Adriana Bolívar
List of John Benjamins publications for which Adriana Bolívar plays a role.
2010 8. Dialogue in the dynamics of political practice Dialogue in Spanish: Studies in functions and contexts, Koike, Dale and Lidia Rodríguez-Alfano (eds.), pp. 159–188 | Chapter
An approach to dialogue is presented that combines Conversational Analysis, the study of evaluation in discourse, and a critical interactionist perspective. The research concentrates on the changes that Venezuelan dialogue has undergone in the last ten years, beginning especially with President… read more
2009 Certainty and commitment in the construction of academic knowledge in the humanities Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Academic Discourse, Suomela-Salmi, Eija and Fred Dervin (eds.), pp. 33–48 | Article
In this paper we report on the analysis of thirty two research articles written in Spanish in the fields of education, linguistics, philosophy and psychology, with the purpose of identifying writers’ choices of modality and modal commitment. The objective was to find out how disciplinary discourse… read more
2008 Perceptions of (Im)politeness in Venezuelan Spanish: The role of evaluation in interaction (Im)politeness in Spanish-speaking socio-cultural contexts, Bravo, Diana (ed.), pp. 605–633 | Article
In this paper I shall use a test of social habits in order to unveil the different types of interactions and meanings observable in it: First, the interactions represented in hypothetical situations which reflect the expectations of a group of speakers concerning what they believe it is… read more
2005 Dialogue and confrontation in Venezuelan political interaction Applied Linguistics in Latin America, Rajagopalan, Kanavillil (ed.), pp. 3–17 | Article
This paper focuses on political change in Venezuela from a critical discourse analysis perspective that emphasizes the roles of the participants in the interaction to show how, with their actions, they are affected and affect others. An interactional approach based on Firth’s categories of context… read more
2001 The negotiation of evaluation in written text Patterns of Text: In honour of Michael Hoey, Scott, Mike and Geoff Thompson † (eds.), pp. 129–158 | Article
Editors’ introduction
Bolívar’s paper deals with evaluation in text. Her wider aim, like that of a number of other contributors here (Sinclair, Coulthard, Edge & Wharton, Scott, Thompson & Thompson, and Hunston), is to understand text as social interaction, but her starting point is the social… read more