María Elena Placencia
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1162939 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | María Elena Placencia |
| NOMBRES | María Elena |
| APELLIDO | Placencia |
| FIRMA | PLACENCIA M E |
| AFILIACIONES | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5471-4661 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 51 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Expressing anger on Mexican X/Twitter
This paper examines anger expression in a corpus of 66 customer service complaints posted to the Mexican X/Twitter account of the online cab company, Uber. Specifically, building on work on emotions and (im)politeness as well as work on service-related anger episodes, it focuses on how these complainers signal their anger, and how these emotional expressions are related to rapport management orientation. Adopting a qualitative perspective, we obs…
"Ándate al páramo"
Este artículo examina las prácticas lingüísticas de usuarios de Twitter mediante las cuales se intenta discriminar y excluir a indígenas en el contexto ecuatoriano y los prejuicios detrás de estas prácticas. Para el estudio se seleccionaron las cuentas de tres líderes indígenas, activos en Twitter, y se construyó un corpus basado en las respuestas que los usuarios dan a los tuits de estos líderes (2944 respuestas); se recogieron los datos en un p…
Variación en el tratamiento nominal en español
Desde la perspectiva de la pragmática variacional (Schneider y Barron, 2008), este artículo compara el uso de formas de tratamiento nominal (FTN) en Facebook entre mujeres jóvenes de Quito, Ecuador, y Andalucía, España. Se examinan similitudes y diferencias en las categorías de FTN y mecanismos de modificación que se emplean, los actos de habla en los que ocurren, la posición que ocupan dentro de un enunciado, y las funciones que parecen cumplir …
In between spectacle and political correctness
Vamos con todo is a mixed-genre entertainment programme transmitted in Ecuador on a national television channel. The segment of the programme that we examine in this paper focuses on gossip and events surrounding local/national celebrities. Talk as entertainment is central to this segment which is structured around a series of ‘news’ stories announced by the presenters and mostly conveyed through (pre-recorded) interviews. Extracts of these inter…
Research on Politeness in the Spanish-Speaking World
Studies on Politeness in Colombian, Ecuadorian, and Peruvian Spanish
In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of work on politeness in Colombian, Ecuadorian, and Peruvian Spanish. Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru comprise within their borders a number of subvarieties of Spanish, if shared morphosyntactic, lexical, or phonological features. The authors also consider early and more recent works that touch on politeness phenomena such as the use of particular syntactic, morphological, and lexical devices to mitiga…
Complimenting behaviour on Facebook
Compliment responses in face-to-face interaction have been extensively studied in different languages and cultures. Studies on complimenting behaviour in social-digital contexts are beginning to emerge (cf. Cirillo 2012; Placencia and Lower 2013; Maíz-Arévalo 2013). This paper aims to contribute to this emerging body of work by examining the responses to compliments made on Facebook (FB) by a group of women within an FB network in the US. While t…
Regional pragmatic variation in the use of the discourse marker pues in informal talk among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)
Nominal address and rapport management in informal interactions among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)
Nominal and pronominal address forms, which play a central role in the construction of interpersonal relations (cf
Your kids are so stinkin' cute
This paper examines complimenting behavior directed at members of one Facebook network of family and friends in the United States. It proposes a way of selecting a corpus for analysis within the online environment under scrutiny and offers a preliminary characterization of Facebook compliments in American English in relation to the form compliments take, common objects of complimenting and the key function(s) that they perform. As part of a multi…
Speech Acts Research
Speech acts research is, in general terms, concerned with examining what people do with language in interaction, such as exchange greetings, make requests, compliment, congratulate, or express sympathy to others.
(Non)Compliance with directives among family and friends
This study explores how middle-class Quiteños respond to certain convivial directives among family and friends that they are unable or unwilling to comply with. It examines some of the strategies which Quiteños employ to deal with the tensions that can arise from two conflicting forces: social pressure and individual wants. Close ties among family members and intimate friends often make refusals to certain directives difficult, so that people fee…
Pragmatic Variation in Corner Store Interactions in Quito and Madrid
This paper studies pragmatic variation in comer store interactions in Quito and Madrid, based on audio recordings in both cities. It focuses on variation in expressing interpersonal concerns in both contexts through the analysis of utterances of requests (for a product) and the sequences in which such requests are embedded. Concerning request realization and with reference to Blum-Kulka et al.'s (1989) framework, direct forms were most commonly e…
Rapport-building activities in corner shop interactions
This paper examines a range of interactional activities participants carry out in the course of corner shop transactions in Quito, Ecuador. These activities include: phatic communication exchanges as traditionally conceived, that is, conventionalized forms such as how-are-you and health inquiries; individualized exchanges in the form of conversational work around a range of topics (e.g. politics, health, school); and creative language play activi…
Suenos
Politeness in Ecuadorian Spanish
This paper examines politeness phenomena in Ecuadorian Spanish as reflected in the language of telephone conversations, and, as such, attempts to add another cultural perspective to the discussion of politeness issues and of Brown and Levinson's (1978, 1987) much criticized theory, in particular. It highlights some of the difficulties involved in the application of Brown and Levinson's theory to actual conversational data in Ecuadorian Spanish, s…
Rapport-building activities in corner shop interactions
This paper examines a range of interactional activities participants carry out in the course of corner shop transactions in Quito, Ecuador. These activities include: phatic communication exchanges as traditionally conceived, that is, conventionalized forms such as how-are-you and health inquiries; individualized exchanges in the form of conversational work around a range of topics (e.g. politics, health, school); and creative language play activi…
Politeness in Ecuadorian Spanish
This paper examines politeness phenomena in Ecuadorian Spanish as reflected in the language of telephone conversations, and, as such, attempts to add another cultural perspective to the discussion of politeness issues and of Brown and Levinson's (1978, 1987) much criticized theory, in particular. It highlights some of the difficulties involved in the application of Brown and Levinson's theory to actual conversational data in Ecuadorian Spanish, s…
Regional pragmatic variation in the use of the discourse marker pues in informal talk among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)
Your kids are so stinkin' cute
This paper examines complimenting behavior directed at members of one Facebook network of family and friends in the United States. It proposes a way of selecting a corpus for analysis within the online environment under scrutiny and offers a preliminary characterization of Facebook compliments in American English in relation to the form compliments take, common objects of complimenting and the key function(s) that they perform. As part of a multi…
Pragmatic Variation in Corner Store Interactions in Quito and Madrid
This paper studies pragmatic variation in comer store interactions in Quito and Madrid, based on audio recordings in both cities. It focuses on variation in expressing interpersonal concerns in both contexts through the analysis of utterances of requests (for a product) and the sequences in which such requests are embedded. Concerning request realization and with reference to Blum-Kulka et al.'s (1989) framework, direct forms were most commonly e…
Nominal address and rapport management in informal interactions among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)
Nominal and pronominal address forms, which play a central role in the construction of interpersonal relations (cf
Politeness in Ecuadorian Spanish
This paper examines politeness phenomena in Ecuadorian Spanish as reflected in the language of telephone conversations, and, as such, attempts to add another cultural perspective to the discussion of politeness issues and of Brown and Levinson's (1978, 1987) much criticized theory, in particular. It highlights some of the difficulties involved in the application of Brown and Levinson's theory to actual conversational data in Ecuadorian Spanish, s…
Suenos
Rapport-building activities in corner shop interactions
This paper examines a range of interactional activities participants carry out in the course of corner shop transactions in Quito, Ecuador. These activities include: phatic communication exchanges as traditionally conceived, that is, conventionalized forms such as how-are-you and health inquiries; individualized exchanges in the form of conversational work around a range of topics (e.g. politics, health, school); and creative language play activi…
Pragmatic Variation in Corner Store Interactions in Quito and Madrid
This paper studies pragmatic variation in comer store interactions in Quito and Madrid, based on audio recordings in both cities. It focuses on variation in expressing interpersonal concerns in both contexts through the analysis of utterances of requests (for a product) and the sequences in which such requests are embedded. Concerning request realization and with reference to Blum-Kulka et al.'s (1989) framework, direct forms were most commonly e…
(Non)Compliance with directives among family and friends
This study explores how middle-class Quiteños respond to certain convivial directives among family and friends that they are unable or unwilling to comply with. It examines some of the strategies which Quiteños employ to deal with the tensions that can arise from two conflicting forces: social pressure and individual wants. Close ties among family members and intimate friends often make refusals to certain directives difficult, so that people fee…
Speech Acts Research
Speech acts research is, in general terms, concerned with examining what people do with language in interaction, such as exchange greetings, make requests, compliment, congratulate, or express sympathy to others.
Your kids are so stinkin' cute
This paper examines complimenting behavior directed at members of one Facebook network of family and friends in the United States. It proposes a way of selecting a corpus for analysis within the online environment under scrutiny and offers a preliminary characterization of Facebook compliments in American English in relation to the form compliments take, common objects of complimenting and the key function(s) that they perform. As part of a multi…
Nominal address and rapport management in informal interactions among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)
Nominal and pronominal address forms, which play a central role in the construction of interpersonal relations (cf
Complimenting behaviour on Facebook
Compliment responses in face-to-face interaction have been extensively studied in different languages and cultures. Studies on complimenting behaviour in social-digital contexts are beginning to emerge (cf. Cirillo 2012; Placencia and Lower 2013; Maíz-Arévalo 2013). This paper aims to contribute to this emerging body of work by examining the responses to compliments made on Facebook (FB) by a group of women within an FB network in the US. While t…
Regional pragmatic variation in the use of the discourse marker pues in informal talk among university students in Quito (Ecuador), Santiago (Chile) and Seville (Spain)
Research on Politeness in the Spanish-Speaking World
Studies on Politeness in Colombian, Ecuadorian, and Peruvian Spanish
In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of work on politeness in Colombian, Ecuadorian, and Peruvian Spanish. Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru comprise within their borders a number of subvarieties of Spanish, if shared morphosyntactic, lexical, or phonological features. The authors also consider early and more recent works that touch on politeness phenomena such as the use of particular syntactic, morphological, and lexical devices to mitiga…
"Ándate al páramo"
Este artículo examina las prácticas lingüísticas de usuarios de Twitter mediante las cuales se intenta discriminar y excluir a indígenas en el contexto ecuatoriano y los prejuicios detrás de estas prácticas. Para el estudio se seleccionaron las cuentas de tres líderes indígenas, activos en Twitter, y se construyó un corpus basado en las respuestas que los usuarios dan a los tuits de estos líderes (2944 respuestas); se recogieron los datos en un p…
Variación en el tratamiento nominal en español
Desde la perspectiva de la pragmática variacional (Schneider y Barron, 2008), este artículo compara el uso de formas de tratamiento nominal (FTN) en Facebook entre mujeres jóvenes de Quito, Ecuador, y Andalucía, España. Se examinan similitudes y diferencias en las categorías de FTN y mecanismos de modificación que se emplean, los actos de habla en los que ocurren, la posición que ocupan dentro de un enunciado, y las funciones que parecen cumplir …
In between spectacle and political correctness
Vamos con todo is a mixed-genre entertainment programme transmitted in Ecuador on a national television channel. The segment of the programme that we examine in this paper focuses on gossip and events surrounding local/national celebrities. Talk as entertainment is central to this segment which is structured around a series of ‘news’ stories announced by the presenters and mostly conveyed through (pre-recorded) interviews. Extracts of these inter…
Expressing anger on Mexican X/Twitter
This paper examines anger expression in a corpus of 66 customer service complaints posted to the Mexican X/Twitter account of the online cab company, Uber. Specifically, building on work on emotions and (im)politeness as well as work on service-related anger episodes, it focuses on how these complainers signal their anger, and how these emotional expressions are related to rapport management orientation. Adopting a qualitative perspective, we obs…
Sociology (11 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (9 obras) · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (9 obras) · Digital Communication and Language (8 obras) · Political science (8 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Linguistics (7 obras) · Philosophy (7 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Social Psychology (6 obras)