Isabella Reichl
List of John Benjamins publications in which Isabella Reichl is involved.
Articles
2026 Fragile men and fishy arguments: Attributing and disputing offence in online interaction Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: Online-First Articles | Article
What happens when someone tells you that you are offended, even though you do not feel offended yourself? Contested attributions of offence provide an interesting testing ground for how one’s feelings of offence can diverge from how offence is displayed in interaction. In this paper, we consider… read more
2022 A delicate balance: Irony in the negotiation of refusals Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 10:2, pp. 288–314 | Article
This paper examines the factors that influence the outcome of exchanges containing refusals, focusing specifically on the role of irony. For this purpose, we analyse spontaneous conversations in English (SPICE-Ireland Corpus and Spoken BNC) within a discursive framework (Eelen 2001; Mills 2003;… read more
2018 Refusals in Early Modern English drama texts: New insights, new classification Pragmatics 28:2, pp. 253–270 | Article
Due to their largely non-routinized forms and their not being retrievable in computerised corpus searches, refusals have hitherto not been examined from a diachronic perspective. The present paper presents an inventory of refusal strategies in Early Modern English drama texts. Five comedies from… read more