Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish: Explorations across genres
Edited by Carolina Figueras Bates and Adrián Cabedo
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 290] 2018. vi, 254 pp.
Carolina Figueras Bates
List of John Benjamins publications for which Carolina Figueras Bates plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics | Theoretical linguistics
2024 Conflict resolution in online mental health support groups: The role of empathy and informal mediation Online Health Communication: Expert and Lay Dialogic Practices, Tereszkiewicz, Anna and Magdalena Szczyrbak (eds.), pp. 239–267 | Article
The literature on online mental health support groups usually stresses the harmonious side of users’ interactions. However, differences regarding the experience of the illness might escalate into social conflict. The aim of this study is to explore acts of conflict resolution in an online… read more
2023 Chapter 12. Peer experts as actors for shared understanding in Spanish online health fora A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding, Bigi, Sarah and Maria Grazia Rossi (eds.), pp. 291–312 | Chapter
In this study, we compare how ‘peer experts’, understood as lay users who have achieved expertise and credibility on a particular health condition through personal experience (Vydiswaran and Reddy 2019), fulfill a bridging function by creating shared understandings on patient fora on diabetes vs… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Evidentiality in discourse Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish: Explorations across genres, Figueras Bates, Carolina and Adrián Cabedo (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 4. Performing the self in illness narratives: The role of evidentiality Perspectives on Evidentiality in Spanish: Explorations across genres, Figueras Bates, Carolina and Adrián Cabedo (eds.), pp. 73–106 | Chapter
Narrating the personal experience of a chronic illness poses the challenge of reflecting on epistemic states and sources of evidence that shape the person´s past, present and future selves. To explore the role of evidentials in different illness stories, 32 unsolicited narratives of eating… read more
2018 Atenuación, género discursivo e imagen Estrategias atenuantes en géneros discursivos del español: Interfaz semántico-pragmática, Albelda Marco, Marta (ed.), pp. 258–280 | Article
La imagen constituye un fenómeno que puede abordarse desde múltiples perspectivas y que involucra distintos componentes de carácter cognitivo, psicológico, social, cultural e interpersonal. El presente trabajo persigue un doble objetivo: por una parte, ofrecer una definición multidimensional e… read more
2018 Evidentiality in illness narratives: Structures with the Spanish verb ver in autobiographical narratives of eating disorders Discourse approaches to evidentiality in Spanish, Albelda Marco, Marta and María Estellés (eds.), pp. 356–380 | Article
Narratives of severe mental illness can be regarded as the discursive efforts of a healthy self to restore a sense of selfhood disrupted by the illness. Focusing on a sample of 87 unsolicited online illness narratives of eating disorders in Spanish, this article explores how narrators deployed… read more