Sara Orthaber

Orthaber, Sara 2022 Review of Kádár (2017): Politeness, Impoliteness and Ritual: Maintaining the Moral Order in Interpersonal Interaction Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 10:2, pp. 351–355 | Review

Márquez Reiter, Rosina and Sara Orthaber 2020 Exploring the moral compass: Denunciations in a Facebook carpool group (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 37–65 | Chapter

With the advent of the internet and social media, car and vanpooling have become easily available alternatives to public transport in many parts of the world. This study draws on publicly available data from a Facebook car and vanpooling group used by Slovenian cross-border commuters to make their… read more

Márquez Reiter, Rosina and Sara Orthaber 2018 Exploring the moral compass: Denunciations in a Facebook carpool group (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 242–271 | Article

With the advent of the internet and social media, car and vanpooling have become easily available alternatives to public transport in many parts of the world. This paper draws on publicly available data from a Facebook car and vanpooling group used by Slovenian cross-border commuters to make… read more

Orthaber, Sara and Rosina Márquez Reiter 2018 When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.), pp. 135–160 | Article

This paper examines interpersonally sensitive exchanges in two calls for information to the call centre of a public transport company. In order to provide relevant information and facilitate sequence progressivity, the agents need to go through specific steps. Although this is typical of… read more

Orthaber, Sara and Rosina Márquez Reiter 2016 When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive (Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.), pp. 638–663 | Article

This paper examines interpersonally sensitive exchanges in two calls for information to the call centre of a public transport company. In order to provide relevant information and facilitate sequence progressivity, the agents need to go through specific steps. Although this is typical of… read more

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