Valeria Sinkeviciute
List of John Benjamins publications for which Valeria Sinkeviciute plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 0155-0640 | E-ISSN 1833-7139
Titles
Advances in the Study of Social Action in Online Interaction
Edited by Valeria Sinkeviciute
Special issue of Internet Pragmatics 7:1 (2024) v, 191 pp.
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
2024 Multimodal joint fantasising as a category‑implicative and category‑relations‑implicative action in online multi‑party interaction Advances in the Study of Social Action in Online Interaction, Sinkeviciute, Valeria (ed.), pp. 101–136 | Article
Drawing on interactional pragmatics and membership categorisation analysis, with a focus on (un)accomplished intersubjectivity, categories and social action, this paper explores some new aspects of multimodal joint fantasising in online interaction. The data for this study comes from the public… read more
2024 Introduction: Interactional analysis of social action in online interaction Advances in the Study of Social Action in Online Interaction, Sinkeviciute, Valeria (ed.), pp. 1–6 | Introduction
2022 Teasing Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment, Brisard, Frank, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke (eds.), pp. 156–176 | Chapter
2020 “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
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
2018 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
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
2018 “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
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
2015 “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
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
2013 Decoding encoded (im)politeness: “Cause on my teasing you can depend” Developments in Linguistic Humour Theory, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 263–288 | Article
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