Associate Professor of English
Phone: 704.687.2126
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Educationa
- University of Valencia , Valencia , Spain
- Ph.D. in Anglo-Germanic Philology, 1991
- M.A. in Anglo-Germanic Philology, 1986
- B.A. in Anglo-Germanic Philology, 1985
Areas of Interest
Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Acquisition, English for Specific Purposes
Selected Publications and Presentations – from 2005
Edited books
Macaulay, M. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (forthcoming). Pragmatics and context. Toronto, CA: Antares.
Garcés-Conejos, P et al (eds.) (2007) Studies in Intercultural, cognitive and social pragmatics. Cambridge , UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Papers in peer reviewed journals
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P & Lorenzo-Dus, N. (under consideration). “On-line community organizing: Rapport and directness. A case study from the Obama presidential campaign”.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2009) “Polarized audiences, polarizing news: analysis of impoliteness in The O'Reilly Factor, the number one show on cable news television in the USA”. International Review of Pragmatics 1 (2).
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2009) “Impoliteness and identity in the American news media: the culture wars”. Journal of Politeness Research 5: 273-304..
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Fortanet-Gomez, I. (2008) “The presentation of self in résumés: An intercultural approach”, English for Specific Purposes across Cultures 5, 69-90.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2007). “Conference calls, the business meetings of the 21st century: a multi-layered approach to an emerging genre”, Quaderns de Filologia, 12: 57-76.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2006). “Interlanguage pragmatics: A response to Andrew Cohen’s “Strategies for learning and performing L2 speech acts”. Intercultural Pragmatics 3, 213-223.
Book chapters
Fortanet-Gomez, I. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (forthcoming) “Facework and criticism in referee reports”. In Beverly Lewin and Françoise Salager-Meyer (Eds.) The word and the sword. Criticism in the academy. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (forthcoming) “Who ‘we’ are: the construction of American corporate identity” In J.C. Palmer et al. English for professional and academic purposes. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (forthcoming). “Anonymity, identity construction, and political debate on YouTube”. Macaulay, M. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (Eds.) Pragmatics and context. Toronto, CA: Antares.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (forthcoming). “The YouTubification of politics, impoliteness and polarization”. In Rotimi Taiwo (ed.) Handbook of research on discourse behavior and digital communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2008). “Selling and gender: rapport building strategies used by American TV shopping networks’ hosts”. In J. Santaemilia & P. Bou-Franch (eds). Gender and sexual identities in transition: Cross-cultural perspectives. (pp. 144-179). Newcastle: UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2008). “Cortesía en las paginas web interactivas: el comercio electrónico” (Politeness in commercial web sites) In A. Briz-Gómez et al (eds.) Cortesía y conversación de lo escrito a lo oral. (pp. 468-488) University of Valencia Press – EDICE Publishings.
Plenary lectures
Impoliteness and polarization in the US: new and traditional media. IV EPICS international symposium, Pablo de Olavide University, Seville (Spain), March 2010.
L2 pragmatic competence: A case study from the academic community of practice. LXXIII South-Eastern Conference of Linguistics, Auburn University , April 29, 2006 .
Invited keynote presentations
A socio-cognitive approach to the teaching of listening in a L2. Seminar on linguistics. University Jaume I, Castellon (Spain) November 27, 2006 .
(with Bou- Franch, P.) Cortesía en la www: las páginas web interactivas. III Coloquio Internacional sobre cortesía (EDICE) Cortesía y conversación de lo escrito a lo oral. University of Valencia, Spain. November 22-25.
Listening in a Second Language: a pragmatic approach. University of South Carolina at Columbia. Linguistics Program Colloquium Series, March 17, 2006
Pragmatic Fluency in ESL. Invited presentation. ESL Symposium, North Carolina State , Raleigh, North Carolina. June 2-3, 2005.
Papers presented at international and national conferences
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2009). Relational work in e-service encounters: an intercultural, genre theoretical approach. Paper presented at the XI International Pragmatics Association Conference, contribution to the panel: (Im)politeness in Computer-mediated Communication (CMC) Organized by: Sage Graham Lambert and Miriam Locher Melbourne, Australia. July 13-17, 2009.
Lorenzo-Dus, N. Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. & Bou-Franch, P. (2009). “Am I detecting some sarcasm from you U????” Impoliteness in the responses to the Obama Reggaeton YouTube video. II Linguistic Impoliteness Conference. Lancaster, UK. June 30-July 2. Panel: Impoliteness in computer-mediated communication. Panel convenor: Miriam Locher (University of Basel)
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P.; Lorenzo-Dus, N. & Bou-Franch, P. (2009). Relational work in anonymous intercultural communication: a study of (dis)affiliation in YouTube. Symposium on Pragmatics and Intercultural Communication. London, UK. June 24-26.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2009). The YouTubification of politics. Southern Conference of Linguistics. New Orleans, April 8-10.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. , B. Davis, R. Lunsford and N. Pfingstag (2008) The Acquisition of Pragmatic Competence by Second Language Learners. Carolina TESOL. Charleston, SC. December 5-7.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2008) “Politics, impoliteness and YouTube: the dialectics of polarization” I North American Workshop on Pragmatics, Glendon College-York University, Toronto, Canada, October 3-5, 2008.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2008) “Polarized audiences, polarizing news: cable news programs in the USA’. IV International Symposium: New Developments in Linguistics Pragmatics. University of Lodz, Poland. May 15-18, 2008.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2008) (with Boyd Davis, Ron Lunsford and Nancy Pfingstag) “Exploring the chasm between words and meaning: The acquisition of pragmatic competence by second language writers” Panel presentation. Convention of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. New Orleans, April 2-5, 2008.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2007). “The “new” news in America: Emergence of a genre”. Paper presented at the X International Pragmatics Association Conference. Gothenburg, Sweden. July 8-13, 2007.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2007). “Impoliteness and identity in the American news media: the culture wars. Paper presented at the III International Symposium on Politeness”. University of Leeds, U.K. July 2-4 2007.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2007). “Titulares: estudio contrastivo”. (Newspaper headlines: a contrastive analysis) Paper presented at the XXI Conference on Spanish in the US & VI Spanish in contact with other languages. George Mason University & University of Maryland. March 15-18, 2007.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2006). “Selling and gender: Rapport establishing strategies used by American TV shopping networks’ hosts”. Paper presented at IV International Conference on Language and Gender- IGALA 4. November, 2006. University of Valencia (Spain).
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2006). “In the kingdom of political correctness impoliteness reigns supreme: An analysis of impoliteness in The O’Reilly Factor, with Bill O’Reilly, the number one show in cable television news in the USA”. Paper presented at the I Linguistic Impoliteness and Rudeness Conference, July 3-4 2006. University of Huddersfield, UK.
Bou-Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. (2005) “Openings and Closings in Spanish and English text-based CMC: A politeness Theoretical, community of practice approach”. Paper presented at the 16th Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. April 14-16, 2005.
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P. Bou-Franch, P. and Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2005). “The Teaching of Deference: CMC in Academic Settings”. Paper presented at the 16th conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. April 14-16, 2005
Courses taught
- ENGL 3132 Introduction to Contemporary American English
- ENGL 4165 Language and Culture
- ENGL 6163 Language Acquisition
- ENGL 6127 Seminar in Language Culture and Society
- ENGL 6165 Introduction to English for Specific Purposes
- ENGL 6161 Introduction to linguistics
- ENGL 6070 Language and Context
- ENGL 6164 Language and context
Professional Appointments
Faculty Appointments
UNC Charlotte since 2005
University of Seville 1992-2001
University of Valencia 1987-1991
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