Alla V. Tovares
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alla V. Tovares plays a role.
Articles
2023 Chapter 13. “So my job is translating from professional cook to home cook”: Cookbook writers talk recipes on “Food to Words” podcast Pragmatics and Translation, Locher, Miriam A., Daria Dayter and Thomas C. Messerli (eds.), pp. 306–325 | Chapter
This chapter explores how three cookbook writers talk about crafting “the verbal ingredients of a well-written recipe” as well as of themselves as translators of cooking actions and expertise. The analysis shows how in their metalinguistic comments the writers articulate pragmatic rules,… read more
2012 Watching out loud: A television quiz show as a resource in family interaction The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life, Ayaß, Ruth and Cornelia Gerhardt (eds.), pp. 105–130 | Article
Building on a diverse body of work and drawing on the notions of dialogicality and intertextuality, this study considers one of the ways families appropriate television texts. Specifically, I analyze how adult members of two American families play along with the participants in the TV quiz show Who… read more
2010 All in the family: Small stories and narrative construction of a shared family identity that includes pets Narrative Inquiry 20:1, pp. 1–19 | Article
In recent years, narrative analysis has experienced what can be identified as a small stories turn. Specifically, some researchers, especially Bamberg (2004, 2006), Georgakopoulou (2006, 2007), Bamberg and Georgakopoulou (2008), have argued that the analysis of small stories that have been… read more