Camilla Vásquez
List of John Benjamins publications in which Camilla Vásquez is involved.
2026 Stand-up comedians’ performed narratives about offended audiences Narrative Inquiry: Online-First Articles | Article
Contributing to recent work on reflexivity and metapragmatics in stand-up comedy as well as recent studies of offensive humor, this article places narratives at the center of inquiry, by focusing on four popular anglophone stand-up comedians’ performed stories about audiences that were offended… read more
2025 “Then we’re just two dudes driving around”: Stand-up comedians’ exploitation of relational ambiguity in the Uber/Lyft chronotope Journal of Language and Pop Culture 1:2, pp. 226–247 | Article
App-mediated ride sharing services like Uber and Lyft represent a relatively new chronotope that shapes participants’ identities and relationships through specific space and time configurations. Ridesharing services such as these blur the boundaries between what is public/private,… read more
2024 Revisiting adaptability: Reviews of Airbnb’s online experiences Structures in Discourse: Interaction, adaptability, and pragmatic functions, Gill, Martin, Aino Malmivirta and Brita Wårvik (eds.), pp. 156–175 | Chapter
Recognized for their influence on consumer decision-making, online consumer reviews have attracted the attention of scholars from marketing, consumer studies and tourism, as well as discourse studies. Taking Virtanen’s (2017) study of Amazon book reviews as our point of departure, this study… read more
2023 “Jerry was a terrific host!” “You were a brilliant guest!”: Reciprocal compliments on Airbnb Pragmatics and Society 14:1, pp. 117–142 | Article
Expanding the research investigating compliments in CMC genres, this study explores reciprocal compliments from consumers and service-providers on Airbnb, a major tourism platform. Specifically, the study examines distribution of compliments in both guest reviews of Online Experiences (a virtual… read more
2022 Exploring local meaning-making resources The Pragmatics of Internet Memes, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 122–144 | Chapter
This study examines various combinations of visual and textual meaningmaking resources in a popular Chinese meme. The meme features an exogenous image – the grinning facial expression of a U.S. wrestler, D’Angelo Dinero – that has been recontextualized into numerous other visual texts, to create… read more
2020 Exploring local meaning-making resources: A case study of a popular Chinese internet meme ( biaoqingbao ) The Pragmatics of Internet Memes, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 260–282 | Article
This study examines various combinations of visual and textual meaning-making resources in a popular Chinese meme. The meme features an exogenous image – the grinning facial expression of a U.S. wrestler, D’Angelo Dinero – that has been recontextualized into numerous other visual texts, to… read more
2019 “My life has changed forever!”: Narrative identities in parodies of Amazon reviews Storytelling in the Digital World, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 9–26 | Chapter
New parodic genres have emerged across diverse forms of digital media. Sometimes these parodies take the form of mock “narratives of personal experience,” with authors drawing on a range of discursive resources to perform particular identities and in doing so, to create texts written from… read more
2017 “My life has changed forever!”: Narrative identities in parodies of Amazon reviews Storytelling in the Digital Age: New challenges, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 217–234 | Article
New parodic genres have emerged across diverse forms of digital media. Sometimes these parodies take the form of mock “narratives of personal experience,” with authors drawing on a range of discursive resources to perform particular identities and in doing so, to create texts written from… read more
2012 Narrativity and involvement in online consumer reviews: The case of TripAdvisor Narrative Inquiry 22:1, pp. 105–121 | Article
Drawing on recent work on digital narratives of personal experience in online genres such as email, social networking sites, and blogs, the present study explores narrative features in 100 online consumer reviews of hotels. Focusing on negative reviews, or “Rants,” from popular consumer travel… read more
2009 Examining the role of face work in a workplace complaint narrative Narrative Inquiry 19:2, pp. 259–279 | Article
In recent years, interest in examining the diverse functions and features of oral narratives told in workplace contexts has grown alongside the body of research investigating the role of language in enacting politeness in the workplace. Yet, to date, there has been little integration of these two… read more