Carmen Maíz-Arévalo
List of John Benjamins publications in which Carmen Maíz-Arévalo is involved.
Online Resource
E‑ISSN 1877‑9646
Title
Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age: Recent advances and explorations
Edited by Julia Lavid-López, Carmen Maíz-Arévalo and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla
Corpus-based contrastive and translation research are areas that keep evolving in the digital age, as the range of new corpus resources and tools expands, opening up to different approaches and application contexts. The current book contains a selection of papers which focus on corpora and… read more[Benjamins Translation Library, 158] 2021. vi, 345 pp.
2025 “We are completely stunned”: Corrective facework in hosts’ responses to Airbnb reviews with negative valence Conflict Talk in Spanish Digital Interactions, Fernández-Amaya, Lucía (ed.), pp. 44–71 | Article
The relationship between service providers and guests has changed due to online platforms like Airbnb, which allow for a more direct contact between them. Although most responses to guests’ reviews tend to be positive and even include relational work strategies (Bridges and Vásquez 2018;… read more
2025 Striking the balance between friendliness and professionality: Pragmatic uses and functions of emoji by Spanish MPs on Twitter/X bios Beyond Words: Pragmatic approaches to visual discourses in digital interactions, Sampietro, Agnese and Carmen Pérez-Sabater (eds.), pp. 241–266 | Article
Research shows that emoji are not only used to express emotions but also to enhance the illocutionary force of messages or build social rapport (Pérez-Sabater 2019; Sampietro 2019; Alfano et al. 2021). The interaction between text content and emoji can influence perceptions of both the message… read more
2024 A protocol for the annotation of evaluative stance and metaphor across four discourse genres Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 37:2, pp. 486–517 | Article
The present article contributes to research on evaluation by addressing two complementary objectives: first, we present a protocol for the identification and annotation of evaluation in English discourse and, second, we show the results of the implementation of the protocol in the annotation of… read more
2023 Interpreting Covid-related memes: The role of inferential strategies and context accessibility The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts, Linares Bernabéu, Esther (ed.), pp. 6–31 | Chapter
One of the sources of relief, entertainment and socialisation during the Covid pandemic lockdown was the massive exchange of memes on social media and messaging applications. The objective of this chapter is to analyse and categorise 150 Peninsular Spanish memes collected from different… read more
2021 Chapter 6. Humour and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile status Approaches to Internet Pragmatics: Theory and practice, Xie, Chaoqun, Francisco Yus and Hartmut Haberland (eds.), pp. 175–206 | Chapter
Self-presentation encompasses a set of strategies through which individuals communicate an image of themselves to others. Self-presentation has been widely studied both in face-to-face communication and online. Most online research, however, has focused on social networking sites, blogs,… read more
2021 When humour backfires: How do WhatsApp users respond to humorous profile statuses as a self-presentation strategy? Pragmatics, Humour and the Internet, Yus, Francisco (ed.), pp. 111–130 | Article
The present study stems from previous work on self-presentation in WhatsApp users’ profile status. However, its main goal is to gauge other users’ reactions to WhatsApp “humorous” statuses. In other words, do other users find statuses intended as humorous “funny”? To this purpose, the… read more
2020 Chapter 3. “Pero… y las caritas esas, ¿cómo se ponen?”: Age effects on Facebook compliments in Peninsular Spanish Complimenting Behavior and (Self-)Praise across Social Media: New contexts and new insights, Placencia, María Elena and Zohreh R. Eslami (eds.), pp. 73–98 | Chapter
Using a netnographic approach, the present study aims to find out whether age plays a role in the realization of the speech act of complimenting as performed by a Facebook community of Peninsular Spanish users. To that purpose, a corpus of a hundred compliments was collected. Fifty of these… read more
2014 “I’m sorry I don’t agree with you”: Can we teach nonnative students pragmatic competence when expressing disagreement? Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 27:2, pp. 433–453 | Article
Disagreement has been relatively less studied than other speech acts such as requests or compliments, especially as produced by nonnative speakers of English. The present study aims to analyze the production of disagreement by an international group of Master students who use English as lingua… read more
2005 The idiomatic expression of incoherent discourse: “can’t make head nor tail”: Cognitive and contrastive analysis in Latin and English Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 3, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 117–131 | Article
This paper analyses the idiomatic expression “can’t make head nor tail” both in Latin and English. The cognitive analysis of these expressions (syntactic variations and use of other body parts in English), their content (these expressions involve spatial and ontological metaphoric schemata to… read more