Gabrina Pounds
List of John Benjamins publications in which Gabrina Pounds is involved.
2021 Presupposed evaluation in environmental argumentative discourse Functions of Language 28:1, pp. 27–54 | Article
Expressions of evaluation in discourse have been studied from a number of different perspectives, all highlighting the fact that evaluation may be expressed cumulatively, through a combination of different linguistic means, and pragmatically, at various levels of implicitness, which often defy… read more
2021 Rapport-building in suspects’ police interviews: The role of empathy and face Police Interviews: Communication challenges and solutions, Filipović, Luna (ed.), pp. 95–120 | Chapter
Both research and police guidelines acknowledge the value of rapport-building in police interview with suspects (ISs) and provide some insight into how ‘rapport’ may be defined and built in this context. Rapport is, however, difficult to operationalise and assess in practice, other than for the… read more
2019 Rapport-building in suspects’ police interviews: The role of empathy and face Police interviews: Communication challenges and solutions, Filipović, Luna (ed.), pp. 95–121 | Article
Both research and police guidelines acknowledge the value of rapport-building in police interview with suspects (ISs) and provide some insight into how ‘rapport’ may be defined and built in this context. Rapport is, however, difficult to operationalise and assess in practice, other than for the… read more
2008 The expression of emotion in Italian and English fairy tales Languages and Cultures in Contrast and Comparison, Gómez González, María de los Ángeles, J. Lachlan Mackenzie and Elsa M. González Álvarez (eds.), pp. 193–219 | Article
Previous studies by educationalists and psychologists have shown that fairy tales appear to encode emotive content in such a way that may facilitate aspects of children’s emotive development. This chapter deals with the representation of emotion in these tales and explores whether it varies across… read more
2005 Writer’s argumentative attitude: A contrastive analysis of ‘Letters to the Editor’ in English and Italian Pragmatics 15:1, pp. 49–88 | Article
This article deals with those aspects of language that can be seen to carry out a primarily “interactional function” in that they are used to “establish and maintain social relationships” (Brown and Yule 1983: 2 and 3). Such aspects have been variously referred to as performing an “expressive”… read more