Maria Blitvich

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ENGL_blitEducation

University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

  • Ph.D. in English, Summa cum Laude
  • M.A. in English, with distinction
  • B.A. in English Philology, Emphasis in Linguistics

Research Interests

  • Conflict/Aggression
  • Im/politeness models
  • Genre theory
  • Identity construction
  • Traditional/Social media

Editorship

Editorial board member

Journals

  • Journal of Pragmatics – Elsevier
  • Journal of Contrastive Pragmatics – Brill
  • Journal of Corpus Pragmatics – Springer
  • Internet Pragmatics – John Benjamins
  • Pragmática Sociocultural/Sociocultural Pragmatics – Mouton de Gruyter
  • BELT – Brazilian English Language Teaching Journal –  Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul – http://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/ojs/index.php/belt
  • European Languages in Contrast – Europäische Sprachen im Kontrast (ESK) – Metzler/Springer Science

Book series

  • Cambridge Elements in Pragmatics – Cambridge University Press https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/elements/pragmatics
  • Advances in (Im)politeness Studies – Springer

Involvement in professional organizations

  • Co-convenor ADDA (Advances in Digital Discourse Analysis) International Conference
  • Member of the International Pragmatics Association Consultation Board

Selected Publications Since 2010

1) Edited books and special issues

  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Georgakopoulou, A. (in preparation) Influencers and ‘fans’: The pragmatics of affect and hate in the construction of social media celebrities.
  • Ogiermann, E. & Garcés Conejos Blitvich, P. (Eds.) (2019). From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: Multilingual and multicultural perspectives. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P., Fernández, Amaya, L. & Hernández-López, M.(Eds.) (2019). Technology mediated service encounters. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Eds.) (2019). Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Sifianou, Maria & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Guest editors) (2018). Special Issue on Im/politeness and Globalization. Journal of Pragmatics 134.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P.  (Guest editors). (2014). Special issue: The pragmatics of textual participation in the social media. Journal of Pragmatics 73, 1-82.
  • Lorenzo-Dus, N. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Eds.) (2013) Real talk: Reality television and discourse analysis in action. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Guest editor). (2013). Special issue – The interconnections between face and identity. Journal of Politeness Research 9, 1.
  • Macaulay, M. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Eds.) (2012). Pragmatics and context. Toronto, CA: Antares.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Guest editor) (2010) Special Issue- Impoliteness across Cultures. Intercultural Pragmatics 7, 4.

2) Book chapters (peer reviewed)

  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (forthcoming). Getting into the mob: A netnographic, case-study approach to online public shaming. In M. Johansson et al. (eds.), Analysing Digital Discourse: Practices of Convergence and Controversy. London: Palgrave Mcmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Lorenzo-Dus, N. (forthcoming). Go ahead and ‘debunk’ truth by calling it a conspiracy theory” – The discursive construction of conspiracy theoryness in online affinity spaces. In R. Breeze et al (eds), Discourses of and about conspiracy theories. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Kádár, D. (2021). Morality and socio-pragmatics. In M. Haugh, D. Kádár & M. Terkourafi (Eds.). Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Georgakopoulou, A. (2021). Analyzing identity. In M. Haugh, D. Kádár & M. Terkourafi (Eds.). Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2021). “Imagen pública, cortesía y descortesía”. In V. Escandell et al. (eds.) Manual práctico de pragmática. AKAL.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2021). Impoliteness and conflict in Spanish. In D. Koike & C. Félix Brasdefer (Eds.)  The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Pragmatics. London: Routledge.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2019). La descortesía en las redes sociales. In X. Padilla & M. E. Placencia (Eds.) Guía práctica de pragmática del español. London: Routledge.
  • Bou-Franch, P & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2019). Spanish retailer-consumer interactions on Facebook:  A variational pragmatics perspective on conflict. In Maria Elena Placencia & César Félix-Brasdefer (Eds.) Pragmatic variation in service encounter interactions. London: Routledge.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2019). “You are shamed for speaking it or for not speaking it good enough”: Paradoxical status of Spanish in the US Latino community” In L. Jeffries and J. O’Driscoll (eds.) Handbook of Language in Conflict (pp. 398-416). Routledge.
  • Ogiermann, E. and Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2019). Im/politeness between the analyst and participant perspectives – an overview of the field. In E. Ogierman, & P. Garcés Conejos Blitvich, (Eds.) (2019). From speech acts to lay concepts of politeness: A multilingual, multicultural perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, Patricia (2019). Emic conceptualizations of imagen in Peninsular Spanish. In E. Ogiermann, & P. Garcés Conejos Blitvich (eds.) (2019). From speech acts to lay concepts of politeness: A multilingual, multicultural perspective. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
  • Roeder, R., Miller, E. R., & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2019) Pedagogy, Audience, and Attitudes: Influencing University Students’ Metalinguistic Awareness about Texting Practices. In P. Bou-Franch & P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.), Analyzing Digital Discourse: New Insights and Future Directions (pp. 367-390). Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P., & Sifianou, M. (2017). Im/politeness and identity. In J. Culpeper, M. Haugh, & D. Kádár (eds.) Handbook of Linguistic (Im)Politeness (pp.227-256). Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Sifianou, M., & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2017). Im/politeness and cultural variation. In J. Culpeper, M. Haugh, & D. Kádár (eds.) Handbook of Linguistic (Im)Politeness (pp.571-600). Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2016). Gender ideology and social identity processes in online language aggression against women. In P. Bou-Franch (ed.) Exploring Language Aggression Against Women. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Benjamins Current Content Series).
  • Garcés-Conejos, Blitvich, P. (2015). Setting the linguistics research agenda for the e-service encounters genre: Natively digital versus digitized perspectives. In L. Fernández-Amaya & M. Hernández-Lopez (Eds.). Service encounters and cross-cultural communication (pp. 15-36). Leiden: Brill.
  • Garcés-Conejos, Blitvich, P. and Lorenzo-Dus, Nuria (2013). ‘GET INVOLVED!: Community and conversation in the 2008 Obama presidential e-campaign, In M. Ekstrom & A. Tolson (Eds.). Democracy in deficit? Media talk and political elections in Europe and America. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lorenzo-Dus, N. Bou-Franch, P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P (2013). “Impoliteness in USA / UK talent shows – A diachronic study of the evolution of a genre.” In N. Lorenzo-Dus & P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.) Real talk: Reality television and discourse analysis in action. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P & Lorenzo-Dus, N (2013). “The discourse of reality TV.”  In N. Lorenzo-Dus & P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.) Real talk: Reality television and discourse analysis in action. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Lorenzo-Dus, N. & Garcés-Conejos, Blitvich, P (2013). “Different methodological approaches to the analysis of reality TV.” In N. Lorenzo-Dus & P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (Eds.) Real talk: Reality television and discourse analysis in action. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos, Blitvich, P.& Lorenzo-Dus, N, Bou-Franch, P. (2013).“Relational work in anonymous, asynchronous communication: A study of (dis)affiliation in YouTube” In I. Kecskes & J. Romero-Trillo (Eds.). Linguistic aspects of intercultural pragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2012). El modelo del género y la des/cortesía clasificatoria en las evaluaciones de Sálvame por parte de la audiencia (Genre and classificatory im/politeness in assessments of Sálvame). In Catalina Fuentes (ed.) (Des)cortesía para el espectáculo; Estudios de pragmática variacionista. Madrid: Arco Libros.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2012). “Politics, “lies” and YouTube: A genre approach to assessments of im/politeness on Obama’s 9/9/2009 presidential address”. In L. Fernandez-Amaya et al (Eds.). New perspectives on (im)politeness and interpersonal communication. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2010). “Who ‘we’ are: the construction of American corporate identity” In J.C. Palmer et al. (Eds.) English for professional and academic purposes. (pp. 121-137). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2010). “The YouTubification of politics, impoliteness and polarization”. In R. Taiwo (Ed.) Handbook of research on discourse behavior and digital communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction. (pp. 540-563). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

3) Papers in peer-reviewed journals

  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (under review). Karen: Stigmatized social identity and face-threat in the on/offline nexus.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P.  (under review). Moral emotions, good moral panics, social regulation, and online public shaming.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Sifianou, M. (2019). Im/politeness in discursive pragmatics. In Quo Vadis Pragmatics? Recent developments in the field of pragmatics. Special issue of the Journal of Pragmatics, guest edited by M. Haugh & M. Terkourafi, 145: 91-101.
  • Sifianou, M. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2018). Editorial: Globalization and Im/politeness. Journal of Pragmatics, 134, 113-119
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich P. (2018). Globalization, transnational identities, and conflict talk: The complexity of the Latino identity. Journal of Pragmatics 134: 120-133.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P.  (2018) Relational work in multimodal networked interactions on Facebook. Internet Pragmatics 1(1): 134-160.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2014) ¿!Hispano y Blanco?!: Racialización de la identidad Latina en YouTube. Discurso y Sociedad 8(3): 427-461.
  • Fernández-Amaya, L., Hernández-López, M & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2014) Spanish travelers’ expectations of service encounters in domestic and international settings. Tourism, Culture and Communication 14 (2): 117-134.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2014) Gender ideology and social identity processes in online language aggression against women, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 2, (2): 226-248,. Included in the special issue on language violence against women.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2014). Conflict management in massive polylogues: A case study from YouTube. Journal of Pragmatics 73, 19-36.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P., Bou-Franch, P & Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2013). “Despierten, Latinos” (Wake up, Latinos): Latino Identity, US politics and YouTube”. Journal of Language and Politics 12 (4): 558-582.
  • Dobs, Abby & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar (2013).Impoliteness in interaction: Accounting for face-threat witness’s responses. Journal of Pragmatics 53: 112-130.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2013). “Face, identity, and im/politeness: Looking backwards, moving forward – From Goffman to Practice Theory”, Journal of Politeness Research 9, 1.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P., Lorenzo-Dus, N. & Bou-Franch, P. (2013). Identity and impoliteness: The expert in the talent show Idol. Journal of Politeness Research 9, 1.
  • Bou-Franch, P., Lorenzo-Dus, N, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2012).Social interaction in YouTube text-based polylogues: A study of coherence. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication, 17, 501–521
  • Lorenzo-Dus, N., Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P.  (2011). Online polylogues and impoliteness: The case of postings sent in response to the Obama Reggaeton YouTube video. Journal of Pragmatics 43, 10: 2578-2593.
  •  Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2010). The status quo and quo-vadis of impoliteness research. Intercultural Pragmatics 7, 4: 535–559.
  •  Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P., Bou-Franch, P & Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2010). A genre-approach to im-politeness in a Spanish TV talk show: Evidence from corpus-based analysis, questionnaires and focus groups. Intercultural Pragmatics 7, 4: 689–723.
  •  Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P & Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2010). “On-line community organizing: Rapport and directness. A case study from the Obama presidential campaign”. Issues in Political Discourse Analysis 3, 1: 22-46.
  •  Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2010). “A genre approach to the study of im-politeness”. International Review of Pragmatics 2, 1: 46-94.

4) Presentations Since 2010

4.1. Plenary lectures and invited keynote presentations:

  • Using linguistics to understand and analyze Cancel Culture. University of Toronto,  March 7, 2021.
  • Moral indignation, moral panics, social regulation, and online shaming, Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis International Conference, University of Turku, Finland, May 23-25, 2019.
  • Smart mobs, cyber public shaming, and social justice. 11th International Conference on Im/Politeness. University of Valencia, July 4-6, 2018.
  • Cultural violence, transnational identities, and citizen discourse: Latinos versus immigrants, University of Lancaster, UK, May 25, 2016.
  • “Globalisation, conflict and identity” MAES-IULMA Institute, University of Valencia, Spain. November 24-25, 2015.
  • “Social media, conflict, and identity” Oberrmann Center for Advanced Studies. University of Iowa. Keynote presentation and round table. October 12-13, 2015.
  • Globalization, transnational identities, and conflict talk: The complexity of the Latino identity. 9th International Conference on Im/Politeness:Im/politeness and globalization, University of Athens, July 1-3, 2015.
  •  “Cyber service encounters” –1st Service Encounters & Cross-Cultural Communication Symposium –  University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, January 2013.
  • Current approaches to the study of im/politeness: The genre model”. University of Valencia, Spain. November 9, 2011.
  • “Impoliteness in an L2”. Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. November 10, 2011.
  • A genre approach to the study of im-politeness — IV EPICS symposium. University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain, March 2010

4.2. Presentations in national and international conferences – refereed

  • Lorenzo-Dus, N. & Garcés -Conejos Blitvich, P. (2021) I was hoping I didn’t need to clarify – that was typed in sarcasm font’ – Norms and knowledge construction in the /r/conspiracytheories affinity space. Panel on Im/politeness norms in online affinity spaces organized by P. G. Blitvich and Marta Dynel. IPrA Conference, June 27-July 2, Winterthur, Switzerland.
  • Garcés -Conejos Blitvich, P. (2021) Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d, Nor hell a fury, like an affronted smart mob: Canceling Influencers in an age of outrage. Panel on Influencers & ‘fans’: The pragmatics of affect & hate in the construction of social media celebrities, organized by A. Georgakopoulou and P. G. Blitvich. IPrA Conference, June 27-July 2, Winterthur, Switzerland.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2020) Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d, Nor hell a fury, like an affronted smart mob: Canceling Influencers in an age of outrage: The cancelation of Chichi Eburu, owner and CEO of Juvia’s Place. International workshop on ‘Influencers & fans’: The pragmatics of affect and hate. November 4.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2020). Canceling: Boycotting and shaming rituals in an outrage culture. II International Internet Pragmatics Conference. University of Helsinki. October 2020.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2018). “You are shamed for speaking it or for not speaking it good enough”: Paradoxical status of Spanish in the US Latino community. VIII International Symposium on intercultural, cognitive and social pragmatics. Seville, Spain, May 2-4.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos, P. (2018). “Relational work in multimodal networked interactions on Facebook”. VIII International Symposium on intercultural, cognitive and social pragmatics. Seville, Spain, May 2-4.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2017). Specialist Panel Convenors: Post-Civility and ALT-Impoliteness, 10th International Symposium on Politeness. York St. John University, York (UK), July 12-14, 2017.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2017). Trolling in the name of free speech: The Milo Yiannopoulos’s case. 10th International Symposium on Politeness. York St. John University, York (UK), July 12-14, 2017.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2017). “Peninsular Spanish retailer-consumer ineractions on Facebook: A variational pragmatics perspective.”  15 International Pragmatics Association Conference, Belfast (UK), July 16-21, 2017.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Sifianou, M. (2016). “Problematizing ‘them’: The discourse of the far right in Southern Europe”. 1st International Conference “Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders” September 23rd-25th, 2016 in Athens, Greece.
  • Roeder, R., Miller, E. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2015). Pedagogy, audience, and attitudes: Influencing metalinguistic awareness about texting practices. ADDA I – Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis Conference. Valencia (Spain), December 18-20.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2015). Conflictual micro-strategies of identity negotiation: The Latino transnational identity and citizen discourse. 14th International Pragmatics Association Conference. Antwerp (Belgium), July 26-31
  • Hernández-López, M. Fernández-Amaya, L. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2015). A Contrast between Expected and Experienced Politeness in English-Speaking Contexts. 14th International Pragmatics Association Conference. Antwerp (Belgium), July 26-31.
  • Garcés-Conejos, P. (2015). Transnational identity and citizen discourse: Latinos versus immigrants. Georgetown University Round Table on Linguistics. March 13-15.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2014). Discourses of inequality: Gender violence in Spanish newspapers. V Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Conference. Budapest, September 1-3, 2014.
  • Hernández-López, M.  Fernandez-Amaya, L. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2014) Conflict language in service encounters: Impoliteness at hotel reception desks. 8th International Conference of Politeness. University of Huddersfield, July 9-11, 2014.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. and Sifianou, M. (2014). Convenors: Panel on Language Aggression and Conflict. 8th International Conference of Politeness. University of Huddersfield, July 9-11, 2014.
  • Bou-Franch, P. Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2014). Language aggression against women: gender identity and inequality in online discourse. EPICS VI, University of Seville, May 12-14, 2014.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar. (2013) A White Latino?! When labels don’t fit: The construction of the Latino identity. ENIEDA Discussion Panel: (Beyond) Europe: Identity in text, context and Interaction. Convenors: Svetlana Kurteš and Monika Kopytowska. 1st Bydgoszcz Symposium Discursive Constructions of Europe. 15-16 November.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P (2013) (with Bou-Franch P.). Conflict in on-line responses to public service advertising. Teaching and Learning (Im)politeness. SOAS University of London 8-10 July.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P (2012) Convenor (with Bou-Franch, P.) Panel – The pragmatics of textual participation in the new media. IAMPRA – Pragmatics of the Americas /V ICUP – Intercultural Pragmatics International Conference, UNC Charlotte, October 19-21, 2012.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P (2012) Convenor (with Fernandez-Amaya, L. & Hernandez-Lopez, M/) Panel – Service encounters. IAMPRA – Pragmatics of the Americas /V ICUP – Intercultural Pragmatics International Conference, UNC Charlotte, October 19-21, 2012.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P (2012) (with Abby Dobs) Responses to Impoliteness in Polylogal Interaction – LIAR III – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. August 29-31, 2012.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2011) Convenor – (with Lorenzo-Dus) – Panel – The discourse of reality TV. XII International Pragmatics Conference. Manchester, UK. July 3-8.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P.; Lorenzo-Dus, N. & Bou-Franch, P. (2010) Selective dissociation, code-switching and impoliteness: The construction of the Latino identity in an on-line, polylogal, diasporic environment. IV International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication. Madrid, Spain. November 15-17, 2010.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2010) Convenor – Panel on “Face and identity on and off line”. V International Symposium on Politeness. University of Basel, Switzerland. June 30-July 2, 2010.
  • Lorenzo-Dus, N., Bou-Franch, P. and Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. “Identity-driven/identity-constrained im-politeness? The case of exploitative television”. V International Symposium on Politeness. University of Basel, Switzerland. June 30-July 2, 2010.
  • Bou-Franch, P., Lorenzo-Dus, N. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P.  “Making sense of on-line polylogues: A study of YouTube interaction” EPICS IV – March 24-26 2010. Universidad Pablo de Olavide. Seville, Spain.

Courses Taught 

    1) Undergraduate courses

  • ENGL 3132 – Introduction to contemporary American English
  • ENGL 3162-  Language and the virtual world
  • ENGL 4165 – Language and culture
  • ENGL 4050 – Introduction to pragmatics and discourse analysis
  • ENGL 4050 – Teaching English to Non-Native Speakers
  • ENGL 4050 – Language and culture through digital discourse analysis
  • ENGL 4168 – Multimodality and text description
  • ENGL 4267 – Identity, Social Interaction, and Community in Digital Spaces

     2) Graduate courses

  • ENGL 5050 – Language and culture
  • ENGL 5075 – Language and culture through digital discourse analysis
  • ENGL 6070 – Language and context
  • ENGL 6127 – Seminar in language, culture, and society
  • ENGL 6160 – Introduction to the English language
  • ENGL 6161 – Introduction to linguistics
  • ENGL 6163 – Language acquisition
  • ENGL 6164 – Comparative language analysis for teachers
  • ENGL 6165 – Introduction to English for Specific Purposes