Research

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Confrontational conversation

My PhD aims to establish the necessary and sufficient conditions for confrontational conversation. Given its interactional nature, a Conversation Analytic approach lies at the base of this work. The research branches in two directions: in one, I combine qualitative corpus analyses with experimental investigation to look at discourse markers in different contexts; in the other, I explore the role of Face in confrontation through a traditional theoretical linguistics methodology.


"No, you listen!" A pilot experiment into escalation devices in confrontational conversation [paper - poster] Joint work with Vladislav Maraev and Chris Howes

Towards an annotation of face effects in dialogue [talk] Joint work with Adil Soubki

Discourse markers as indicators of confrontation [talk - abstract]

Oh-prefaced disagreement: a marker of eristic dialogue [talk]


Confrontational conversation: testing assumptions about cooperativity [talk - abstract]

Exclamatives and verum 

(Joint work with Sebastian Buchczyk)

We propose a new category of exclamatives: whether-exclamatives can be found in European Portuguese and Standard German, among other languages. We explain how they work as responses to questions by claiming that they are always coordinated with a preceding assertion. We further develop our account and show that whether-exclamatives are a verum strategy.


Whether-exclamatives: a verum strategy [paper]


Whether-exclamatives and the division of labour in answers to questions [poster]

 

Whether-exclamatives: evidence from European Portuguese and Standard German [talk - abstract]


Whether-exclamatives [paper]


Whether-exclamatives [talk]


Whether-exclamatives: a VERUM strategy [talk - abstract]


VERUM in inversion exclamatives: evidence from European Portuguese [talk]