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2020

Journal Article

“Hey BCC this is Australia and we speak and read English”: Monolingualism and othering in relation to linguistic diversity

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2020). “Hey BCC this is Australia and we speak and read English”: Monolingualism and othering in relation to linguistic diversity. Intercultural Pragmatics, 17 (5), 577-603. doi: 10.1515/ip-2020-5003

“Hey BCC this is Australia and we speak and read English”: Monolingualism and othering in relation to linguistic diversity

2020

Conference Publication

“Should I bring my own snowboard or will rentals be available?”: A collective co-construction of humour, a ‘jester’ identity and exclusion of non-jokers

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2020). “Should I bring my own snowboard or will rentals be available?”: A collective co-construction of humour, a ‘jester’ identity and exclusion of non-jokers. Australian Humour Studies Network Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 5-7 February 2020.

“Should I bring my own snowboard or will rentals be available?”: A collective co-construction of humour, a ‘jester’ identity and exclusion of non-jokers

2020

Book Chapter

“Ya bloody drongo!!!”: Impoliteness as situated moral judgement on Facebook

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2020). “Ya bloody drongo!!!”: Impoliteness as situated moral judgement on Facebook. (Im)politeness and moral order in online interactions. (pp. 67-97) edited by Chaoqun Xie. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/bct.107.ip.00013.sin

“Ya bloody drongo!!!”: Impoliteness as situated moral judgement on Facebook

2019

Journal Article

Juggling identities in interviews: the metapragmatics of ‘doing humour’

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). Juggling identities in interviews: the metapragmatics of ‘doing humour’. Journal of Pragmatics, 152, 216-227. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.08.005

Juggling identities in interviews: the metapragmatics of ‘doing humour’

2019

Journal Article

The interplay between humour and identity construction: From humorous identities to identities constructed through humorous practices

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). The interplay between humour and identity construction: From humorous identities to identities constructed through humorous practices. Journal of Pragmatics, 152, 127-131. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2019.07.005

The interplay between humour and identity construction: From humorous identities to identities constructed through humorous practices

2019

Book

Conversational humour and (im)politeness: a pragmatic analysis of social interaction

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). Conversational humour and (im)politeness: a pragmatic analysis of social interaction. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/thr.8

Conversational humour and (im)politeness: a pragmatic analysis of social interaction

2019

Conference Publication

The metapragmatics of ‘familiarity’ in interactional humour

Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). The metapragmatics of ‘familiarity’ in interactional humour. Australian Humour Studies Network conference, Melbourne, Australia, 6-8 February 2019.

The metapragmatics of ‘familiarity’ in interactional humour

2019

Conference Publication

“Hey […] this is Australia and we speak and read English”: an analysis of impoliteness in relation to linguistic diversity on a local government’s Facebook page

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). “Hey […] this is Australia and we speak and read English”: an analysis of impoliteness in relation to linguistic diversity on a local government’s Facebook page. 16th International Pragmatics Conference, Hong Kong, 9-14 June 2019.

“Hey […] this is Australia and we speak and read English”: an analysis of impoliteness in relation to linguistic diversity on a local government’s Facebook page

2019

Book Chapter

Offence and conflict talk

Haugh, Michael and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). Offence and conflict talk. The Routledge handbook of language in conflict. (pp. 196-214) edited by Matthew Evans, Lesley Jeffries and Jim O’Driscoll. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429058011-12

Offence and conflict talk

2018

Journal Article

"Ya bloody drongo!!!" Impoliteness as situated moral judgement on Facebook

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). "Ya bloody drongo!!!" Impoliteness as situated moral judgement on Facebook. Internet Pragmatics, 1 (2), 271-302. doi: 10.1075/ip.00013.sin

"Ya bloody drongo!!!" Impoliteness as situated moral judgement on Facebook

2018

Journal Article

Accusations and interpersonal conflict in televised multi-party interactions amongst speakers of (Argentinian and Peninsular) Spanish

Haugh, Michael and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). Accusations and interpersonal conflict in televised multi-party interactions amongst speakers of (Argentinian and Peninsular) Spanish. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 6 (2), 248-270. doi: 10.1075/jlac.00012.hau

Accusations and interpersonal conflict in televised multi-party interactions amongst speakers of (Argentinian and Peninsular) Spanish

2018

Conference Publication

“I wouldn’t publicly make a big song and dance about it”: Resisting (un)desirable identities

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). “I wouldn’t publicly make a big song and dance about it”: Resisting (un)desirable identities. Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, Auckland, New Zealand, 27-30 June 2018.

“I wouldn’t publicly make a big song and dance about it”: Resisting (un)desirable identities

2018

Conference Publication

Doing ‘being ordinary’ and performing the real in a Big Brother house

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). Doing ‘being ordinary’ and performing the real in a Big Brother house. AMPRA-4, Albany, NY, United States, 1-3 November 2018.

Doing ‘being ordinary’ and performing the real in a Big Brother house

2018

Conference Publication

Variability in group identity construction in reality television discourse

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). Variability in group identity construction in reality television discourse. 8th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics & Communication, Nicosia, Cyprus, 8-10 June 2018.

Variability in group identity construction in reality television discourse

2018

Conference Publication

“It’s not nice […] you’re just taking the piss out of me”: Failed humour and differences in its evaluation by (non-)participants

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). “It’s not nice […] you’re just taking the piss out of me”: Failed humour and differences in its evaluation by (non-)participants. 24th Conference of the Australasian Humour Studies Network (AHSN), Cairns Australia, 2-4- February 2018.

“It’s not nice […] you’re just taking the piss out of me”: Failed humour and differences in its evaluation by (non-)participants

2017

Journal Article

Variability in group identity construction: a case study of the Australian and British Big Brother houses

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). Variability in group identity construction: a case study of the Australian and British Big Brother houses. Discourse, Context and Media, 20, 70-82. doi: 10.1016/j.dcm.2017.09.006

Variability in group identity construction: a case study of the Australian and British Big Brother houses

2017

Journal Article

"It's just a bit of cultural [...] lost in translation": Australian and British intracultural and intercultural metapragmatic evaluations of jocularity

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). "It's just a bit of cultural [...] lost in translation": Australian and British intracultural and intercultural metapragmatic evaluations of jocularity. Lingua, 197, 50-67. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2017.03.004

"It's just a bit of cultural [...] lost in translation": Australian and British intracultural and intercultural metapragmatic evaluations of jocularity

2017

Journal Article

What makes teasing impolite in Australian and British English? “Step[ping] over those lines […] you shouldn’t be crossing”

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). What makes teasing impolite in Australian and British English? “Step[ping] over those lines […] you shouldn’t be crossing”. Journal of Politeness Research, 13 (2), 175-207. doi: 10.1515/pr-2015-0034

What makes teasing impolite in Australian and British English? “Step[ping] over those lines […] you shouldn’t be crossing”

2017

Journal Article

Approaching conversational humour culturally: a survey of the emerging area of investigation

Sinkeviciute, Valeria and Dynel, Marta (2017). Approaching conversational humour culturally: a survey of the emerging area of investigation. Language & Communication, 55, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.langcom.2016.12.001

Approaching conversational humour culturally: a survey of the emerging area of investigation

2017

Journal Article

Funniness and “the preferred reaction” to jocularity in Australian and British English: an analysis of interviewees' metapragmatic comments

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). Funniness and “the preferred reaction” to jocularity in Australian and British English: an analysis of interviewees' metapragmatic comments. Language & Communication, 55, 41-54. doi: 10.1016/j.langcom.2016.06.004

Funniness and “the preferred reaction” to jocularity in Australian and British English: an analysis of interviewees' metapragmatic comments