefulness of the notion of ‘conceptual competence injustice’ to Linguistic Pragmatics”. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6 (4): 12-19. I.S.S.N. 2471-9560. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2017) “Interlocutors-related and hearer-specific causes of misunderstanding: Processing strategy, confirmation bias and weak vigilance”. Research in Language 15(1), pp. 11-36. I.S.S.N. (Online): 2083-4616, I.S.S.N. (Print): 1731-7533. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2017) “Conceptual competence injustice and relevance theory, a reply to Derek Anderson”. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6(12), pp. 39-50. I.S.S.N. 2471-9560. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. and Nuria Martínez López (2017) “Interlanguage pragmatics in a service encounter: Diagnosing how Spanish learners of English for the Tourism Industry inform at a visitor centre”. Letras de Hoje 52(3): 310-321. I.S.S.N. 1984-7726. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2016) “Vigilance mechanisms in interpretation: Hermeneutical vigilance”. Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 133(1), pp. 21-29. I.S.S.N. 1897-1059; e-I.S.S.N. 2083-4624. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2016) “Review of Humour and Relevance, by Francisco Yus”. Philologia Hispalensis 30(1), pp. 275-287. I.S.S.N. 1132-0265; eI.S.S.N. 2253-8321. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2015) “On the role of vigilance in the interpretation of puns”. Humor. International Journal of Humor Research 28(3), pp. 469-490. I.S.S.N. 1613-3722. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2015) “Fostering EF/SL learners’ pragmatic awareness of complaints and their interactive effects”. Language Awareness 24(2): 123-137. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2014) “Pragmatic failure, epistemic injustice and epistemic vigilance”. Language & Communication 39: 34-50. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2013) “Understanding and Overcoming Pragmatic Failure in Intercultural Communication: from Focus on Speakers to Focus on Hearers”, International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL) 51(1): 23-54. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2013) “Metapsychological awareness of comprehension and epistemic vigilance of L2 communication in interlanguage pragmatic development”. Journal of Pragmatics 59A: 117-135. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2013) “An Integrative Proposal to Teach the Pragmatics of Phatic Communion in ESL Classes”. Intercultural Pragmatics 10(1): 131-160. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2012) “Epistemic Vigilance, Cautious Optimism and Sophisticated Understanding”. Research in Language 10 (4): 365-386. 

2. LECTURES AND TALKS

2.1. Guest lectures

• Padilla Cruz, M. 2023. El humor en el Carnaval de Cádiz: Una aproximación pragmática al subgénero carnavalesco de las chirigotas”. II Simposio Internacional sobre el humor verbal. El humor interactivo. University of Seville, 3rd March 2023. More information here:  Plenaristas – II Simposio Internacional sobre el Humor Verbal. El Humor Interactivo (ua.es)
• Padilla Cruz, Manuel. 2022. “Morphological, lexical, phrasal and clausal triggers of ad hoc concept construction”. Relevance Researchers Network. Dublin City University. 26 January 2022.
• Padilla Cruz, Manuel. 2022. “On the contribution of interjections to communication and their use, again: Non-propositional effects, morality and communicative injustices”. Doing ethics: Interdisciplinary perspectives on communicative practices and verbal devices. Universität Bayreuth. 10 October 2022.
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2022) “Relevance-theoretic lexical pragmatics”. Seminari di Pragmatica. Università degli Studi di Padova. 15 March 2022. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2022) “Morphological, lexical, phrasal and clausal triggers of ad hoc concept construction”. Relevance Researchers Network. Dublin City University. 26 January 2022. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2021) “Interpreting humour”. Seminari di Pragmatica. Università degli Studi di Padova. 16 November 2021. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2020) “Understanding insults, offensive epithets and slurs”. Linguistics Research Seminars. Autumn Term 2020. University of Huddersfield. 25 November 2020. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2019) “On the consequences of misunderstanding: An approach from pragmatics, conversation analysis and social epistemology”. 4. Jahrestagung Network for Hermeneutics and Interpretation Theory: Missvertstehen. Zu einer Ursene der Hermeneutik. Institut für Hermeneutik und Religionsphilosophie, Universität Zürich. 5 October 2019. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2019) “Is free enrichment always that free? Revisiting ad hoc concept construction”. Relevance by the Sea Workshop. University of Brighton. 6 November 2019. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2017) “Current research trends in pragmatics”. PhD Seminar “Current Research Trends in English Linguistics”, PhD Programme in Philology Studies. Universidad de Sevilla. 25 April 2017. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2016) “Injusticias comunicativas. Un enfoque desde la pragmática y a epistemología social”. Ciclo de conferencias “Mente, conciencia y subjetividad”, PhD Programme in Philosophy. Universidad de Sevilla. 19 May 2016. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2015) “Understanding verbal humour: The role of vigilance in its comprehension”. I Workshop on Advanced Studies on Humour and Gender. Universidad de Alicante. 26 November 2015. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2015) “Researching epistemic vigilance in interlanguage pragmatic development”. Université de Neuchâtel. 29 April 2015. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2015) “On the role of epistemic vigilance in comprehension”. Université de Fribourg. 30 April 2015. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2012) “Teaching ESL Students to Be Epistemically Vigilant Language Users”. Instytut Anglistiki, Uniwersytet Warszawski. 19 March 2012. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2012) “Applying Relevance-theoretic Pragmatics to Second Language Teaching”. Linguistic Circle Seminar Series. Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta. 25 April 2012. 

2.2. Conference presentations

• Padilla Cruz, M. (2023). (Re)Claiming epistemic personhood in Spanish on Twitter: A corpus-based examination of responses to attacks to epistemic personhood. Panel “Conflict talk in Spanish digital interactions”, 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Brussels, 9-14th July 2023.
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2022). “Ataques a la personalidad epistémica en las redes sociales: Un análisis de un corpus de incomprensión despreciativa”. 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.
• Padilla Cruz (2022) “On the role of determiners as markers of ad hoc concept construction”. XXXIX Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 27 April 2022.
• Padilla Cruz (2022) “Teaching the diminutive in the L2 Spanish class: A relevance-theoretic proposal”. 50º Simposio /IV Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Lingüística. CCHS, CSIC. Madrid. 8 April 2022.
• Padilla Cruz (2022) “Challenging epistemic personhood: Dismissive incomprehension”. 1st International Conference on Sources of Knowledge in Talk-in-Interaction. Università della Svizzera Italiana. 8 February 2022.
• Padilla Cruz (2021) “On dismissive incomprehension: Impoliteness, face and a research agenda”. 13th International Conference on (Im)Politeness. Universität Basel. 24 June 2021.
• Padilla Cruz (2021) “Humour in small bars and cafés in Seville: Age-motivated variation in evening service encounters”. 17th International Pragmatics Conference. School of Applied Linguistics. Universität Zürich, Winterthur. 1 July 2021.
• Padilla Cruz (2021) “Ad hoc concepts and non-propositional meaning”. Societas Linguistica Europaea 54th Annual Meeting. Open Science Framework Platform and Zoom. 30 August 2021.
• Padilla Cruz (2020) “Is ad hoc-concept construction linguistically triggered?” IX Encuentros de Pragmática Intercultural, Cognitiva y Social (E.P.I.C.S. IX). Universidad Pablo de Olavide. 4 November 2020.
• Padilla Cruz (2019) “Towards a relevance-theoretic procedural account of diminutive morphemes”. 33rd International Conference of the Croatian Association for Applied Linguistics “Meaning in language – from individual to collective”. University of Rijeka. 16 May 2019.
• Padilla Cruz (2019) “Towards a relevance-theoretic procedural approach to diminutive and augmentative morphemes”. 3rd International Budapest Conference in Linguistics. Eötvös Loránd University. 7 June 2019.
• Padilla Cruz (2019) “Towards a relevance-theoretic procedural account of pejorative morphology”. 52nd International Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea. Universität Leipzig. 22 August 2019.
• Padilla Cruz (2019) “Age variation in humour during service encounters in small bars and cafes in Seville”. Congreso Internacional sobre Humor Verbal. Universidad de Alicante. 24 October 2019.
• Padilla Cruz (2019) “A relevance-theoretic approach to qualifying insults, offensive epithets and racial/ethnic slurs”. 12th International Conference on (Im)Politeness. Anglia Ruskin University. 18 July 2019.
• Padilla Cruz (2018) “Slurs, expressive APs and expletive NPs: A relevance-theoretic account of their similarities and differences”. 11th International Conference on Im/Politeness. Universidad de Valencia. 4 de julio de 2018.
• Padilla Cruz (2018) “On the relevance-theoretic distinction between lower- and higher-level explicatures”. 8th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication. University of Cyprus. 8 June 2018.
• Padilla Cruz (2018) “On the procedural semantics of lexical ítems used as expressives and intensifiers”. 51st Societas Linguistica Europaea Annual Meeting. University of Tallinn. 30 August 2018.
• Padilla Cruz (2018) “On the evidential function of some participial adjectives: A procedural analysis”. 2nd International Conference on Argumentation and Language. Università della Svizzera Italiana. 8 February 2018.
• Padilla Cruz (2018) “Communicative injustices: Conceptualising some negative perlocutionary effects of communicative behaviour”. VIII Encuentros de Pragmática Intercultural, Cognitiva y Social. Universidad de Sevilla. 3 May 2018.
• Padilla Cruz (2017) “The construction and/or reinforcement of a local identity through humour: The case of Cádiz Carnival”. 15th International Pragmatics Conference. University of Ulster. 18 July 2017.
• Padilla Cruz (2017) “Revisiting the procedural account of expressive APs and expletive NPs”. Beyond Meaning International Conference. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 13 September 2017.
• Padilla Cruz (2017) “On an unexpected consequence of miscommunication: Pragmatic competence injustice”. 2nd International Conference on Communication and Cognition. University of Fribourg. 9 February 2017.
• Padilla Cruz (2016) “On hearer-related causes of misunderstanding: Additional factors hampering understanding”. 7th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication. University of Split. 10 June 2016.
• Padilla Cruz (2016) “Conceptualising the unexpected perlocutionary effects of misuse or lack of vocabulary”. International Linguistics Conference “Between (Stable) Meanings and (Unstable) Interpretations”. Instytut Filologii Angielskiej. Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Kraków. 15 September 2016.
• Padilla Cruz (2016) “Awareness of pragmatic factors motivating responses to complaints at the hotel front desk by Spanish B1 learners of English for the Tourism Industry”. 13th International Conference of the Association of Language Awareness. Vienna University of Economics and Business. 20 July 2016.
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2016) “Vigilance and (mis)understanding in mediated communication: Directions for research”. VII Encuentros de Pragmática Intercultural, Cognitiva y Social (EPICS VII). Departamento de Filología y Traducción. Universidad Pablo de Olavide. 5 May 2016. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2016) “Relevance theory and vigilance mechanisms: Evidence for hermeneutical vigilance and avenues for research”. 34º Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada (AESLA). Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas (IULMA). Universidad de Alicante. 15 April 2016. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2015) “Some challenges for future research in relevance-theoretic pragmatics: Procedural meaning and beyond”. Relevance Roundtable Meeting 4. Instytut Anglistiki, Uniwersytet Jagielloński. 25 September 2015. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2015) “Overcoming accidental impoliteness: Internal vigilance, cautious optimism and epistemic friction”. 9th International Im/Politeness Conference. University of Athens. 2 July 2015. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2015) “Misunderstanding and accidental relevance in intercultural communication: An account of the origin and ontology of negative stereotyping”. International Communication Association Conference. Uniwersytet Łódzki. 11 April 2015. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2015) “Dealing with guests’ complaints at the hotel front desk: A pragmatic analysis of performance by Spanish learners of English for the tourism industry”. 14th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association. University of Antwerp. 28 July 2015. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2014) “Unmotivated impoliteness and hermeneutical injustice”. 8th International Conference on Politeness. Centre for Intercultural Politeness Research and Linguistic Politeness Research Group. University of Huddersfield. 9 July 2014. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2014) “Participial adjectives and epistemic vigilance”. 7th Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation Conference. Instytut Anglistiki, Uniwersytet Warszawski. 29 September 2014. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2014) “Hermeneutical vigilance”. 2nd International Conference of the American Association of Pragmatics. University of California at Los Angeles. 19 October 2014. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2014) “Attitudinal adjectives: A relevance-theoretic approach”. 6th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication. Institute of Linguistics, University of Malta. La Valletta. 31 May 2014. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2013) “Puns, relevance and epistemic vigilance”. Meaning, Context and Cognition 3 Conference. Chair of English Language and Applied Linguistics. Uniwersytet Łódzki. 12 April 2013. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2013) “Epistemic vigilance and jokes”. 19e Congrès International des Linguistes. Université de Genève. 22 July 2013. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2013) “Epistemic vigilance and (im)politeness”. Teaching and Learning (Im)Politeness. Linguistic Politeness Research Group (LPRG) y School of Oriental and African Languages. University of London. 8 July 2013. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2013) “An integrative proposal to teach direct and indirect complaints in the ESL class”. Pragmatics on the Go. Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari. Università degli Studi di Padova. 20 June 2013. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2012) “Why may secondary interjections have different meanings? A Relevance-theoretic proposal”. 6th Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation Conference. Instytut Anglistiki. Uniwersytet Warszawski. 26 September 2012. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2012) “Raising ESL learners’ metapragmatic awareness of phatic communion: a methodological proposal”. 11th International Conference of the Association for Language Awareness. Department of Education. Concordia University. Montreal. 11 July 2012. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2012) “On the origin of secondary interjections: A relevance-theoretic proposal”. V Encuentros de Pragmática Intercultural, Cognitiva y Social (E.P.I.C.S. V). Departamento de Filología y Traducción. Universidad Pablo de Olavide. 14 March 2012. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2012) “Epistemic vigilance in intercultural communication”. 5th Intercultural Pragmatics Conference and 1st International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association. University of North Carolina at Charlotte. 20 October 2012. 
• Padilla Cruz, M. (2012) “Epistemic vigilance and sophisticated understanding in verbal communication”. Meaning, Context and Cognition 2012 Conference. Chair of English Language and Applied Linguistics. Uniwersytet Łódzki. 23 March 2012. 
• Nuria Martínez López and Manuel Padilla Cruz (2013) “Giving information at the tourist information office: a pragmatic analysis of rapport-management by Spanish learners of English in Tourism”. 1st International Conference on Service Encounters and Cross-cultural Communication. Departamento de Filología y Traducción. Universidad Pablo de Olavide. 1 February 2013. 
• Julija Spirkoska and Manuel Padilla Cruz (2012) “Teaching offers in the EFL class: what interlanguage pragmatics can tell us”. 4th International Conference on Teaching English as a Foreign Language – “What do ELT professionals need to know about language, about learning. Facultade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais. Universidade Nova de Lisboa. 23 November 2012. 

3) Editorship and Advisory Work 

3.1 Series Editor 

• Co-editor of the Book Series Advances in Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Newcastle upon Tyne). 

3.2 Membership to Advisory Boards 

• Member of the Advisory Board of Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, published by Mouton de Gruyter.
• Member of the Advisory Board of Research in Language, published by Mouton de Gruyter.
• Member of the Advisory Board of Verbum et Lingua, published by the University of Guadalajara (Mexico).
• Member of the Advisory Board of BELT (Brazilian English Language Teaching) Journal.
• Member of the Advisory Board of Estudios de Lingüística de la Universidad de Alicante (ELUA).