Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1159664 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pilar Garcés-Conejos |
| FAMILY NAME | Blitvich |
| SIGNATURE | BLITVICH P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1216-8869 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 191 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Levinson, Stephen C.
Stephen C. Levinson is currently the director of the language and cognition group at the Max Planck institute for psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands (see www.mpi.nl/people/levinson‐stephen ).
Humour in times of mourning: A contrastive analysis of memes
This study investigates the use of humorous memes in times of mourning from a contrastive English-Spanish perspective. The study of the discourse of death and grief is receiving increasing attention mainly due to the changes brought about by the migration of mourning practices to the internet. Previous research has revealed that mourning personal losses or those of public figures is not exempt from including negative evaluations of the deceased o…
Identities in conflict: Latinos in Spain
This paper explores the construction of Latino identity in Spain. The term Hispanic (Latino later became the label of choice) was added to the US census in the 1970s, initially as an ethnic category, but it has undergone a process of racialization, making Latinos a distinct racial group in the US. The concept of Latinidad has been extensively studied in the US context. This paper adopts a netnographic approach to examine how Latinidad is construc…
Pragmatic Transfer
This entry deals with pragmatic transfer, that is, the influence among the language(s)/culture(s) known to an individual at the level of pragmatic knowledge in the context of language learning and communication. This entry begins with an introduction to the topic, which is then illustrated by an authentic example. The next section explains that this area of study lies at the intersection of second language (L2) acquisition and (discursive) pragma…
Condolence Posts in English and Spanish: A Contrastive Pragmatic Analysis
This paper addresses the growing presence of mourning practices in online contexts within today’s post-digital society, which has caught the attention of scholars in various disciplines. Despite this interest, there remains a dearth of discursive pragmatic research on social media mourning, particularly within contrastive pragmatics. To address this gap, the study examines condolence discourse in English and Spanish from a contrastive pragmatic p…
Influencer Discourse: Affective Relations and Identities
Moral emotions, good moral panics, social regulation, and online public shaming
Morality, aggression, and social activism in a transmedia sports controversy
Karen: Stigmatized social identity and face-threat in the on/offline nexus
“Maleducados/Ill-mannered” during the #A28 political campaign on Twitter: A metapragmatic study of impoliteness labels and comments in Spanish
This paper approaches the study of conflict through an examination of Spanish metapragmatic labels and comments of impoliteness on Twitter. The aim is twofold. It first aims to confirm the attributed importance of the label maleducado /ill-mannered in the specific context of Twitter and of digital discourse more generally, on quantitative and comparative grounds; then, it investigates this label, and the metapragmatic comments where it occurred, …
Im/politeness and discursive pragmatics
Pragmatic Transfer
This entry deals with pragmatic transfer, the influence among the language(s)/culture(s) known to an individual at the level of pragmatic knowledge in the context of language learning and communication. After briefly tracing the origins and development of this area of study, which lies at the intersection of second language acquisition and pragmatics, we explain the distinction between pragmalinguistic and sociopragmatic transfer. Then we conside…
Introduction: Im/politeness and globalisation
Globalization, transnational identities, and conflict talk: The superdiversity and complexity of the Latino identity
Impoliteness and Television
The study of language aggression from a pragmatic theoretical perspective has been mostly tackled by theories and models of impoliteness. After decades of an almost exclusive focus by practitioners of pragmatics and interactional sociolinguistics on harmonious communication and the mitigation of potential conflict, the late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed an increasing interest in the understanding of conflictive interaction. In the heyday of pol…
Gender ideology and social identity processes in online language aggression against women
This paper examines language aggression against women in public online deliberation regarding crimes of violence against women. To do so, we draw upon a corpus of 460 unsolicited digital comments sent in response to four public service advertisements against women abuse posted on YouTube. Our analysis reveals that three patriarchal strategies of abuse — namely, minimize the abuse, deny its existence, and blame women — are enacted in the online di…
An Introduction to Language Aggression against Women
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Conflict management in massive polylogues: A case study from YouTube
Spanish Travelers' Expectations of Service Encounters in Domestic and International Settings
Despite the vast extant literature on customer satisfaction and cultural expectations, little attention has been paid to guests' linguistic expectations in interaction with receptionists. To help fill in this gap, this study examines 183 questionnaires that include guests' general expectations when communicating with receptionists in either their home country (Spain) or abroad, in order to understand whether there are stable expectations in relat…
The pragmatics of textual participation in the social media
Discourse approaches to the study of reality television
In the previous chapter we discussed why the study of reality television (RTV) can benefit much from adopting a discourse-analytical approach. We also noted that, even within this approach, different theoretical and methodological frameworks can be fruitfully drawn upon in order to examine the two key themes covered in this book: identity and aggression. This chapter is thus intended to equip readers whose background is not in discourse analysis …
Impoliteness in US/UK talent shows
Reality television: A discourse-analytical perspective
The empirical chapters of this book offer original studies of reality television (RTV henceforth) in a wide range of cultural contexts. Importantly, they all share a discourse-analytical approach even though they employ different discourse-analytic frameworks in order to address specific research questions, from multimodality and interactional sociolinguistics to Critical Discourse Analysis. The aim of this chapter is to explain the need, at this…
Impoliteness in US/UK talent shows: A diachronic study of the evolution of a genre
Reality television (RTV) has been under considerable scrutiny within the academic fields of media/cultural studies and, to a lesser extent, linguistics. Here, and within the context of ‘exploitative reality shows’, research has focused on impoliteness by lay participants (for example, Bousfield 2007, 2008; Culpeper 1996; Culpeper, Bousfield & Wichmann 2003) and ‘experts’, ranging from forthright property and lifestyle gurus and no-nonsense courtr…
A cross-cultural investigation of email communication in Peninsular Spanish and British English: The role of (in)formality and (in)directness
This paper examines the email discursive practices of particular speakers of two different languages, namely Peninsular Spanish and British English. More specifically, our study focuses on (in)formality and (in)directness therein, for these lie at the heart of considerable scholarly debate regarding, respectively (i) the general stylistic drift towards orality and informality in technology-mediated communication, and (ii) the degree of communicat…
Introduction: Face, identity and im/politeness. Looking backward, moving forward: From Goffman to practice theory
Openings and closings in Spanish email conversations
Despite the increasing interest scholarly research has shown in the study of computer-mediated communication, there is still a need to investigate the empirical validity of assumed homogeneity of language usage over the net and focus on the social diversity and variation that characterizes any communication. With this in mind, the present paper is an investigation into the stylistic choices that a particular group of email users made when engaged…
Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action
This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic/cultur
Moral emotions, good moral panics, social regulation, and online public shaming
Introduction: The status-quo and quo vadis of impoliteness research
A genre approach to impoliteness1 in a Spanish television talk show: Evidence from corpus-based analysis, questionnaires and focus groups
The aim of this paper is to conduct a contextually and culturally sensitive investigation of how impoliteness works in Peninsular Spanish discourse. This is achieved by adopting a genre-approach to im-politeness (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, International Review of Pragmatics 2: 46–94, 2010), which argues that genre notions, as understood by Fairclough, Analysing discourse: Textual analysis for social research, Routledge, (2003), can anchor top-down …
Karen: Stigmatized social identity and face-threat in the on/offline nexus
Globalization, transnational identities, and conflict talk: The superdiversity and complexity of the Latino identity
Im/politeness and discursive pragmatics
Teaching linguistic politeness: A methodological proposal
The aim of this article is to explore theoretical and methodological aspects of the teaching of pragmatics in a second language.Taking as point of departure the pragmatic continuum, which includes pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics, we focus on the promotion of sociopragmatic knowledge in classroom contexts.More specifically, it is argued that a revised contextual and interactional view of Brown and Levinson's (1987) model of linguistic polite…
The pragmatics of textual participation in the social media
Identity and impoliteness: The expert in the talent show Idol
Premised on the belief that both identity construction and im/politeness assessments relate to norms associated with genre practices, the aim of this paper is to examine the interconnections between identity co-construction and impoliteness in a media genre: the talent show. This aim is innovative in so far as im/politeness has traditionally been related to the notion of face, rather than identity. Our study draws upon a corpus of 160 interaction…
Despierten, Latinos(‘Wake up, Latinos): Latino Identity, US Politics and YouTube
This study examines the schemata underlying the social dimensions and relationships associated with the processes of Latino identity construction in 500 YouTube postings in response to the Obama Reggaeton video. According to Van Dijk (1998), such schemata allow members of a given group to provide answers to questions such as who they are, what criteria need to be met for membership in their group, and what kinds of relationships are established a…
Morality, aggression, and social activism in a transmedia sports controversy
Introduction: Im/politeness and globalisation
Domestic violence and public participation in the media
Recent research suggests that as a social public problem, domestic violence is sustained in a number of social contexts that naturalize violence against women through gendered discourses and ideologies of male violence. This paper examines domestic violence vis-à-vis public participation in the media. In doing so, it seeks to explore the social public aspects of domestic violence and to investigate whether the gendered discourse of male violence …
Impoliteness and identity in the American news media: The “Culture Wars”
This paper argues that identity theory can be a useful analytical tool for the scholar of relational work (Locher and Watts, Journal of Politeness Research 1: 9–13, 2005). By focusing on current news interviews broadcast in the USA, it shows how impoliteness is inextricably linked to the (co)construction of the identity of the hosts, the guests and the audience of an emergent "new" news genre; news as confrontation (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, The "…
Teaching linguistic politeness: A methodological proposal
The aim of this article is to explore theoretical and methodological aspects of the teaching of pragmatics in a second language.Taking as point of departure the pragmatic continuum, which includes pragmalinguistics and sociopragmatics, we focus on the promotion of sociopragmatic knowledge in classroom contexts.More specifically, it is argued that a revised contextual and interactional view of Brown and Levinson's (1987) model of linguistic polite…
A pragmatic account of listenership: Implications for foreign/second language teaching
In our view, there is a general need to gain insights into what a listener does in linguistic interaction and to provide a comprehensive account of listenership from a pragmatic standpoint. This paper examines listener roles and processes in three aspects of communication: verbal understanding, verbal production and negotiation of meaning. Traditional views of communication are invariably speaker-centred and based on coding and decoding processes…
Interlanguage pragmatics: A response to Andrew Cohen's “Strategies for learning and performing L2 speech acts” published in Vol. 2, No. 3, of Intercultural Pragmatics
Andrew Cohen's contribution to the field of interlanguage pragmatics has been significant and fruitful. My aim here is not so much to evaluate his work critically as it is to point out weaknesses in the field of interlanguage pragmatics that are also present in his production. In view of the theoretical developments in the field of pragmatics, it would seem essential that interlanguage pragmaticians should review some of the theoretical foundatio…
Natural versus elicited data in cross-cultural speech act realisation: The case of requests in Peninsular Spanish and British English
This paper explicitly addresses the ‘elicited versus natural data debate’ in cross-cultural speech act realisation research through critical discussion of an empirical study of comparable request sequences by Spanish and British undergraduates to one of their lecturers. Elicited (discourse completion tests) and natural data (unsolicited emails) were used and, not unexpectedly, produced significantly different results for each language community. …
Impoliteness and identity in the American news media: The “Culture Wars”
This paper argues that identity theory can be a useful analytical tool for the scholar of relational work (Locher and Watts, Journal of Politeness Research 1: 9–13, 2005). By focusing on current news interviews broadcast in the USA, it shows how impoliteness is inextricably linked to the (co)construction of the identity of the hosts, the guests and the audience of an emergent "new" news genre; news as confrontation (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, The "…
A Genre Approach to the Study of Im-politeness
This paper argues that genre notions, as understood by (Fairclough, 2003), can provide an overarching unit of analysis to accommodate both top-down and bottom-up analyses of impoliteness. These notions are here applied to the study impoliteness within an institutional genre: news interviews. Impoliteness is seen as the driving force behind a new genre, "news as confrontation", whose communicative goal is to reaffirm a view of the world. The multi…
Introduction: The status-quo and quo vadis of impoliteness research
A genre approach to impoliteness1 in a Spanish television talk show: Evidence from corpus-based analysis, questionnaires and focus groups
The aim of this paper is to conduct a contextually and culturally sensitive investigation of how impoliteness works in Peninsular Spanish discourse. This is achieved by adopting a genre-approach to im-politeness (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, International Review of Pragmatics 2: 46–94, 2010), which argues that genre notions, as understood by Fairclough, Analysing discourse: Textual analysis for social research, Routledge, (2003), can anchor top-down …
On-line polylogues and impoliteness: The case of postings sent in response to the Obama Reggaeton YouTube video
Openings and closings in Spanish email conversations
Despite the increasing interest scholarly research has shown in the study of computer-mediated communication, there is still a need to investigate the empirical validity of assumed homogeneity of language usage over the net and focus on the social diversity and variation that characterizes any communication. With this in mind, the present paper is an investigation into the stylistic choices that a particular group of email users made when engaged…
Pragmatic Transfer
As resourceful human beings, when we embark on a task for the first time, we resort, consciously or unconsciously, to our previous knowledge and experience in order to accomplish the task as efficiently as possible. This also applies to second (or third or other) language acquisition/learning scenarios: When we learn a new language, we already know, at least, a first language and have a wealth of world experience and information that will necessa…
Discourse approaches to the study of reality television
In the previous chapter we discussed why the study of reality television (RTV) can benefit much from adopting a discourse-analytical approach. We also noted that, even within this approach, different theoretical and methodological frameworks can be fruitfully drawn upon in order to examine the two key themes covered in this book: identity and aggression. This chapter is thus intended to equip readers whose background is not in discourse analysis …
Impoliteness in US/UK talent shows
Reality television: A discourse-analytical perspective
The empirical chapters of this book offer original studies of reality television (RTV henceforth) in a wide range of cultural contexts. Importantly, they all share a discourse-analytical approach even though they employ different discourse-analytic frameworks in order to address specific research questions, from multimodality and interactional sociolinguistics to Critical Discourse Analysis. The aim of this chapter is to explain the need, at this…
Impoliteness in US/UK talent shows: A diachronic study of the evolution of a genre
Reality television (RTV) has been under considerable scrutiny within the academic fields of media/cultural studies and, to a lesser extent, linguistics. Here, and within the context of ‘exploitative reality shows’, research has focused on impoliteness by lay participants (for example, Bousfield 2007, 2008; Culpeper 1996; Culpeper, Bousfield & Wichmann 2003) and ‘experts’, ranging from forthright property and lifestyle gurus and no-nonsense courtr…
A cross-cultural investigation of email communication in Peninsular Spanish and British English: The role of (in)formality and (in)directness
This paper examines the email discursive practices of particular speakers of two different languages, namely Peninsular Spanish and British English. More specifically, our study focuses on (in)formality and (in)directness therein, for these lie at the heart of considerable scholarly debate regarding, respectively (i) the general stylistic drift towards orality and informality in technology-mediated communication, and (ii) the degree of communicat…
Impoliteness in polylogal interaction: Accounting for face-threat witnesses’ responses
Domestic violence and public participation in the media
Recent research suggests that as a social public problem, domestic violence is sustained in a number of social contexts that naturalize violence against women through gendered discourses and ideologies of male violence. This paper examines domestic violence vis-à-vis public participation in the media. In doing so, it seeks to explore the social public aspects of domestic violence and to investigate whether the gendered discourse of male violence …
Introduction: Face, identity and im/politeness. Looking backward, moving forward: From Goffman to practice theory
Identity and impoliteness: The expert in the talent show Idol
Premised on the belief that both identity construction and im/politeness assessments relate to norms associated with genre practices, the aim of this paper is to examine the interconnections between identity co-construction and impoliteness in a media genre: the talent show. This aim is innovative in so far as im/politeness has traditionally been related to the notion of face, rather than identity. Our study draws upon a corpus of 160 interaction…
Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action
This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic/cultur
Despierten, Latinos(‘Wake up, Latinos): Latino Identity, US Politics and YouTube
This study examines the schemata underlying the social dimensions and relationships associated with the processes of Latino identity construction in 500 YouTube postings in response to the Obama Reggaeton video. According to Van Dijk (1998), such schemata allow members of a given group to provide answers to questions such as who they are, what criteria need to be met for membership in their group, and what kinds of relationships are established a…
Impoliteness and Television
The study of language aggression from a pragmatic theoretical perspective has been mostly tackled by theories and models of impoliteness. After decades of an almost exclusive focus by practitioners of pragmatics and interactional sociolinguistics on harmonious communication and the mitigation of potential conflict, the late 1990s and early 2000s witnessed an increasing interest in the understanding of conflictive interaction. In the heyday of pol…
Gender ideology and social identity processes in online language aggression against women
This paper examines language aggression against women in public online deliberation regarding crimes of violence against women. To do so, we draw upon a corpus of 460 unsolicited digital comments sent in response to four public service advertisements against women abuse posted on YouTube. Our analysis reveals that three patriarchal strategies of abuse — namely, minimize the abuse, deny its existence, and blame women — are enacted in the online di…
An Introduction to Language Aggression against Women
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