Scientific production
Scientific production from July 2021 (the date of the research group’s creation)
Publications
Bou-Franch, P. (2023). The lived experience of place in a Twitter affinity space around the death of sports celebrity Maradona. In A. Parini & F. Yus (Eds.), The Discursive Construction of Place in the Digital Age, pp. 95-120. Routledge
Bou-Franch, P. (2022). Morality, aggression, and social activism in a transmedia sport controversy. Language in Communication, 84, 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.02.001
Bou-Franch, P. (2021). “Maleducados/Ill-mannered” during the #A28 political campaign on Twitter: A metapragmatic study of impoliteness labels and comments in Spanish. (Thematic issue: New perspectives on Conflict). Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 9(2), 271-296. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00048.bou
Bou-Franch, P. (2021). Evaluation, conflict, and prescriptive metapragmatic comments: (Re)constructing transmedia stories. In M. Johansson, S-K. Tanskanen & J. Chovanec (Eds.), Analysing Digital Discourses: Between Convergence and Controversy. (pp. 189-217). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84602-2_8
Bou-Franch, P. (2021). Pragmatics and digital discourse in Spanish research. In D. A. Koike & J. C. Félix-Brasdefer (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of Spanish pragmatics: Foundations and interfaces (pp. 533-547). New York: Routledge. (ISBN: 9781138316461). https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Spanish-Pragmatics-Foundations-and-Interfaces/Koike-Felix-Brasdefer/p/book/9780367514617
Cantos Delgado, C. & Maíz-Arévalo, C. (forthcoming). “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.
Díaz Muñoz, P. & Maíz-Arévalo, C. (forthcoming). “We are completely stunned”: Corrective facework in hosts’ responses to Airbnb negative reviews. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict.
Fernández-Amaya, L. (forthcoming) Women empowered through grey hair: analysis of self-presentation on Instagram profiles. In P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich & Bou-Franch, P. (eds.) Evaluating Identities: Case Studies from the Spanish Speaking World. Palgrave.
Fernández-Amaya, L. (2022) A Linguistic Overview of WhatsApp Communication. Leiden: Brill. ISBN: 978-90-04-51905-3 (Hardback), 978-90-04-51906-0 (E-Book) https://brill.com/display/book/9789004519060/BP000009.xml
Fernández-Amaya, L. (2021) Online disagreement in WhatsApp groups: A comparative study of Spanish family members and work colleagues. Discourse and Communication, 15(5), 542-558. ISSN: 1750-4813. DOI: 10.1177/17504813211017711 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/17504813211017711
Fuentes Rodríguez, Catalina, & Placencia, María Elena (Eds.). (2023). Variación pragmática regional en contextos digitales: los marcadores del discurso São Paulo: ALFAL/Líquido Editorial.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (in preparation, 2024). The pragmatics of intergroup communication. Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (forthcoming, end of 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. (2022). Moral emotions, good moral panics, social regulation, and online public shaming. Language & Communication, 84- 61-75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2022.02.002
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2022). Karen: Stigmatized social identity and face-threat in the on/offline nexus. Journal of Pragmatics, 188:14-30. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.11.012
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. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-84602-2
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (Eds.) (in preparation, end of 2023) Evaluating identities online: Case studies from the Spanish speaking world. Palgrave Macmillan.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (forthcoming). Identities in conflict: Latinos in Spain. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict.
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 Parini, A. & Yus, F. (Eds.), The Discursive Construction of Place in the Digital Age, pp. 121-151. Routledge
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Georgakopoulou, A. (in preparation, end of 2023) Influencers and ‘fans’: The pragmatics of affect and hate in the construction of social media celebrities. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
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. & Márquez Reiter, R. (eds.) (in preparation – 2024) Advances in Contrastive Pragmatics. Case studies from Spanish(es). Journal of Contrastive Pragmatics.
Hernández-López, M. (2024) Changing Discursive Trends in the Online Review Genre: A Cross-Linguistic Study of BlablaCar. Brill.
Hernández-López, M. (forthcoming). Metacommunication and the discursive construction of identity in peer-to-peer reviews. In Evaluating Online Identities: Case Studies from the Spanish Speaking World. Palgrave MacMIillan.
Hernández-López, M. (forthcoming). When dissatisfactory experiences turn into conflict: a contrastive study of negative Spanish product and experience-based reviews on Trustpilot. Journal of Language aggression and Conflict.
Hernández-López, M. (2024) Millennial Identity Work in BlablaCar Online Reviews. Pragmatics, 34 (1): 134-159. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.21066.her
Hernández López, María de la O (2022). When travellers’ expectations are not met: Dispraise in Airbnb online consumer reviews. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 8(2): 241-268. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00041.her
Lower, Amanda, & Placencia, María Elena. (2022). Variación en el tratamiento nominal en español: una comparación de su empleo entre jóvenes ecuatorianas y españolas en Facebook. Filología, http://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/filologia/article/view/12241.
Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2024). The power of self-presentation. Spanish speakers constructing digital identity. Palgrave.
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.
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.
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. (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. https://benjamins.com/catalog/pbns.318
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.
Marquez Reiter, R., & Bou-Franch, P. (forthcoming). Conflictual interactions and morality on Facebook. The case of interpellations.
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, M. (forthcoming). “Attacking epistemic personhood on Twitter: A Spanish-corpus based examination”. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict.
Placencia, M.E. (forthcoming). Racial slurs in conflict talk on Ecuadorian Twitter interactions: Same negative beliefs – old and new realizations. In Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (eds.) Evaluating Identities: Case Studies from the Spanish Speaking World. Palgrave.
Placencia, María Elena. (2022). “Ándate al páramo”: prácticas lingüísticas de exclusión y prejuicios en contra de los indígenas en la interacción interétnica en Twitter (Ecuador). Oralia, 25(2), 125-153. https://ojs.ual.es/
Placencia, M.E., and Lower, A. (forthcoming). Variación regional en el empleo de formas de tratamiento nominal en Facebook entre mujeres jóvenes ecuatorianas y españolas. Special issue on address forms in the Spanish-speaking world.
Placencia, M. E. & Parini, A. (Eds.) (in preparation). Introducción al estudio del discurso digital en español. Routledge.
Placencia, M.E., & Powell, H. (2023) The role of location information sharing in e-service encounters on Mercado Libre. In Parini, A. & Yus, F. (Eds.), The Discursive Construction of Place in the Digital Age, pp. 210-232. Routledge
Powell, Hebe, & Placencia, María Elena. (under review). Rapport management in service complaints to taxi-cab companies on Twitter: The case of Uber in in Mexico and Spain.
Ros-Velasco, J. & Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2022). Experiencias con la aplicación educativa Vevox en la UCM. Aula de Encuentro, 24 (2): 170-188.
Vladimirou, D. & Fernández-Amaya, L. (forthcoming) “’Shut up and resign’: A contrastive investigation of gender-based online aggression on Twitter”. Special Issue Advances in Contrastive Pragmatics. Case studies from Spanish(es). Contrastive Pragmatics.
Žákovská, I., Maíz-Arévalo, C., & Cao, Y. (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, 11(1), 143-167.
Yus, F., & Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2023). Interpreting Covid-related memes. In The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts (Linares Bernabéu, E. ed.), John Benjamins, pp. 6-31.
Presentations at national and international conferences
Panels
“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.
De Pablos-Ortega, C. (2022). “La identidad de género en las reseñas online: un análisis contrastive”
Fernández-Amaya, L. (2022). “El empoderamiento femenino a través de las canas: análisis de las autopresentaciones en los perfiles de Instagram”
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Fran, P. (2022). “La identidad latina en España: construcción discursiva (y conflictiva) en la red”
Hernández López, M. (2022). “La metacomunicación en las evaluaciones de BlaBlaCar: un estudio contrastivo”
Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2022). “Padre y politico: La autopresentación de los diputados españoles en la red Twitter”
Padilla Cruz, M. (2022). “Ataques a la personalidad epistémica en las redes sociales: Un análisis de un corpus de incomprensión despreciativa”
“Conflict talk in Spanish digital interactions”, 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Brussels, 9-14th July 2023
SESSION 1
Díaz Muñoz, P. & Maíz-Arévalo, C. (2023). “We are completely stunned”: Corrective facework in hosts’ responses to AirBnB negative reviews
Hernández-López, M. (2023). Are all negative reviews alike? A contrastive study of conflictual language in product and experience-based reviews
Van Herck, R. & Vangehuchten, L. (2023). Conversational Human Voice in answers to complaints in the telecommunications sector: A contrastive genre analysis of English and Spanish emails
SESSION 2
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2023). Colorism and the Latino identity
Padilla Cruz, M. (2023). (Re)Claiming epistemic personhood in Spanish on Twitter: A corpus-based examination of responses to attacks to epistemic personhood
Albelda Marco, M. & Kotwica, D. (2023). Disagreement and reliability in comments for and against COVID vaccination on Facebook: Scientific vs personal evidence
Carrió-Pastor, M.L. (2023). ‘No es mi presidente, es un delincuente’: Aggressive digital interactions on Pedro Sánchez tweets
Individual contributions
Bou-Franch, P. (2022). Solidaridad y ofensa en Twitter. 2do Seminario Internacional sobre el Discurso de Twitter. Universidad Politécnica de València, 15.12.2022. (Invited lecture)
Bou-Franch, P. (2022). La pragmática del conflicto verbal en el discurso digital. IV Congreso Internacional de la Red de Estudios de la Comunicación por Ordenador – RECOD. Alicante, October 6-7. (Plenary)
Bou Franch, P. (2022). Twitter as a site for mourning and protesting: the discursive construction of place. 3rd International Conference Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis – ADDA3. Saint Petersburgh, Florida. 13-15 May 2022.
Bou-Franch, P. (2021). Transmedia Stories and Evaluative Discourse: Between Aggression and Activism. Conference on Audiovisual Translation and Computer-Mediated Communication: Fostering Access to Digital Mediascapes. Palermo, October 2021. (Plenary)
Bou Franch, P., & Palomino Manjón, P. (2022). Praising, protesting and violence against women: A case study from Twitter. 10th International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics – EPICS X. Sevilla, May 2022.
Bou Franch, P., & Palomino Manjón, P. (2022). Estudio pragmático-discursivo de ‘pésames’ en Twitter: entre la excelencia deportiva y el abuso sexual. 39 Congreso de la Asociación Española de Lingüística Aplicada – AESLA. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. 27-29 April 2022.
Bou Franch, P., & Palomino Manjón, P. (2021). A corpus-based metapragmatic study of Twitter ‘obituaries’: Between sport excellence and sexual abuse. XII International Conference on Corpus Linguistics – CILC XII. Murcia/online.
Díaz Muñoz, P. (2022). La gestión de relaciones interpersonales en Airbnb: Un análisis transcultural de las reseñas negativas escritas por usuarios españoles y británicos. IV Congreso Internacional RECOD: En torno a la comunicación digital en español: cultura participativa y discurso en la red, Alicante, 6-7 October 2022.
Fernández-Amaya, L. (2021). “Martin left the group”: Covid-19 crisis management as a source of conflict among Spanish workmates using WhatsApp. 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur (Switzerland), 27 June-2 July 2021.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2022). The multimodal construction of conflictual identities: Karen. Universitat Jaume I, December 20, 2022. (Invited lecture)
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (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. (Plenary)
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (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. (Invited lecture)
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (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. (Plenary)
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
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. 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur (Switzerland), 27 June-2 July 2021.
Hernández López, María de la O (2021). Millennials’ discursive practices in sharing economy platforms: The case of BlaBlaCar. 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur (Switzerland), 27 June-2 July 2021.
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. 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur (Switzerland), 27 June-2 July 2021.
Márquez-Reiter, R., & Bou-Franch, P. (2021). Interpellations and relational violence in a ‘non’-civic public space. 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur (Switzerland), 27 June-2 July 2021.
Placencia, M.E. (2022). Discriminación y racismo en Twitter. Latin American House, London, 4 May 2022 (Invited lecture).
Placencia, M.E. (2021). “Ándate al páramo”: Prácticas lingüísticas de exclusión y discriminación en la interacción interétnica ecuatoriana en Twitter. American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA) International Symposium, Buenos Aires (12-13 Nov 2021) [Plenary]
Placencia, M.E. (2021) Ethnically motivated slurs and other insults against Ecuadorian indigenous leaders on Twitter. 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur (Switzerland), 27 June-2 July 2021.
Powell, H. and Placencia, M.E. (2021) Customer complaints directed towards private taxi-cab companies on Twitter: a comparison of strategies used in Spain and Mexico. 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur (Switzerland), 27 June-2 July 2021.
Organised conferences:
2022 – EPICS X – http://eventos.upo.es/go/EPICSX. Organised by Manuel Padilla Cruz, Lucía Fernández Amaya and María de la O Hernández López.
2022 – ADDA 3 – https://adda3.org/ Organised by Patricia Bou Franch and Pilar Garcés Conejos-Blitvich.
2023 – ADDA 4 – https://conference2.aau.at/event/164/overview Organised by Patricia Bou Franch and Pilar Garcés Conejos-Blitvich.