María Isabel Hernández Toribio
List of John Benjamins publications in which María Isabel Hernández Toribio is involved.
Articles
2025 Pragmatics and cultural institutions: Typology of questions as strategies for online communication Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This article presents a pragmatic analysis of the different types of interrogatives used in the tweets posted on the official accounts of five Spanish cultural institutions (museums and film archives) and how these form part of these institutions’ strategies to foster interactivity in their… read more
2020 Chapter 11. Compliments in congratulatory tweets to Spanish Olympic athletes Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights, Placencia, María Elena and Zohreh R. Eslami (eds.), pp. 263–286 | Chapter
In this chapter we examine the form and function of compliments in congratulatory tweets sent to Spanish athletes during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games. The study is based on a corpus of 500 tweets taken from the profiles of 14 Spanish athletes (5–21 August 2016). Compliments play an important role… read more
2014 Actos de cortesía valorizadora (cumplidos y halagos) en el cine argentino actual Spanish in Context 11:1, pp. 97–116 | Article
En este artículo presentamos una revisión terminológica de los conceptos generalizados y vigentes en el ámbito hispano para aludir a un tipo de actos de habla (cumplidos y halagos) que, a pesar de ser utilizados indistintamente por muchos hablantes e incluso en los estudios de cortesía, presentan… read more