Valentina Concu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6772795 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentina Concu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentina |
| FAMILY NAME | Concu |
| SIGNATURE | CONCU V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leuphana University of Lüneburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0863-9602 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Variables in contact
This study examines nominal address in Palenquero and Palenquero Spanish, two languages spoken in the historically Afro-Colombian creole community of San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia. Drawing on survey data from 62 bilingual speakers within a Variational Pragmatics framework, we model address-term choice with Bayesian multinomial mixed-effects regression, accounting for the multiple responses each speaker contributed. In both systems, address se…
Offers in the Old Saxon Hêliand
This study examines offers in the Hêliand , an Old Saxon gospel harmony, using a combined form-to-function and function-to-form approach. Offers are also classified according to speech representation mode and role configuration to assess how recipient agency and illocutionary force are shaped in discourse. A key finding is that offers appear both in Direct Speech ( ds ) and in Narrative Representation of Speech Acts ( nrsa ), showing how the poem…
Not all it seems are the same
This study investigates the English extra-clausal appearance construction it seems as a discourse-sensitive resource for epistemic stance, integrating insights from Systemic Functional Linguistics and Interpersonal Pragmatics. Using corpus data from COCA, BAWE, and MICASE, the analysis explores how evidential, modal, and subjective meanings are shaped by discourse context—particularly mode and register—and by speakers’ relational strategies. Four…
Exploring emoji usage in intercultural CMC
Article Exploring emoji usage in intercultural CMC: Insights from Colombian and Argentinian learners of German was published on September 1, 2025 in the journal Intercultural Pragmatics (volume 22, issue 4)
The effect of extralinguistic variables on verb selection in Italian requests
Politeness relies on interlocutors’ frames, which are cognitive concepts that include a linguistic expression and extralinguistic variables. Politeness research has highlighted the importance of extralinguistic variables on speakers’ linguistic choices. Despite many studies that touch on these topics, questions about the comparative importance of contextual variables and the joint effect of them on speakers’ utterances remain unanswered. To exami…
Exploring emoji usage in intercultural CMC
This study investigates the use of emojis in Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) among Colombian and Argentinian learners of German. Recent research demonstrates that emojis serve multiple functions, including expressing reactions to previous statements and modulating the tone of assertions. Beyond the illocutionary domain, where they help articulate speech acts, emojis facilitate discourse by managing conversation openings and closings. They a…
“Face” in retrospective
Despite being often criticized, the notion of face has recently begun to be applied in diachronic pragmatic investigations on directives, requests, apologies, and terms of address. The present study also uses the notion of face to investigate the use of Dank ‘thanks’, Dankbarkeit ‘thankfulness’, and danken ‘to thank’ in expressions of gratitude in Old Saxon and Old High German, laying the foundations to a better understanding of the speech act of…
Ih gebiude dir, wurm!”
The number of diachronic studies on English speech acts has recently increased remarkably, highlighting the importance of these phenomena for the understanding of the contextualised dimension of linguistic interactions. Recent studies on the realisation of directives in Old English have shown how, in the Anglo-Saxon world, negative politeness did not play a significant role. This study also focusses on the realisation of directives from a diachro…
Werden and Periphrases with Present Participles and Infinitives
The scholarship on the Modern German periphrastic future, or the werden future (that is, werden + infinitive) has brought forth different hypotheses about its origins. One of these hypotheses states that it developed from werden + present participle in the 13th century (for example, Bech 1901). While many have criticized this hypothesis, no one until now has proposed a valid solution for the problem. In this study, I carried out a comprehensive e…
Implications of Grammaticalization for Language Change
The emergence of the German double present and past perfect ( hat vergessen gehabt ‘has forgotten had’; ist gefahren gewesen ‘is gone been’ – hatte vergessen gehabt ‘had forgotten had’; war gefahren gewesen ‘was gone been’) is still widely debated. Some scholars consider the development of these constructions a result of the decline of the Präteritum , whereas others claim that these were formed as a consequence of the loss of the aspectual syste…
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Implications of Grammaticalization for Language Change
The emergence of the German double present and past perfect ( hat vergessen gehabt ‘has forgotten had’; ist gefahren gewesen ‘is gone been’ – hatte vergessen gehabt ‘had forgotten had’; war gefahren gewesen ‘was gone been’) is still widely debated. Some scholars consider the development of these constructions a result of the decline of the Präteritum , whereas others claim that these were formed as a consequence of the loss of the aspectual syste…
Werden and Periphrases with Present Participles and Infinitives
The scholarship on the Modern German periphrastic future, or the werden future (that is, werden + infinitive) has brought forth different hypotheses about its origins. One of these hypotheses states that it developed from werden + present participle in the 13th century (for example, Bech 1901). While many have criticized this hypothesis, no one until now has proposed a valid solution for the problem. In this study, I carried out a comprehensive e…
“Face” in retrospective
Despite being often criticized, the notion of face has recently begun to be applied in diachronic pragmatic investigations on directives, requests, apologies, and terms of address. The present study also uses the notion of face to investigate the use of Dank ‘thanks’, Dankbarkeit ‘thankfulness’, and danken ‘to thank’ in expressions of gratitude in Old Saxon and Old High German, laying the foundations to a better understanding of the speech act of…
Ih gebiude dir, wurm!”
The number of diachronic studies on English speech acts has recently increased remarkably, highlighting the importance of these phenomena for the understanding of the contextualised dimension of linguistic interactions. Recent studies on the realisation of directives in Old English have shown how, in the Anglo-Saxon world, negative politeness did not play a significant role. This study also focusses on the realisation of directives from a diachro…
The effect of extralinguistic variables on verb selection in Italian requests
Politeness relies on interlocutors’ frames, which are cognitive concepts that include a linguistic expression and extralinguistic variables. Politeness research has highlighted the importance of extralinguistic variables on speakers’ linguistic choices. Despite many studies that touch on these topics, questions about the comparative importance of contextual variables and the joint effect of them on speakers’ utterances remain unanswered. To exami…
Exploring emoji usage in intercultural CMC
This study investigates the use of emojis in Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) among Colombian and Argentinian learners of German. Recent research demonstrates that emojis serve multiple functions, including expressing reactions to previous statements and modulating the tone of assertions. Beyond the illocutionary domain, where they help articulate speech acts, emojis facilitate discourse by managing conversation openings and closings. They a…
Exploring emoji usage in intercultural CMC
Article Exploring emoji usage in intercultural CMC: Insights from Colombian and Argentinian learners of German was published on September 1, 2025 in the journal Intercultural Pragmatics (volume 22, issue 4)
Variables in contact
This study examines nominal address in Palenquero and Palenquero Spanish, two languages spoken in the historically Afro-Colombian creole community of San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia. Drawing on survey data from 62 bilingual speakers within a Variational Pragmatics framework, we model address-term choice with Bayesian multinomial mixed-effects regression, accounting for the multiple responses each speaker contributed. In both systems, address se…
Offers in the Old Saxon Hêliand
This study examines offers in the Hêliand , an Old Saxon gospel harmony, using a combined form-to-function and function-to-form approach. Offers are also classified according to speech representation mode and role configuration to assess how recipient agency and illocutionary force are shaped in discourse. A key finding is that offers appear both in Direct Speech ( ds ) and in Narrative Representation of Speech Acts ( nrsa ), showing how the poem…
Not all it seems are the same
This study investigates the English extra-clausal appearance construction it seems as a discourse-sensitive resource for epistemic stance, integrating insights from Systemic Functional Linguistics and Interpersonal Pragmatics. Using corpus data from COCA, BAWE, and MICASE, the analysis explores how evidential, modal, and subjective meanings are shaped by discourse context—particularly mode and register—and by speakers’ relational strategies. Four…
Linguistics (6 works) · German (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (4 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (3 works) · Politeness (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works)