Valeria Sinkeviciute
List of John Benjamins publications for which Valeria Sinkeviciute plays a role.
Journal
Title
Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness: A pragmatic analysis of social interaction
Valeria Sinkeviciute
[Topics in Humor Research, 8] 2019. xi, 274 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics
Articles
Teasing Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment, Brisard, Frank, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke (eds.), pp. 156–176 | Chapter
2022 “Ya bloody drongo!!!”: Impoliteness as situated moral judgement on Facebook (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 67–97 | Chapter
2020 This sutdy explores impoliteness-related discourse on Facebook as a form of expressing situated moral judgement. The analysis focuses on negative and aggressive comments as a response to one public post that claims the non-existence of Australia. The content of the post indicates the threat to… read more
Accusations and interpersonal conflict in televised multi-party interactions amongst speakers of (Argentinian and Peninsular) Spanish Closeness and conflict: The discourse of domestic discord across English and Spanish-speaking communities, Boxer, Diana and María Elena Placencia (eds.), pp. 248–270 | Article
2018 While there is a growing body of research on impoliteness and conflict talk, the role of accusations in interpersonal conflict has been only addressed in passing. In this paper, we focus on accusations in conflict talk amongst interactants who are in a situation demanding the formation of… read more
“Ya bloody drongo!!!”: Impoliteness as situated moral judgement on Facebook (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 272–302 | Article
2018 This paper explores impoliteness-related discourse on Facebook as a form of expressing situated moral judgement. The analysis focuses on negative and aggressive comments as a response to one public post that claims the non-existence of Australia. The content of the post indicates the threat to… read more
“There’s definitely gonna be some serious carnage in this house” or how to be genuinely impolite in Big Brother UK Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 3:2, pp. 317–348 | Article
2015 Although it is quite easy to conceive of a number of conventionalised impoliteness formulae that, depending on context, do not lead to the hearer’s evaluations of impoliteness, there are many situations when the speaker aims to be genuinely impolite and does not try to mitigate his/her verbal… read more
Decoding encoded (im)politeness: “Cause on my teasing you can depend” Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 263–288 | Article
2013 This chapter approaches teasing as one of the most ambiguous types of conversational humour. Based on the teasing episodes found in the British National Corpus, it proposes different categories of doing teasing, its functions and the target’s reactions. The results show that with the help of… read more