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I am Chancellor’s Professor and Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. My research has focused on the intersections of language, identity, and relational work. Early on, I examined how speakers negotiate social relationships and identities through im/politeness, especially in intercultural and institutional contexts. Over time, my work moved increasingly toward digital and public discourse, with particular attention to aggression and conflict, such as online public shaming and cancel culture. From a discourse-pragmatic perspective, this research treats aggression, conflict, and moral evaluation as socially situated practices shaped by genre, platform affordances, and ideological positioning. More recently, I have focused on the aftermath of public transgression, exploring how forgiveness, repair, and reintegration are discursively negotiated in post-digital publics.

Education

University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain

  • Ph.D. in English, Summa cum Laude – Link to dissertation https://hdl.handle.net/10550/119942
  • M.A. in English, with distinction
  • B.A. in Anglo-Germanic Philology, Emphasis in Linguistics

Research Interests

  • Conflict/Aggression
  • Im/politeness models
  • Genre theory
  • Identity construction
  • Legacy/Digital media

Editorship

Ranked as Q1   https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100832984#tabs=0

Editorial board member

Journals

  • Journal of Pragmatics – Elsevier
  • Journal of Contrastive Pragmatics – De Gruyter Brill
  • Journal of Corpus Pragmatics – Springer
  • Intercultural Pragmatics – De Gruyter Brill
  • Internet Pragmatics – John Benjamins
  • Journal of Politeness Research – De Gruyter Brill
  • Pragmática Sociocultural/Sociocultural Pragmatics – De Gruyter Brill
  • 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

Involvement in research projects

Involvement in professional organizations

Selected Publications Since 2010

1) Books, edited books, and special issues

  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (in progress). Forgiveness and reintegration in post-digital societies: Metapragmatic and technosocial approaches. Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Sifianou, M. (Eds.) (in progress). Handbook of language aggression and conflict. John Benjamins.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Haugh, M. (Eds.) (in progress). The pragmatics of online public shaming and aggression. Special issue. Internet Pragmatics.
  • Márquez Reiter, R. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2025). Contrasting the pragmatics of Spanishes. Special issue. Open access. Journal of Contrastive Pragmatics.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Georgakopoulou, A. (Eds.) (2024) Influencer discourse: Affective relations and identities. John Benjamins.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2024). Pragmatics, (im)politeness, and intergroup communication: A multilayered, discursive analysis of Cancel Culture. Cambridge University Press.
  • Ogiermann, E. & Garcés Conejos Blitvich, P. (Eds.) (2019). From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness: Multilingual and multicultural perspectives.  Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P., Fernández, Amaya, L. & Hernández-López, M.(Eds.) (2019). Technology mediated service encounters. 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 gobalization. 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.  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 & Bou-Franch, P. (under revision). Online language aggression and conflict: A socio-technical perspective. In P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich & M. Sifianou (Eds.) (in progress). Handbook of language aggression and conflict. John Benjamins.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Yus Ramos, F. (forthcoming). Speech acts and digital communication. In D. Kádár & J. House (Eds.) The Cambridge handbook of speech acts. Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (forthcoming). Cancellations and consequences: The unapologetic and unyielding case of J.K. Rowling. In A. Georgakopoulou & T. Spilioti (eds.), Handbook of language and digital communication, 2nd ed. Routledge.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P & Bou-Franch, P. (2024). Desengañate …NO ERES BLANCO. Identity attribution and (non) verification – A case study of cross-cultural discursive struggle. In P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich & P. Bou-Franch (eds.), Evaluating identities online: Case studies from the Spanish speaking world. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2024). Cancel culture and influencers: The Hilaria Baldwin case. In P. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich & A. Georgakopoulou (Eds.) Influencer discourse: Affective relations and identities. John Benjamins.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Fernández-Amaya, L. (2023). The off/online nexus and public spaces: Morality, civility, and aggression in the attribution and ratification of the Karen social identity. In F. Yus, F., & A. Parini (Eds.)  The discursive construction of place in the digital age. Routledge.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2022). 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. John Benjamins.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2021). Getting into the mob: A netnographic, case-study approach to online public shaming. In M. Johansson, S. Tanskanen, & J Chovanec (Eds.), Analysing Digital Discourse: Practices of Convergence and Controversy, pp. 247-274. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Kádár, D. (2021). Morality and socio-pragmatics. In M. Haugh, D. Kádár & M. Terkourafi (Eds.). Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge University Press.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Georgakopoulou, A. (2021). Analyzing identity. In M. Haugh, D. Kádár & M. Terkourafi (Eds.). Handbook of Sociopragmatics. 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. 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.  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.  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. Ogiermann, & P. Garcés Conejos Blitvich, (Eds.) (2019). From speech acts to lay concepts of politeness: A multilingual, multicultural perspective.  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 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.  John Benjamins.
  • 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). 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. 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. 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. 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). 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). IGI Global.

3) Papers in peer-reviewed journals

  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, p., Bou-Franch, P. Sifianou, M., Sindoni, M.G. (in progress). Cancel culture on the go: Moral conflict in Southern Europe. Internet Pragmatics.
  • Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2024). Condolence posts in English and Spanish: A contrastive pragmatic analysis. Journal of Contrastive Pragmatics. Open access: https://brill.com/view/journals/jocp/aop/article-10.1163-26660393-bja10129/article-10.1163-26660393-bja10129.xml?language=en&srsltid=AfmBOopX8F2tf-_06cFKg-YLUJ5FY7g7mLGbprt30xnaT8yGxVtaF1he
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2024). Identities in conflict: Latinos in Spain. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict. https://doi.org/10.1075/jlac.00107.gar
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P.  (2022). Moral emotions, good moral panics, social regulation, and online public shaming. Language & Communication, 84, 61–75.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2022). Karen: Stigmatized social identity and face-threat in the on/offline nexus.  Journal of Pragmatics, 188:14-30.
  • 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:

  • Plenary talk – TBD -5th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics (ICDP-5), Zhejiang International Studies University, Hangzhou, China, 16–18 October 2026
  • Plenary talk – Resisting the imperative to forgive: Standing, agency, and reintegration in post-digital publics.10th CADAAD (Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines) Conference, University of Valladolid (Spain), July 8-10, 2026. https://www.cadaad.info/conferences
  • Plenary talk – Is forgiveness canceled? Metapragmatics, platformed publics, and techno-moral life – EPICS XII, University Pablo de Olavide, Seville (Spain), May 27th-29th 2026 https://eventos.upo.es/136716/detail/xii-international-symposium-on-intercultural-cognitive-and-social-pragmatics-epics-xii.html
  • Plenary talk – Postdigital moral wars and reconciliation: Cancel culture, degradation, and moral repair in
    platformed publics- Forum Basiliense: Interdisciplinary research forum at the University of Basel, Switzerland. May 26, 2026. Basel (Switzerland). https://forum-basiliense.unibas.ch/en/
  • Keynote – Forgiveness? in post-digital societies: A technosocial and metapragmatic perspective. Online lecture series on digital discourse and interaction.  Finnish Association of Applied Linguistics & Online Selves/Self Online (OSSO). November 5, 2025.
  • Plenary talk – Denuncia y perdón? en la era post-digital- VI RECoD (Red de comunicación digital en español) International Conference. Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), Lima, Perú. October 21-23, 2025. https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1155157303294598&set=pcb.1155163606627301
  • Plenary talk – Post-digital redemption? The metapragmatics of forgiveness– 19th Conference of the International Pragmatics Association. Brisbane, Australia, June 22-27, 2025. https://pragmatics.international/page/Brisbane 2025.
  • Plenary talk – “Towards an intergroup pragmatics” – 6TH International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association. University of South Florida, September 27-29, 2024. https://ampra-6.org/
  • Commencement Speech -Morality in a post-digital world- MAES – University of Valencia, May 27, 2024.
  • Plenary talk -Unlocking Cancel Culture and Intergroup Communication: Pragmatic Outlook– 41st International Conference of the Spanish Applied Linguistics Society. Polytechnic University of Valencia, April, April 17-19, 2024. https://aesla2024.upv.es/plenarios.html
  • Plenary talk -Cómo poner una pica en territorio posdigital: Nuevas metodologías para nuevos fenómenos: Proyecto sobre la cultura de la cancelación 2ndCoCoMint (Comunicación Conflictiva y Mediación) Network Workshop April 16, 2024 – University of Valencia (Spain).
  • Plenary talk -The pragmatics of light groups – Towards a further understanding of intergroup online communication. 18th International Conference of the China Pragmatics Association. Guangzhou, China. 26-28 August 2023.
  • Keynote – Identidad, agresión y multimodalidad en la interacción: La construcción de Karen. Universitat de València. March 27, 2022.
  • Keynote -The multimodal construction of conflictual identities: Karen. Universitat Jaume I, December 20, 2022.
  • Keynote -Constructing Karen: Alterity, aggression, and morality. Tuesday’s seminars of the Laboratory of Ethnographic Approaches to the study of Language, Department (Social Anthropology and History) of the University of the Aegean, Greece. November 8, 2022.
  • Keynote – Charting uncharted territory: Affect and Effect. Behind the Screen speaker series sponsored by the Digital discourse and media & writing lab. University of Southern Florida, October 30, 2022.
  • Plenary talk – A discursive-pragmatic approach to Cancel Culture – Intergroup communication and the on/offline nexus. First International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics. Zhejiang International Studies University, Hangzhou, China, 21-23 October 2022.
  • Keynote -Politeness and impoliteness: An overview of the field. Video repository of keynote talks: Ampliación y consolidación de la red internacional de estudios culturales, lingüísticos y literarios en lengua inglesa (PI2021/EXP.07) Directed by: José Santiago Fernández Vázquez y Antonio García Gómez, University of Alcalá de Henares. November, 2021.
  • Plenary talk- Using linguistics to understand and analyze Cancel Culture. University of Toronto, March 7, 2021.
  • Plenary talk – Moral indignation, moral panics, social regulation, and online shaming, Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis International Conference, University of Turku, Finland, May 23-25, 2019.
  • Plenary talk – Smart mobs, cyber public shaming, and social justice. 11th International Conference on Im/Politeness. University of Valencia, July 4-6, 2018.
  • Keynote – Cultural violence, transnational identities, and citizen discourse: Latinos versus immigrants, University of Lancaster, UK, May 25, 2016.
  • Keynote – “Globalisation, conflict and identity” MAES-IULMA Institute, University of Valencia, Spain. November 24-25, 2015.
  • Keynote – “Social media, conflict, and identity” Oberrmann Center for Advanced Studies. University of Iowa. Keynote presentation and round table. October 12-13, 2015.
  • Keynote – 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.
  • Plenary talk – “Cyber service encounters” –1st Service Encounters & Cross-Cultural Communication Symposium –  University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, January 2013.
  • Keynote- Current approaches to the study of im/politeness: The genre model”. University of Valencia, Spain. November 9, 2011.
  • Keynote – “Impoliteness in an L2”. Universitat Jaume I, Castellon, Spain. November 10, 2011.
  • Plenary talk – 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

  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (2025). The undoing? of JK Rowling’s degradation. ADDA 5 (Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis). University of Tilburg, The Netherlands, May 21-23, 2025
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (2024) Introducing Pragmatics, (Im)Politeness, and Intergroup Communication. A Multilayered, Discursive Analysis of Cancel Culture. Book presentation. XI EPICS Conference. Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville (Spain) May 22-24.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2023). Attributing and non/verifying ethno-racial identities in on/offline spaces. 4th Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis International Conference, Klagenfurt, Austria. October 12-14.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Sifianou, M. (2023). Convenors of expert panel: Conflict and language aggression in post-digital societies. 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Brussels 9-14 July.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Fernández Amaya, L. (2023). Morality, civility, and aggression in the attribution and ratification of the Karen social identity. Panel Conflict and language aggression in post-digital societies. 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Brussels 9-14 July.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2023). Colorism claims/attributions and (non)verifications: Desengañate …NO ERES BLANCO / Face it…YOU’RE NOT WHITE.
    18th International Pragmatics Conference, Brussels 9-14 July.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2022). La identidad latina en España: construcción discursiva (y conflictiva) en la red. IV Congreso Internacional RECOD; En torno a la comunicación digital en español: Cultura participativa y discurso en la red. University of Alicante (Spain) October 6-7.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2022). Interpersonal versus intergroup im/politeness. 24 Sociolinguistics Symposium. University of Ghent, Belgium. July 13-16.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2022). A discursive pragmatic approach to Cancel Culture. X International Symposium on intercultural, cognitive, and social pragmatics (EPICS). Pablo de Olavide University, Seville, Spain, May 23-25.
  • Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2022) Karen; Stigmatized social identity and face-threat in the on/offline nexus. 3rd International Conference of Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis (ADDA). University of Southern Florida, May 13-15.
  • 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 1502 – Intercultural Communication
  • 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
  • ENGLISH 4750 -090 — English Honors Seminar: The language of fiction

     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
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