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
(2024) SemDial 28 @University of Trento (IT).
Towards an annotation of face effects in dialogue [talk] Joint work with Adil Soubki
(2024) Formal linguistics research group [GLiF] Seminar @Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (ES).
Discourse markers as indicators of confrontation [talk - abstract]
(2023) Linguistics Research Seminars (Department of Philosophy, Linguistics and Theory of Science). University of Gothenburg (SE).
(2023) 14th Tbilisi Symposium on Logic, Language and Computation [TbiLLC]. Telavi, (GE).
Oh-prefaced disagreement: a marker of eristic dialogue [talk]
(2023) 56th Annual meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea [SLE]. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (GR).
Confrontational conversation: testing assumptions about cooperativity [talk - abstract]
(2023) Pragmatics International Congress. Università della Calabria, Rende (IT).
(2022) UR-Ling Workshop 2022. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (ES).
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]
(2023) Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft
Whether-exclamatives and the division of labour in answers to questions [poster]
(2023) NELS 53 @Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (DE).
Whether-exclamatives: evidence from European Portuguese and Standard German [talk - abstract]
(2022) Going Romance 2022 @Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES).
Whether-exclamatives [paper]
(2022) Proceedings of the ESSLLI 2022 Student Session.
Whether-exclamatives [talk]
(2022) ESSLLI 2022 Student Session @National University of Ireland, Galway (IE).
Whether-exclamatives: a VERUM strategy [talk - abstract]
(2022) SLE 2022 @University of Bucharest (RO).
(2022) RomTiN 9 @University of Utrecht (NL).
VERUM in inversion exclamatives: evidence from European Portuguese [talk]
(2022) Formal linguistics research group [GLiF] Seminar @Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona (ES).