Valeria Sinkeviciute

List of John Benjamins publications for which Valeria Sinkeviciute plays a role.

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Subjects Discourse studies | Humor studies | Pragmatics

Articles

Sinkeviciute, Valeria 2022 TeasingHandbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment, Brisard, Frank, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke (eds.), pp. 156–176 | 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
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
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
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
Sinkeviciute, Valeria 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