Jeriel Melgares
List of John Benjamins publications in which Jeriel Melgares is involved.
Articles
2018 Chapter 9. “El vos nuestro es, ¡Ey vos, chigüín!”: Honduran vos as a marker of national identity Contemporary Trends in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics: Selected papers from the Hispanic Linguistic Symposium 2015, MacDonald, Jonathan E. (ed.), pp. 191–210 | Chapter
This qualitative study takes the analysis of Honduran voseo beyond the examination of ‘who’ uses vos to include answers to ‘why’ speakers use vos the way they do. To that end, thirty informants shared their attitudes toward address forms through semi-directed interviews from which three themes… read more
2018 Uncivil Twitter: A sociopragmatic analysis Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 6:1, pp. 26–57 | Article
Using four tweets by Steven Salaita about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that resulted in the retraction of his academic job offer in September 2014 as our case study, we investigate the role of Twitter in the shaping and reception of the controversial messages. Our analysis combines Gricean… read more