Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mihaela-Viorica Constantinescu is involved.

Journal

Language and Dialogue

Edited by Edda Weigand

ISSN 2210-4119 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4127

Book series

Dialogue Studies

Edited by Edda Weigand

ISSN 1875-1792

Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica 2025 Having a licence for offensive humour in stand-up comedy? Exploring the case of Romanian comedians performing in the United Kingdom ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 93–120 | Article

From a sociopragmatic approach, this article examines potentially offensive remarks in stand-up comedy performances by Romanian origin comedians acting in the United Kingdom. The analysis highlights the sociocultural allowances that enable comedians to engage in a type of verbal behaviour that… read more

Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica 2023 Ritual and modern “politeness” in the Romanian Principalities during the Phanariot period Politeness in and across Historical Europe, Paternoster, Annick, Gudrun Held and Dániel Z. Kádár (eds.), pp. 124–142 | Article

The paper focusses on ritual “politeness” in the eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century Romanian Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia from a historical sociopragmatic perspective. The analysis of ceremonial literature and memoirs aims to highlight the instrumental role that the performance… read more

Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica 2020 Review of Tsakona & Chovanec (2018): The Dynamics of Interactional Humor. Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters Language and Dialogue 10:2, pp. 290–295 | Review

Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica 2018 A perspective on “impoliteness” in early modern Romanian court and diplomatic interactions Journal of Historical Pragmatics 19:1, pp. 92–121 | Article

The paper focuses on impoliteness dealt with from a historical pragmatics perspective (Jucker [ed.] 1995; Culpeper and Kádár [eds] 2010; Jucker and Taavitsainen [eds] 2010; etc.). The approach adopted in this study favours a first-order im/politeness view (Watts et al. [eds] 1992; Eelen 2001;… read more

Constantinescu, Mihaela-Viorica 2014 Evidential and epistemic strategies in Romanian parliamentary debates Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue, Zuczkowski, Andrzej (ed.), pp. 132–148 | Article

The paper presents some evidential and epistemic strategies that appear frequently in old and present-day Romanian parliamentary debates. By evidential and epistemic strategy we mean the manipulation of evidential and epistemic markers, either grammaticalized or pragmatic, in order to achieve… read more