Barbara De Cock
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 85194 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Barbara De Cock |
| NOMBRES | Barbara |
| APELLIDO | De Cock |
| FIRMA | DE COCK B |
| AFILIACIONES | UCLouvain |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6968-3880 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2006 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Los términos populismo(s) y populista(s) en debates parlamentarios españoles
Esta investigación estudia en qué medida la referencia al populismo participa en la fijación de posición en contexto de debate político. Para ello, se analizan las 69 ocurrencias de populismo(s) y populista(s) en intervenciones reactivas a propuestas o comparecencias políticas en debates parlamentarios españoles del 2019. Basándose en una metodología desarrollada en el marco del proyecto TrUMPo, el análisis identifica los contextos de aparición d…
How to Start a Request? A Contrastive Study of Alerters in Spanish by Speakers of L1 Spanish and L1 French
The formulation of requests has been widely studied in pragmatics, both within a (variety of) language and from a contrastive perspective. In this study, we will show the specific role of alerters (elements that precede the request head act and that serve to get the attention of the hearer on the request) in request formulation, comparing L1 speakers of Spanish and L2 speakers of Spanish with L1 French in Discourse Completion Tests and Naturalise…
“I am not populist”
Situated within studies on discourses about populism ( De Cleen et al., 2018 ), this paper zooms in on the use, meanings, and role of the word populist in contemporary socio-political debates and, more specifically, on social media. This paper examines populist as stigma term ( Kranert, 2020 ) and seeks to determine how people negotiate their categorisation as (non-)populist — and hence the meaning of this category — on Twitter. Based on the anal…
The Discourse of Digital Activism
In this study, we analyze the calls for action in a corpus of tweets with the hashtag #FashionRevolution, related to the 2020 Fashion Revolution week. We offer a linguistic analysis of the discourse of digital activism, relying on insights from pragmatics, discourse analysis, and argumentation. Our analysis focuses on the calls for action concerning the move towards a more sustainable fashion system, issued by account owners that do not have any …
How diabetes forum-users complain about others’ expectations
This article offers a qualitative analysis of two instances of troubles-telling threads on a diabetes forum, with a specific focus on how these instances contribute to constructing a way to manage others’ expectations concerning how persons diagnosed with diabetes control their condition. From the perspective of conversation analysis and discursive psychology, this article shows some recurrent features of both troubles-telling (namely announcemen…
Beyond Bleeps and Bounds
Streaming platforms have transformed series distribution and accessibility, with Spanish-language shows gaining immense popularity, notably "La casa de papel" (Money Heist). This series features a diverse cast of characters whose linguistic diversity extends to the use of taboo language. Previous studies have shown that linguistic immersion, such as staying abroad, significantly impacts knowledge of this kind of language. This paper aims to explo…
Patrones de empatía en dos foros virtuales
La empatía lingüística constituye un sistema dinámico de lenguaje de carácter interpersonal que varía en función de la situación comunicativa. Puede plantearse, por consiguiente, que existen patrones (o estilos) de construcción empática característicos y particulares para cada tipo de interacción. En el presente estudio, examinamos las estrategias empáticas desplegadas en dos grupos de apoyo en línea: un foro de recuperación de un trastorno de la…
The role of reticence in the comprehension of metaphorical taboo expressions in the foreign language
The present study focuses on the influence of L2 learners’ attitudes toward and perception of sexual taboos on their comprehension of metaphorical taboo expressions. Other aspects such as the presence of contextual information and the L2 learners’ stay‐abroad experience were also included in the study design. A total of 53 students of Spanish as a foreign language were presented with metaphorical taboo expressions from the MadSex corpus. They als…
Arguing through best practice
Examining a multilingual dataset of Twitter and Instagram messages posted by a variety of actors (NGOs and individual activists, small brands, and others) during the 2020 and 2021 Fashion Revolution Week campaigns for a more sustainable fashion system, we analyze frequently occurring discursive representations and self-representations that include individual mentions of persons or small brands. We show that individual mentions are mostly proposed…
Register, genre and referential ambiguity of personal pronouns
This paper argues for revisiting the traditional adscription of ambiguous readings of personal pronouns, such as hearer-dominant we or generic you , pluralis maiestatis and pluralis modestiae to specific genres and/or registers. Indeed, in many languages these phenomena are considered typical for a certain genre, register or discourse context. In this paper, I will argue, on the basis of quantitative data and a qualitative analysis of examples ta…
On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences
Preview this article: On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.26.3.01dec-1.gif
Taboo effects at the syntactic level
This paper analyses the linguistic resources used by speakers to profile the participants in taboo actions, focusing on expressions for the concept abortar 'to abort' in Spanish sociolinguistic interviews. The tokens referring to the action are analysed in terms of linguistic features that affect agentivity at the level of verbs, subjects and objects. The combination of different linguistic features is classified in three levels of agentivity (pr…
Faire campagne sur Twitter
De quelle manière les activités de la représentation politique se donnent-elles à voir sur un espace médiatique particulier, Twitter, à l’occasion des campagnes des élections européennes de mai 2014 et mai 2019 ? A partir de l’analyse comparative des biographies et des publications sur le dispositif Twitter de députés européens candidats à leur ré-élection dans quatre pays (Belgique, Espagne, France, Royaume-Uni), nous tentons d’appréhender les s…
Argumentative misalignments in the controversy surrounding fashion sustainability
In light of the ongoing public controversy surrounding fashion sustainability, this paper sets out to identify misalignments that relate to the definitions of sustainable fashion. It does so by examining the discourse of different agents in this polylogical argumentation - fashion companies and the European Parliament as well as citizens, small brands and NGOs - as revealed through documents and tweets published online. Our findings show misalign…
Any #JesuisIraq planned
The stem #jesuis followed by a toponym (e.g. #jesuisParis) has proved to be very productive in the gathering of affective publics ( Papacharissi 2015 ) around causes of mourning, after terrorist attacks and other disasters. However, not all attacks have given rise to such massive affective use of #jesuis hashtags. Our goal is to examine how Twitter users claim similar displays of affect for these “other” places. We analyze 297 tweets in which the…
A. L. Duffé Montalván (coordinator). (2017). Singularidad y variedad en el estudio sobre los actos de habla
This article reviews Singularidad y variedad en el estudio sobre los actos de habla 978-84-9171-100-1
Un enfoque cognitivo hacia el análisis del discurso
Mediante el análisis discursivo de informes sobre los Derechos Humanos en Chile producidos en diferentes momentos históricos, mostramos cómo los hallazgos de la lingüística cognitiva pueden contribuir a la comprensión de fenómenos sociales. Concretamente, analizamos tres aspectos discursivos: (i) la gradualidad de la identificación de víctimas y perpetradores, (ii) el grado de intencionalidad que se atribuye a la acción y las representaciones más…
Quién atenúa y cuándo en español
o En este análisis, abordamos la atenuación en español desde la variación entre géneros discursivos orales (conversaciones, interacciones en clase, debates parlamentarios y entrevistas sociolingüísticas). Basándonos en el análisis de Briz (2007) de la atenuación en conversaciones informales y entrevistas, en la propuesta de Fraser (1990) y Blas Arroyo (2005) en cuanto al impacto del contrato conversacional en el carácter marcado o no de una estra…
Spanish spatial deictic adverbs
In this paper, I analyze the ways in which spatial deictic adverbs function in Spanish. More concretely, through an analysis of spatial deictic adverbs used with depersonalizing constructions, I show how, in the absence of person deictic forms, the interpretation of spatial deictic adverbs depends not only on the physical, but more crucially on contextual cues in the discursive context. Moreover, I show that spatial adverbs used with depersonaliz…
Reference to Self and Other in the Digital Public Sphere
From expressing solidarity to mocking on Twitter
In this article, we show how the hashtag#jesuisCharlie, created following the attack onCharlie Hebdo, gave rise to the use of many other hashtags starting with#jesuis, across languages. Through a corpus-based analysis, we show how the meaning of#jesuisbroadened from expressing condolence and support following terrorist attacks over expressing condolence for other (violent) deaths to a more general marker of solidarity and alignment. This broadeni…
Discursive construction of human rights violations
Drawing on discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics, this paper analyzes the discursive construction of human rights violations in the report of the Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission, also called Rettig Commission. We show that there is a strong contrast in how the victims and perpetrators are represented in the case descriptions. While the victims are clearly identified, the perpetrators are not identified individually. Moreover, t…
Self-reference by politicians on Twitter
Ways of encoding attention to the interlocutor in contemporary spoken Spanish
The papers in this volume examine how Spanish speakers express attention to their interlocutors (or co-participants) verbally. It is now generally accepted that subjective expressions have interactional functions, encouraging the flow of discussion and creating cohesive discourse and that there are several ways of dealing with the intersubjective or dialogic nature of language: (i) studying heteroglossia or dialoguing voices in monologic texts, (…
Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and non-subjectivity across spoken language genres
Various authors have pointed out a relationship between (inter)subjectivity and spoken language. This article looks into the relationship between subjectivity, intersubjectivity, non-subjectivity and spoken discourse genres in a more detailed way. On the basis of a quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis of informal conversation, TV-debates and parliamentary debates, this article offers a detailed operationalization of the concepts of subjec…
Why we can be you
Self-reference by politicians on Twitter
From expressing solidarity to mocking on Twitter
In this article, we show how the hashtag#jesuisCharlie, created following the attack onCharlie Hebdo, gave rise to the use of many other hashtags starting with#jesuis, across languages. Through a corpus-based analysis, we show how the meaning of#jesuisbroadened from expressing condolence and support following terrorist attacks over expressing condolence for other (violent) deaths to a more general marker of solidarity and alignment. This broadeni…
Construing confrontation
This study provides a linguistic perspective on the structure and the interpretation of a key historical narrative in Umpithamu (a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula, Australia), against the background of a larger corpus of narrative texts in Umpithamu. The analysis focuses on the role of participant tracking devices in the macro-structure of the narrative, and the role of case marking in the build-up of narrative motifs. It is argued n…
Beyond Bleeps and Bounds
Streaming platforms have transformed series distribution and accessibility, with Spanish-language shows gaining immense popularity, notably "La casa de papel" (Money Heist). This series features a diverse cast of characters whose linguistic diversity extends to the use of taboo language. Previous studies have shown that linguistic immersion, such as staying abroad, significantly impacts knowledge of this kind of language. This paper aims to explo…
Argumentative misalignments in the controversy surrounding fashion sustainability
In light of the ongoing public controversy surrounding fashion sustainability, this paper sets out to identify misalignments that relate to the definitions of sustainable fashion. It does so by examining the discourse of different agents in this polylogical argumentation - fashion companies and the European Parliament as well as citizens, small brands and NGOs - as revealed through documents and tweets published online. Our findings show misalign…
The role of reticence in the comprehension of metaphorical taboo expressions in the foreign language
The present study focuses on the influence of L2 learners’ attitudes toward and perception of sexual taboos on their comprehension of metaphorical taboo expressions. Other aspects such as the presence of contextual information and the L2 learners’ stay‐abroad experience were also included in the study design. A total of 53 students of Spanish as a foreign language were presented with metaphorical taboo expressions from the MadSex corpus. They als…
The European Union and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
The EU and the OIF have both developed to become international organisations that combine economic, geopolitical and cultural-linguistic policies. This article deals with the fascinating interface of such policies. The main focus resides on the discourse by which both organisations construct their linguistic and cultural diversity concept and on how they deal with language rights. The role of other divides in the debate on linguistic and cultural…
The European Union and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie
The EU and the OIF have both developed to become international organisations that combine economic, geopolitical and cultural-linguistic policies. This article deals with the fascinating interface of such policies. The main focus resides on the discourse by which both organisations construct their linguistic and cultural diversity concept and on how they deal with language rights. The role of other divides in the debate on linguistic and cultural…
Instituciones españolas de cara a la difusión de la lengua. Con atención particular a la situación en Bélgica, Estados Unidos y Canadá
Dans cette étude, nous présentons un cadre théorique pour l’étude de la politique de diffusion linguistique à l’étranger, par opposition à la politique linguistique qui est du ressort de la législation (sub)nationale. Nous décrivons d’abord la politique de diffusion linguistique espagnole entre 1978 et 1991. Ensuite, nous appliquons le cadre théorique aux politiques de diffusion linguistique menées à partir de 1991, en nous centrant sur l’ Instit…
Construing confrontation
This study provides a linguistic perspective on the structure and the interpretation of a key historical narrative in Umpithamu (a Pama-Nyungan language of Cape York Peninsula, Australia), against the background of a larger corpus of narrative texts in Umpithamu. The analysis focuses on the role of participant tracking devices in the macro-structure of the narrative, and the role of case marking in the build-up of narrative motifs. It is argued n…
Funciones pragmáticas de la referencia de persona en el lenguaje coloquial y en el discurso político
En este estudio analizamos la referencia de persona en el lenguaje coloquial y el discurso político desde un enfoque cognitivo. El análisis cuantitativo permite comparar en qué medida el enunciador y el enunciatario se manifiestan en ambos géneros. Para el análisis cualitativo, nos basamos en las nociones de subjetividad e intersubjetividad lingüística (Benveniste, 1966; Lyons, 1982; Closs Traugott, 2003). La mayor subjetividad del lenguaje coloq…
Why we can be you
Verbos deónticos en primera persona en debates parlamentarios
In this article, we present the results of an analysis of verbs expressing deonticity in Spanish, focussing on their use on the 1st person, which has received little attention in the literature so far. By means of an analysis in terms of ‘modal source’ and ‘modal agent’ (Verstraete 2005), we will analyze the conceptualization of the relationship between the speaker and his surroundings. The corpus analysis will shows that the use of deontic verbs…
La expresión de la agentividad en el Informe Rettig (Chile, 1991)
This article proposes a cognitive-linguistic analysis of agentivity in the Informe Rettig. Based on a definition of agentivity which integrates lexical, morphosyntactic and pragmatic components, it is shown through a quantitative and qualitative analysis that: (i) in most cases, the Informe Rettig refers to the death of the victims of the dictatorship without referring to the perpetrators, (ii) the report uses syntactic structures in which the re…
Ways of encoding attention to the interlocutor in contemporary spoken Spanish
The papers in this volume examine how Spanish speakers express attention to their interlocutors (or co-participants) verbally. It is now generally accepted that subjective expressions have interactional functions, encouraging the flow of discussion and creating cohesive discourse and that there are several ways of dealing with the intersubjective or dialogic nature of language: (i) studying heteroglossia or dialoguing voices in monologic texts, (…
Subjectivity, intersubjectivity and non-subjectivity across spoken language genres
Various authors have pointed out a relationship between (inter)subjectivity and spoken language. This article looks into the relationship between subjectivity, intersubjectivity, non-subjectivity and spoken discourse genres in a more detailed way. On the basis of a quantitative and qualitative corpus analysis of informal conversation, TV-debates and parliamentary debates, this article offers a detailed operationalization of the concepts of subjec…
Discursive construction of human rights violations
Drawing on discourse analysis and cognitive linguistics, this paper analyzes the discursive construction of human rights violations in the report of the Chilean Truth and Reconciliation Commission, also called Rettig Commission. We show that there is a strong contrast in how the victims and perpetrators are represented in the case descriptions. While the victims are clearly identified, the perpetrators are not identified individually. Moreover, t…
Self-reference by politicians on Twitter
Quién atenúa y cuándo en español
o En este análisis, abordamos la atenuación en español desde la variación entre géneros discursivos orales (conversaciones, interacciones en clase, debates parlamentarios y entrevistas sociolingüísticas). Basándonos en el análisis de Briz (2007) de la atenuación en conversaciones informales y entrevistas, en la propuesta de Fraser (1990) y Blas Arroyo (2005) en cuanto al impacto del contrato conversacional en el carácter marcado o no de una estra…
Spanish spatial deictic adverbs
In this paper, I analyze the ways in which spatial deictic adverbs function in Spanish. More concretely, through an analysis of spatial deictic adverbs used with depersonalizing constructions, I show how, in the absence of person deictic forms, the interpretation of spatial deictic adverbs depends not only on the physical, but more crucially on contextual cues in the discursive context. Moreover, I show that spatial adverbs used with depersonaliz…
Reference to Self and Other in the Digital Public Sphere
From expressing solidarity to mocking on Twitter
In this article, we show how the hashtag#jesuisCharlie, created following the attack onCharlie Hebdo, gave rise to the use of many other hashtags starting with#jesuis, across languages. Through a corpus-based analysis, we show how the meaning of#jesuisbroadened from expressing condolence and support following terrorist attacks over expressing condolence for other (violent) deaths to a more general marker of solidarity and alignment. This broadeni…
A. L. Duffé Montalván (coordinator). (2017). Singularidad y variedad en el estudio sobre los actos de habla
This article reviews Singularidad y variedad en el estudio sobre los actos de habla 978-84-9171-100-1
Un enfoque cognitivo hacia el análisis del discurso
Mediante el análisis discursivo de informes sobre los Derechos Humanos en Chile producidos en diferentes momentos históricos, mostramos cómo los hallazgos de la lingüística cognitiva pueden contribuir a la comprensión de fenómenos sociales. Concretamente, analizamos tres aspectos discursivos: (i) la gradualidad de la identificación de víctimas y perpetradores, (ii) el grado de intencionalidad que se atribuye a la acción y las representaciones más…
Any #JesuisIraq planned
The stem #jesuis followed by a toponym (e.g. #jesuisParis) has proved to be very productive in the gathering of affective publics ( Papacharissi 2015 ) around causes of mourning, after terrorist attacks and other disasters. However, not all attacks have given rise to such massive affective use of #jesuis hashtags. Our goal is to examine how Twitter users claim similar displays of affect for these “other” places. We analyze 297 tweets in which the…
Argumentative misalignments in the controversy surrounding fashion sustainability
In light of the ongoing public controversy surrounding fashion sustainability, this paper sets out to identify misalignments that relate to the definitions of sustainable fashion. It does so by examining the discourse of different agents in this polylogical argumentation - fashion companies and the European Parliament as well as citizens, small brands and NGOs - as revealed through documents and tweets published online. Our findings show misalign…
Register, genre and referential ambiguity of personal pronouns
This paper argues for revisiting the traditional adscription of ambiguous readings of personal pronouns, such as hearer-dominant we or generic you , pluralis maiestatis and pluralis modestiae to specific genres and/or registers. Indeed, in many languages these phenomena are considered typical for a certain genre, register or discourse context. In this paper, I will argue, on the basis of quantitative data and a qualitative analysis of examples ta…
On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences
Preview this article: On the referential ambiguity of personal pronouns and its pragmatic consequences, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.26.3.01dec-1.gif
Taboo effects at the syntactic level
This paper analyses the linguistic resources used by speakers to profile the participants in taboo actions, focusing on expressions for the concept abortar 'to abort' in Spanish sociolinguistic interviews. The tokens referring to the action are analysed in terms of linguistic features that affect agentivity at the level of verbs, subjects and objects. The combination of different linguistic features is classified in three levels of agentivity (pr…
Faire campagne sur Twitter
De quelle manière les activités de la représentation politique se donnent-elles à voir sur un espace médiatique particulier, Twitter, à l’occasion des campagnes des élections européennes de mai 2014 et mai 2019 ? A partir de l’analyse comparative des biographies et des publications sur le dispositif Twitter de députés européens candidats à leur ré-élection dans quatre pays (Belgique, Espagne, France, Royaume-Uni), nous tentons d’appréhender les s…
Patrones de empatía en dos foros virtuales
La empatía lingüística constituye un sistema dinámico de lenguaje de carácter interpersonal que varía en función de la situación comunicativa. Puede plantearse, por consiguiente, que existen patrones (o estilos) de construcción empática característicos y particulares para cada tipo de interacción. En el presente estudio, examinamos las estrategias empáticas desplegadas en dos grupos de apoyo en línea: un foro de recuperación de un trastorno de la…
The role of reticence in the comprehension of metaphorical taboo expressions in the foreign language
The present study focuses on the influence of L2 learners’ attitudes toward and perception of sexual taboos on their comprehension of metaphorical taboo expressions. Other aspects such as the presence of contextual information and the L2 learners’ stay‐abroad experience were also included in the study design. A total of 53 students of Spanish as a foreign language were presented with metaphorical taboo expressions from the MadSex corpus. They als…
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