Valeria Sinkeviciute
Biographic Data
| ID | 1044800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valeria Sinkeviciute |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valeria |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinkeviciute |
| SIGNATURE | SINKEVICIUTE V |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1217-0165 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Rules of engagement: Relationships and socialisation practices in family discourse
This Special Issue brings together a collection of seven articles that aim to expand our understanding of relationship building and socialisation practices in family discourse with the key focus on the interactional accomplishment of “doing family.” Exploring video-recorded face-to-face, digitally-mediated and hybrid interactions, they examine a variety of family conversations – parent-child, sibling (brother-brother; sister-sister), married coup…
The ‘parent’ category as an interactional resource in a sibling dispute over sharing
Drawing on a combination of the analytical tools from interactional pragmatics and membership categorisation analysis, this paper explores a specific type of everyday family life – a sibling dispute, and how the ‘parent’ category is used as an interactional resource by parents and children during oppositional talk over sharing. The data comes from spontaneous video-recorded conversations in a Russian-speaking family living in Australia that inclu…
“Tú sabes lo que le pasa a él?”: The Role of (Relational) Epistemics in Indirect Complaint Sequences in Spanish and English Family Talk
Drawing on interactional pragmatics and membership categorisation analysis, this paper explores indirect (third-party-oriented and situation-oriented) complaints in Spanish and English interactions between family members where expectations of affiliation are contingent on (relational) epistemic (im)balances. We analyse how (1) disaffiliation is constructed through the recipient’s more knowledgeable position in relation to the matter at hand, (2) …
Role of ‘familiarity’ in Mandarin Chinese speakers’ metapragmatic evaluations of Australian conversational humour
Although research on humorous practices of Anglo-Australians has received much attention, the understanding of those practices by members of various multilingual communities in Australia has not been much studied. In this paper, we look at metapragmatic comments on concept familiarity in relation to conversational humour, particularly focusing on Mandarin Chinese speakers’ perceptions of conversational humour in Australian English. In order to ex…
“So… introductions”: Conversational openings in getting acquainted interactions
The pragmatics of initial interactions: Cross-cultural and intercultural perspectives
Hey BCC this is Australia and we speak and read English: ” Monolingualism and othering in relation to linguistic diversity
This paper explores how linguistic diversity gave rise to a multi-party interaction with strong elements of monolingualism and othering. The data analyzed comes from the official Facebook page of Brisbane City Council that very rarely creates posts in languages other than English. One of such rare posts in Korean attracted a number of negative comments in relation to the language used. This paper examines how the discourses of monolingualism and …
Juggling identities in interviews: The metapragmatics of 'doing humour
The interplay between humour and identity construction: From humorous identities to identities constructed through humorous practices
Accusations and interpersonal conflict in televised multi-party interactions amongst speakers of (Argentinian and Peninsular) Spanish
While there is a growing body of research on impoliteness and conflict talk, the role of accusations in interpersonal conflict has been only addressed in passing. In this paper, we focus on accusations in conflict talk amongst interactants who are in a situation demanding the formation of intimate relationships within a relatively short span of time, namely, the television reality show Big Brother . We examine, in particular, accusation sequences…
What makes teasing impolite in Australian and British English? “Step[ping] over those lines […] you shouldn’t be crossing”
Even though in English-speaking cultural contexts a humorous reaction to teasing seems to be highly valued, jocularity can and does sometimes occasion evaluations of impoliteness. This paper aims to examine what makes the targets and/or other ratified hearers (the third party) evaluate teasing as impolite and to observe how impoliteness (as an evaluative situated phenomenon) functions in jocular interactions in two cultural contexts – Australian …
“It's just a bit of cultural […] lost in translation”: Australian and British intracultural and intercultural metapragmatic evaluations of jocularity
Variability in group identity construction: A case study of the Australian and British Big Brother houses
Funniness and “the preferred reaction” to jocularity in Australian and British English: An analysis of interviewees' metapragmatic comments
Approaching conversational humour culturally: A survey of the emerging area of investigation
“There’s definitely gonna be some serious carnage in this house” or how to be genuinely impolite in Big Brother UK
Although it is quite easy to conceive of a number of conventionalised impoliteness formulae that, depending on context, do not lead to the hearer’s evaluations of impoliteness, there are many situations when the speaker aims to be genuinely impolite and does not try to mitigate his/her verbal behaviour. This paper reports the findings of an analysis of twenty-nine genuinely impolite verbal behaviours that occurred in the Big Brother UK 2012 house…
When a joke's a joke and when it's too much: Mateship as a key to interpreting jocular FTAs in Australian English
When a joke's a joke and when it's too much: Mateship as a key to interpreting jocular FTAs in Australian English
The pragmatics of initial interactions: Cross-cultural and intercultural perspectives
Funniness and “the preferred reaction” to jocularity in Australian and British English: An analysis of interviewees' metapragmatic comments
Juggling identities in interviews: The metapragmatics of 'doing humour
The interplay between humour and identity construction: From humorous identities to identities constructed through humorous practices
Approaching conversational humour culturally: A survey of the emerging area of investigation
Hey BCC this is Australia and we speak and read English: ” Monolingualism and othering in relation to linguistic diversity
This paper explores how linguistic diversity gave rise to a multi-party interaction with strong elements of monolingualism and othering. The data analyzed comes from the official Facebook page of Brisbane City Council that very rarely creates posts in languages other than English. One of such rare posts in Korean attracted a number of negative comments in relation to the language used. This paper examines how the discourses of monolingualism and …
Variability in group identity construction: A case study of the Australian and British Big Brother houses
Role of ‘familiarity’ in Mandarin Chinese speakers’ metapragmatic evaluations of Australian conversational humour
Although research on humorous practices of Anglo-Australians has received much attention, the understanding of those practices by members of various multilingual communities in Australia has not been much studied. In this paper, we look at metapragmatic comments on concept familiarity in relation to conversational humour, particularly focusing on Mandarin Chinese speakers’ perceptions of conversational humour in Australian English. In order to ex…
When a joke's a joke and when it's too much: Mateship as a key to interpreting jocular FTAs in Australian English
“There’s definitely gonna be some serious carnage in this house” or how to be genuinely impolite in Big Brother UK
Although it is quite easy to conceive of a number of conventionalised impoliteness formulae that, depending on context, do not lead to the hearer’s evaluations of impoliteness, there are many situations when the speaker aims to be genuinely impolite and does not try to mitigate his/her verbal behaviour. This paper reports the findings of an analysis of twenty-nine genuinely impolite verbal behaviours that occurred in the Big Brother UK 2012 house…
What makes teasing impolite in Australian and British English? “Step[ping] over those lines […] you shouldn’t be crossing”
Even though in English-speaking cultural contexts a humorous reaction to teasing seems to be highly valued, jocularity can and does sometimes occasion evaluations of impoliteness. This paper aims to examine what makes the targets and/or other ratified hearers (the third party) evaluate teasing as impolite and to observe how impoliteness (as an evaluative situated phenomenon) functions in jocular interactions in two cultural contexts – Australian …
“It's just a bit of cultural […] lost in translation”: Australian and British intracultural and intercultural metapragmatic evaluations of jocularity
Variability in group identity construction: A case study of the Australian and British Big Brother houses
Funniness and “the preferred reaction” to jocularity in Australian and British English: An analysis of interviewees' metapragmatic comments
Approaching conversational humour culturally: A survey of the emerging area of investigation
Accusations and interpersonal conflict in televised multi-party interactions amongst speakers of (Argentinian and Peninsular) Spanish
While there is a growing body of research on impoliteness and conflict talk, the role of accusations in interpersonal conflict has been only addressed in passing. In this paper, we focus on accusations in conflict talk amongst interactants who are in a situation demanding the formation of intimate relationships within a relatively short span of time, namely, the television reality show Big Brother . We examine, in particular, accusation sequences…
Juggling identities in interviews: The metapragmatics of 'doing humour
The interplay between humour and identity construction: From humorous identities to identities constructed through humorous practices
Hey BCC this is Australia and we speak and read English: ” Monolingualism and othering in relation to linguistic diversity
This paper explores how linguistic diversity gave rise to a multi-party interaction with strong elements of monolingualism and othering. The data analyzed comes from the official Facebook page of Brisbane City Council that very rarely creates posts in languages other than English. One of such rare posts in Korean attracted a number of negative comments in relation to the language used. This paper examines how the discourses of monolingualism and …
“So… introductions”: Conversational openings in getting acquainted interactions
The pragmatics of initial interactions: Cross-cultural and intercultural perspectives
Role of ‘familiarity’ in Mandarin Chinese speakers’ metapragmatic evaluations of Australian conversational humour
Although research on humorous practices of Anglo-Australians has received much attention, the understanding of those practices by members of various multilingual communities in Australia has not been much studied. In this paper, we look at metapragmatic comments on concept familiarity in relation to conversational humour, particularly focusing on Mandarin Chinese speakers’ perceptions of conversational humour in Australian English. In order to ex…
“Tú sabes lo que le pasa a él?”: The Role of (Relational) Epistemics in Indirect Complaint Sequences in Spanish and English Family Talk
Drawing on interactional pragmatics and membership categorisation analysis, this paper explores indirect (third-party-oriented and situation-oriented) complaints in Spanish and English interactions between family members where expectations of affiliation are contingent on (relational) epistemic (im)balances. We analyse how (1) disaffiliation is constructed through the recipient’s more knowledgeable position in relation to the matter at hand, (2) …
Rules of engagement: Relationships and socialisation practices in family discourse
This Special Issue brings together a collection of seven articles that aim to expand our understanding of relationship building and socialisation practices in family discourse with the key focus on the interactional accomplishment of “doing family.” Exploring video-recorded face-to-face, digitally-mediated and hybrid interactions, they examine a variety of family conversations – parent-child, sibling (brother-brother; sister-sister), married coup…
The ‘parent’ category as an interactional resource in a sibling dispute over sharing
Drawing on a combination of the analytical tools from interactional pragmatics and membership categorisation analysis, this paper explores a specific type of everyday family life – a sibling dispute, and how the ‘parent’ category is used as an interactional resource by parents and children during oppositional talk over sharing. The data comes from spontaneous video-recorded conversations in a Russian-speaking family living in Australia that inclu…
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (14 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (12 works) · Linguistics (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 works) · History (5 works) · Humor Studies and Applications (5 works)