Virginia Acuña Ferreira
Biographic Data
| ID | 753347 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Virginia Acuña Ferreira |
| GIVEN NAMES | Virginia Acuña |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferreira |
| SIGNATURE | FERREIRA V A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de Vigo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6845-4242 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Tía, me dolió, ¿sabes?”
In recent years, the vocative tío/a has attracted specific attention because of its frequency and salient pragmatic functions in everyday conversation in European Spanish. This paper presents a conversation-analytical approach to the feminine variant, tía , in extracts from a single conversation of almost twenty minutes among young women friends, who focus on the telling of stories of a personal nature and employ this form as a vocative around th…
The construction of future and hypothetical dialogues in third-party complaints as enactments of a subsequent direct complaint
This article shows that third-party complaints can orient to future or possible actions to solve an ongoing conflictive or problematic situation with the absent complainees. Relying on data from naturally occurring interactions among speakers of Spanish and Galician, the article analyses instances of future and hypothetical dialogues in complaint sequences about absent parties and demonstrates that these are designed as enactments of a direct com…
Staging mental discursive processes and reactions
This article approaches the construction of reported thought in everyday conversation by analysing instances of direct reported thought (DRT), taken from storytelling sequences. It is argued that DRT is used by narrators as a device to portray, in a dynamic sense, the ways in which they experience the story world in their mind, as discursive processes and reactions around an external event that clash with their expectations or initial perception …
Code-switching and emotions display in Spanish/Galician bilingual conversation
This paper aims to contribute to recent research on bilingualism and emotions from a discourse approach, analyzing extracts taken from a spontaneous conversation between two Spanish/Galician female bilinguals. Spanish is the base language of this interaction and the dominant language of the speakers, but the extracts selected correspond to sequences of gossip and complaints about third parties including switches into Galician. The analysis reveal…
Language, gender and sexual identity
Language, gender and sexual identity: Poststructuralist perspectives Heiko Motschenbacher (2010) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. xii + 209 ISBN: 978 90 272 1868 1 (Hb; alk. Paper) ISBN 978 90 272 8750 2 (Eb) An interdisciplinary bibliography on language, gender and sexuality (2000–2011) Heiko Motschenbacher (2012)Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. vii + 294 ISBN: 978 90 272 1200 9 (Hb; alk. Paper) ISBN 978 90 272 7315…
Gossip as indirect mockery in friendly conversation
This article focuses on the analysis of gossip that is done in a playful key, including laughter as a salient feature, drawing on extracts taken from two naturally occurring conversations among Galician female undergraduate students. The analysis indicates that gossip emerges as a form of indirect mockery in the data, which are commonly based on dramatized reported speech of the ‘victim’, including parodic stylization devices that are orientated …
Funciones socio-discursivas de las alternancias de gallego y español en la realización bilingüe de cotilleo
Este artículo aborda el papel de las alternancias gallego/español en la realización bilingüe de cotilleo. Tras reseñar estudios sobre este género discursivo procedentes de distintas disciplinas, repaso la historia del contacto gallego/español en Galicia y analizo tres fragmentos de cotilleo en una conversación “natural”, que incluyen alternancias en estas lenguas. En mis conclusiones resalto las funciones discursivas y sociolingüísticas que desem…
The humorous display of transgressor feminities
Over the last years, research on gender and conversational humour has demonstrated, contrary to popular beliefs and social stereotypes, that this mode of discourse is not only ‘men’s work’, but it can be performed both in feminine and masculine ways; so, while there is a masculine humour which is creative, competitive and playful, focused on entertainment as a strategy to reinforce bonds, there is also a feminine humour, which is supportive, inti…
SecciÓN General. Recursos prosódicos y verbales para la intensificación de las emociones en la conversación cotidiana
Este artículo trata de poner de relieve el importante papel que desempeña el despliegue de emociones en la realización de una actividad comunicativa tan común como es la expresión de quejas. Apoyándose en el análisis de fragmentos de conversaciones “naturales” entre amigos/as y familiares, el presente artículo se centra en mostrar cómo se articulan los significados emotivos en el discurso de queja a través del trabajo coordinado de recursos de ti…
Complaint stories revisited
This article analyses and discusses excerpts from a friendly conversation among three Galician men in relation to broad characterisations of ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ interactional styles highlighted by more than two decades of sociolinguistic research on gender and discourse. In line with current tendencies in this area, it is assumed that these characterisations are ‘essentialist’, but it is also maintained that they capture quite well people’…
Complaint stories in male contexts
Gender and discourse studies have traditionally reacted to the negative dominant beliefs on women’s gossip by defending its role in the construction of female solidarity. This perspective proves inadequate to the extent that it ignores particular forms of female gossip which highlight patterns of competition between women and excludes the possibility that men could engage in the practice of gossip too. In this article, I aim to contribute to rece…
Conversación juvenil e identidades de género
Este artículo aborda la realización de identidades de género en la conversación espontánea, aplicando el enfoque constructivista/performativo que predomina actualmente en los estudios sobre Lengua, Género y Sexualidad (Ehrlich, Meyerhoff y Holmes 2014; Bengoechea 2015), así como el concepto de Comunidad de Práctica (Lave y Wenger 1991; Eckert y McConnell-Ginet 1992). Más concretamente, se analizan extractos de dos conversaciones espontáneas mante…
Gossip as indirect mockery in friendly conversation
This article focuses on the analysis of gossip that is done in a playful key, including laughter as a salient feature, drawing on extracts taken from two naturally occurring conversations among Galician female undergraduate students. The analysis indicates that gossip emerges as a form of indirect mockery in the data, which are commonly based on dramatized reported speech of the ‘victim’, including parodic stylization devices that are orientated …
The construction of future and hypothetical dialogues in third-party complaints as enactments of a subsequent direct complaint
This article shows that third-party complaints can orient to future or possible actions to solve an ongoing conflictive or problematic situation with the absent complainees. Relying on data from naturally occurring interactions among speakers of Spanish and Galician, the article analyses instances of future and hypothetical dialogues in complaint sequences about absent parties and demonstrates that these are designed as enactments of a direct com…
The humorous display of transgressor feminities
Over the last years, research on gender and conversational humour has demonstrated, contrary to popular beliefs and social stereotypes, that this mode of discourse is not only ‘men’s work’, but it can be performed both in feminine and masculine ways; so, while there is a masculine humour which is creative, competitive and playful, focused on entertainment as a strategy to reinforce bonds, there is also a feminine humour, which is supportive, inti…
Staging mental discursive processes and reactions
This article approaches the construction of reported thought in everyday conversation by analysing instances of direct reported thought (DRT), taken from storytelling sequences. It is argued that DRT is used by narrators as a device to portray, in a dynamic sense, the ways in which they experience the story world in their mind, as discursive processes and reactions around an external event that clash with their expectations or initial perception …
Complaint stories revisited
This article analyses and discusses excerpts from a friendly conversation among three Galician men in relation to broad characterisations of ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ interactional styles highlighted by more than two decades of sociolinguistic research on gender and discourse. In line with current tendencies in this area, it is assumed that these characterisations are ‘essentialist’, but it is also maintained that they capture quite well people’…
Conversación juvenil e identidades de género
Este artículo aborda la realización de identidades de género en la conversación espontánea, aplicando el enfoque constructivista/performativo que predomina actualmente en los estudios sobre Lengua, Género y Sexualidad (Ehrlich, Meyerhoff y Holmes 2014; Bengoechea 2015), así como el concepto de Comunidad de Práctica (Lave y Wenger 1991; Eckert y McConnell-Ginet 1992). Más concretamente, se analizan extractos de dos conversaciones espontáneas mante…
Complaint stories in male contexts
Gender and discourse studies have traditionally reacted to the negative dominant beliefs on women’s gossip by defending its role in the construction of female solidarity. This perspective proves inadequate to the extent that it ignores particular forms of female gossip which highlight patterns of competition between women and excludes the possibility that men could engage in the practice of gossip too. In this article, I aim to contribute to rece…
Complaint stories revisited
This article analyses and discusses excerpts from a friendly conversation among three Galician men in relation to broad characterisations of ‘feminine’ and ‘masculine’ interactional styles highlighted by more than two decades of sociolinguistic research on gender and discourse. In line with current tendencies in this area, it is assumed that these characterisations are ‘essentialist’, but it is also maintained that they capture quite well people’…
SecciÓN General. Recursos prosódicos y verbales para la intensificación de las emociones en la conversación cotidiana
Este artículo trata de poner de relieve el importante papel que desempeña el despliegue de emociones en la realización de una actividad comunicativa tan común como es la expresión de quejas. Apoyándose en el análisis de fragmentos de conversaciones “naturales” entre amigos/as y familiares, el presente artículo se centra en mostrar cómo se articulan los significados emotivos en el discurso de queja a través del trabajo coordinado de recursos de ti…
The humorous display of transgressor feminities
Over the last years, research on gender and conversational humour has demonstrated, contrary to popular beliefs and social stereotypes, that this mode of discourse is not only ‘men’s work’, but it can be performed both in feminine and masculine ways; so, while there is a masculine humour which is creative, competitive and playful, focused on entertainment as a strategy to reinforce bonds, there is also a feminine humour, which is supportive, inti…
Funciones socio-discursivas de las alternancias de gallego y español en la realización bilingüe de cotilleo
Este artículo aborda el papel de las alternancias gallego/español en la realización bilingüe de cotilleo. Tras reseñar estudios sobre este género discursivo procedentes de distintas disciplinas, repaso la historia del contacto gallego/español en Galicia y analizo tres fragmentos de cotilleo en una conversación “natural”, que incluyen alternancias en estas lenguas. En mis conclusiones resalto las funciones discursivas y sociolingüísticas que desem…
Gossip as indirect mockery in friendly conversation
This article focuses on the analysis of gossip that is done in a playful key, including laughter as a salient feature, drawing on extracts taken from two naturally occurring conversations among Galician female undergraduate students. The analysis indicates that gossip emerges as a form of indirect mockery in the data, which are commonly based on dramatized reported speech of the ‘victim’, including parodic stylization devices that are orientated …
Code-switching and emotions display in Spanish/Galician bilingual conversation
This paper aims to contribute to recent research on bilingualism and emotions from a discourse approach, analyzing extracts taken from a spontaneous conversation between two Spanish/Galician female bilinguals. Spanish is the base language of this interaction and the dominant language of the speakers, but the extracts selected correspond to sequences of gossip and complaints about third parties including switches into Galician. The analysis reveal…
Language, gender and sexual identity
Language, gender and sexual identity: Poststructuralist perspectives Heiko Motschenbacher (2010) Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. xii + 209 ISBN: 978 90 272 1868 1 (Hb; alk. Paper) ISBN 978 90 272 8750 2 (Eb) An interdisciplinary bibliography on language, gender and sexuality (2000–2011) Heiko Motschenbacher (2012)Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. vii + 294 ISBN: 978 90 272 1200 9 (Hb; alk. Paper) ISBN 978 90 272 7315…
The construction of future and hypothetical dialogues in third-party complaints as enactments of a subsequent direct complaint
This article shows that third-party complaints can orient to future or possible actions to solve an ongoing conflictive or problematic situation with the absent complainees. Relying on data from naturally occurring interactions among speakers of Spanish and Galician, the article analyses instances of future and hypothetical dialogues in complaint sequences about absent parties and demonstrates that these are designed as enactments of a direct com…
Staging mental discursive processes and reactions
This article approaches the construction of reported thought in everyday conversation by analysing instances of direct reported thought (DRT), taken from storytelling sequences. It is argued that DRT is used by narrators as a device to portray, in a dynamic sense, the ways in which they experience the story world in their mind, as discursive processes and reactions around an external event that clash with their expectations or initial perception …
Tía, me dolió, ¿sabes?”
In recent years, the vocative tío/a has attracted specific attention because of its frequency and salient pragmatic functions in everyday conversation in European Spanish. This paper presents a conversation-analytical approach to the feminine variant, tía , in extracts from a single conversation of almost twenty minutes among young women friends, who focus on the telling of stories of a personal nature and employ this form as a vocative around th…
Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Communication (5 works) · Conversation (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works)