Maria Sivenkova
List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Sivenkova plays a role.
Articles
2015 Metacommunicative follow-ups in British, German and Russian political webchats Follow-ups in Political Discourse: Explorations across contexts and discourse domains, Weizman, Elda and Anita Fetzer (eds.), pp. 109–136 | Article
The present study explores discursive functions and cross-cultural peculiarities
of follow-ups containing metacommunicative utterances derived from
political live webchats. It seeks to identify some typical patterns of online
dialogue/polylogue
organisation by filtering out discursive functions of… read more
2013 On the metapragmatics of British, German and Russian political questions and answers The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across cultures, Fetzer, Anita (ed.), pp. 21–46 | Article
The study focuses on negative evaluative metapragmatic moves incorporated in the sequential structure of questions and answers in English, German and Russian parliamentary debates and political interviews, in which the questioner and the respondent reproach each other (and other political agents)… read more
2012 Chapter 9. Metacommunication and intertextuality in British and Russian parliamentary answers Spaces of Polyphony, Lorda, Clara Ubaldina and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (eds.), pp. 129–142 | Chapter
The chapter proposes a typology of metacommunicative criticisms occurring in answers to oral questions in the British and Russian parliaments. A range of communicative behaviours are criticised by the respondents while answering parliamentary questions: posing the same question more than once,… read more
2010 Appropriateness in interpersonal communication Discourses in Interaction, Tanskanen, Sanna-Kaisa, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo, Marjut Johansson and Mia Raitaniemi (eds.), pp. 239–262 | Article
The paper investigates a variety of communicative moves in which interlocutors negotiate appropriateness of an utterance. Two types of such moves are analysed: prospective (the speaker prepares the ground for her future speech act by checking on the utterance’s appropriateness) and retrospective… read more