Rosina Márquez Reiter
List of John Benjamins publications in which Rosina Márquez Reiter is involved.
Journals
ISSN 1018-2101 | E‑ISSN 2406‑4238
The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse
Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter
This volume examines the way participants orient to aspects of their interactions with others as interpersonally sensitive across an array of languages and contemporary institutional settings. The individual chapters address interactional episodes where the participants signal that elements of the… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 96] 2018. v, 194 pp.
(Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings
Edited by Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen and Rosina Márquez Reiter
Special issue of Pragmatics and Society 7:4 (2016) v, 186 pp.
Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish
Edited by Rosina Márquez Reiter and María Elena Placencia
Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish provides the reader with a representative spectrum of current research in the most dynamic areas of the pragmatics of Spanish. It brings together a collection of academic essays written by well-established as well as emerging voices in Hispanic pragmatics. read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 123] 2004. xvi, 381 pp.
Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay: A contrastive study of requests and apologies
Rosina Márquez Reiter
The first well-researched contrastive pragmatic analysis of requests and apologies in British English and Uruguayan Spanish. It takes the form of a cross-cultural corpus-based analysis using male and female native speakers of each language and systematically alternating the same social variables in… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 83] 2000. xviii, 225 pp.
2025 (Un)intended offence: Speaker meaning and discursive scales in the negotiation of offensive humour ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 8–38 | Article
A frequent response to someone taking offence in response to conversational humour is to claim the utterances in question were ‘not serious’, ‘taken out of context’, or that any offence taken was ‘unintended’. Yet in some instances such claims are construed as inadequate or irrelevant. In this… read more
2025 Ambulant vendors’ living labour on Copacabana beach Language, Culture and Society 7:1, pp. 28–67 | Article
This article uses video-ethnography to offer the first examination of the working practices of ambulant vendors on Copacabana Beach in actual time. It focuses on how these workers enact agency as they navigate the limiting physical and social boundaries of the beach to earn a living. It does… read more
2022 Sociality and moral conflicts: Migrant stories of relational vulnerability Pragmatics and Society 13:1, pp. 1–21 | Article
This paper explores how understandings of sociality influence the way members of two different social groups discursively animate moral conflicts. It examines how moral conflicts are constructed in life-story interviews by Chinese and Latin American migrants as they reflect on patterns of… read more
2020 A pragmatics of intimacy Internet Pragmatics 3:1, pp. 1–33 | Article
This study examines the ways in which multiple modern communication technologies facilitate, across time and space, the maintenance of a close interpersonal relationship between two best friends. The analysis, which focuses mainly on the openings and closings of the different types of… read more
2020 Exploring the moral compass: Denunciations in a Facebook carpool group (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 37–65 | Chapter
With the advent of the internet and social media, car and vanpooling have become easily available alternatives to public transport in many parts of the world. This study draws on publicly available data from a Facebook car and vanpooling group used by Slovenian cross-border commuters to make… read more
2019 Chapter 5. Navigating commercial constraints in a service call Technology Mediated Service Encounters, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar, Lucía Fernández-Amaya and María de la O Hernández-López (eds.), pp. 121–144 | Chapter
In this chapter I examine a call from a telephone agent to a client in which the former tries to obtain a sale irrespective of the client’s interest in the product and, the latter seizes this opportunity to obtain access to a product that she is not entitled to. A central aspect of the organization… read more
2018 Introduction The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.), pp. 1–5 | Article
2018 Interviews as sites of ideological work Spanish in Context 15:1, pp. 54–76 | Article
This paper maintains that the interview, understood as an interactionally achieved social practice, can be a locus for ideological work. It shows how a differentiated understanding of stance, alignment and the discourse identities that the participants assume and leave in interaction, can bring… read more
2018 Exploring the moral compass: Denunciations in a Facebook carpool group (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 242–271 | Article
With the advent of the internet and social media, car and vanpooling have become easily available alternatives to public transport in many parts of the world. This paper draws on publicly available data from a Facebook car and vanpooling group used by Slovenian cross-border commuters to make… read more
2018 Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters: Face and identity implications The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.), pp. 7–33 | Article
This paper analyses video recorded interactions between police officers and drivers in traffic stops in Russia. The interactions were recorded via cameras installed on the drivers’ car dashboards, and subsequently uploaded to YouTube; a practice to which over one million Russian motorists have… read more
2018 When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.), pp. 135–160 | Article
This paper examines interpersonally sensitive exchanges in two calls for information to the call centre of a public transport company. In order to provide relevant information and facilitate sequence progressivity, the agents need to go through specific steps. Although this is typical of… read more
2016 The (co-) construction of potentially interpersonally sensitive activities across languages and institutional contexts (Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.), pp. 507–511 | Article
2016 Review of Terkourafi (2015): Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness Dementia-compromised language conflict and aggression, Davis, Boyd (ed.), p. | Review
2016 Requests and counters in Russian traffic police officer-citizen encounters: Face and identity implications (Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.), pp. 512–539 | Article
This paper analyses video recorded interactions between police officers and drivers in traffic stops in Russia. The interactions were recorded via cameras installed on the drivers’ car dashboards, and subsequently uploaded to YouTube; a practice to which over one million Russian motorists have… read more
2016 When routine calls for information become interpersonally sensitive (Co-)Constructing Interpersonally Sensitive Activities Across Institutional Settings, Mosegaard Hansen, Maj-Britt and Rosina Márquez Reiter (eds.), pp. 638–663 | Article
This paper examines interpersonally sensitive exchanges in two calls for information to the call centre of a public transport company. In order to provide relevant information and facilitate sequence progressivity, the agents need to go through specific steps. Although this is typical of… read more
2013 Fabricated ignorance: The search for good value for money Pragmatics 23:4, pp. 661–684 | Article
In this article I examine a negotiating strategy observed in telephone calls made by (prospective) clients to the Latin American call centre operation of a multinational company specialised in holiday time-shares. Through this strategy, which I have termed ‘fabricated ignorance’, the (prospective)… read more
2004 7. Displaying closeness and respectful distance in Montevidean and Quiteño service encounters Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish, Márquez Reiter, Rosina and María Elena Placencia (eds.), pp. 121–156 | Chapter
2004 2. The pragmatics of Spanish beyond Spain Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish, Márquez Reiter, Rosina and María Elena Placencia (eds.), pp. 15–30 | Chapter
2003
Pragmatic variation in Spanish:
External request modifications in Peninsular and Uruguayan Spanish
A Romance Perspective on Language Knowledge and Use: Selected papers from the 31st Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Chicago, 19–22 April 2001, Núñez-Cedeño, Rafael, Luis López and Richard Cameron (eds.), pp. 167–180 | Article
2002 A contrastive study of conventional indirectness in Spanish: Evidence from Peninsular and Uruguayan Spanish Pragmatics 12:2, pp. 135–151 | Article
This article examines the results of a contrastive empirical study of conventional indirect requests in Peninsular and Uruguayan Spanish. The results reveal pragmatic similarities at the level of the linguistic encoding of utterances with both, Peninsular and Uruguayan Spanish speakers showing a… read more