Patricia Bou-Franch

List of John Benjamins publications for which Patricia Bou-Franch plays a role.

Journals

Titles

Exploring Language Aggression against Women

Edited by Patricia Bou-Franch

[Benjamins Current Topics, 86] 2016. v, 159 pp.
Subjects Anthropological Linguistics | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology

Language Aggression Against Women

Edited by Patricia Bou-Franch

Special issue of Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 2:2 (2014) v, 120 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar and Patricia Bou-Franch 2024 Identities in conflict: Latinos in SpainJournal of Language Aggression and Conflict: Online-First Articles | Article
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… read more
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… read more
Bou-Franch, Patricia 2019 Chapter 9. Relational practices on commercial Facebook wall interactionsTechnology Mediated Service Encounters, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar, Lucía Fernández-Amaya and María de la O Hernández-López (eds.), pp. 223–244 | Chapter
This chapter explores mediated service encounters in social networking sites, as examples of the new (or reconfigured) forms of social organization and interaction brought about by technology. Social networking sites afford multidirectional communication, i.e. encounters between companies and… read more
Bou-Franch, Patricia and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2018 Relational work in multimodal networked interactions on FacebookInternet Pragmatics 1:1, pp. 134–160 | Article
The paper argues that the notion of Relational Work (Locher and Watts 2005) needs to be expanded to be able to account for sociability in the networked interactions afforded by social platforms such as Facebook. Thus, the aim of this paper is to explore how the nature of networked interactions… read more
Bou-Franch, Patricia 2016 ‘Did he really rape these bitches?’: Aggression, women, languageExploring Language Aggression against Women, Bou-Franch, Patricia (ed.), pp. 1–14 | Article
Bou-Franch, Patricia and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2016 Gender ideology and social identity processes in online language aggression against womenExploring Language Aggression against Women, Bou-Franch, Patricia (ed.), pp. 59–81 | Article
This chapter 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… read more
Bou-Franch, Patricia 2014 An Introduction to Language Aggression against WomenLanguage Aggression Against Women, Bou-Franch, Patricia (ed.), pp. 177–181 | Article
Bou-Franch, Patricia and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich 2014 Gender ideology and social identity processes in online language aggression against womenLanguage Aggression Against Women, Bou-Franch, Patricia (ed.), pp. 226–248 | Article
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… read more
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar, Patricia Bou-Franch and Nuria Lorenzo-Dus 2013 Despierten, Latinos (‘Wake up, Latinos’): Latino Identity, US Politics and YouTubeJournal of Language and Politics 12:4, pp. 558–582 | Article
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… read more
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… read more
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… read more