Ana Cristina Ostermann
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ana Cristina Ostermann is involved.
Articles
2023 Chapter 3. Responding to polar questions in Brazilian Portuguese: É -responses and repeats Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts, Bolden, Galina B., John Heritage and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 76–108 | Chapter
This paper explores the division of labor between particle and repetitional responses to polar questions in Brazilian Portuguese. We examine a response form that occurs both as a particle and as a verb repeat – the é-response – and compare its uses to repeat responses consisting of elements… read more
2021 Chapter 9. OKAY in health helpline calls in Brazil: Managing alignment and progressivity OKAY across Languages: Toward a comparative approach to its use in talk-in-interaction, Betz, Emma, Arnulf Deppermann, Lorenza Mondada and Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.), pp. 269–299 | Chapter
This chapter investigates phone calls to a health helpline in Brazilian Portuguese, focusing on how call-takers employ OKAY as a resource in managing the participants’ mutual alignment and the progression of activities during the calls. Call-takers make use of OKAY in transitioning between main… read more
2012 Gender and professional identity in three institutional settings in Brazil: The case of responses to assessment turns The interplay between professional identities and age, gender and ethnicity, Van De Mieroop, Dorien and Jonathan Clifton (eds.), pp. 203–230 | Article
The current study looks at the construction of professional identity and its relations with gender, by analyzing the discursive practices of a unique set of contrasting groups, i.e. three parallel institutions created to address violence against women in Brazil: An all female police station and… read more