Minerva Oropeza-Escobar

List of John Benjamins publications in which Minerva Oropeza-Escobar is involved.

Title

Represented Discourse, Resonance and Stance in Joking Interaction in Mexican Spanish

Minerva Oropeza-Escobar

The book provides a new angle for the study of otherwise amply discussed discourse and interactional phenomena. The new perspective consists in addressing the interconnections between resonance, stance, represented discourse and joking in Mexican conversational discourse. In so doing, it… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 204] 2011. vii, 271 pp.

Articles

Oropeza-Escobar, Minerva 2013 Direct reported speech as a frame for implicit reflexivity Approaches to grammar for interactional linguistics, pp. 481–498 | Article

By articulating the notions of reflexivity and participant roles in the context of direct reported speech, the present study aims to contribute to a better understanding of discourse and interaction in storytelling events. Direct reported speech, I find, counts as a reflexive resource not only… read more

Oropeza-Escobar, Minerva 2011 Framing and collaboration in storytelling events: Forgetfulness, reflexivity and word search Reframing framing: Interaction and the constitution of culture and society, Takanashi, Hiroko and Joseph Sung-Yul Park (eds.), pp. 213–230 | Article

The collaborative character of discourse has been studied for different activities and linguistic levels. The present article discusses the relevance of this perspective to a better understanding of storytelling events. The focus is on metadiscursive interactions that result from the teller’s… read more

Oropeza-Escobar, Minerva 2007 Discourse, authority and mediation in an ethnographic encounter in Eastern Mexico Pragmatics 17:3, pp. 439–460 | Article

Although the discursive construction of authority has been largely investigated for different kinds of interaction and settings, studies concerned with authority in ethnographic encounters are scarce. In the present article, I demonstrate that in this kind of encounters the mediational character… read more