Pilar Garces-Conejos Blitvich, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of English
Education
- 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, Socio-linguistics, Intercultural Communication, Second Language Acquisition, English for Specific Purposes
Currently, I am working on a research project on impoliteness in the American news media and I am colleting data for a longitudinal study of the acquisition of cognitive pragmatic competence by ESL students.
Selected Publications and Presentations
Edited books
Garcés-Conejos, P et al (eds.) (2007) Studies in Intercultural, cognitive and social pragmatics. Cambridge , UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 1-84718-209-7
Papers in peer reviewed journals
Garcés-Conejos, P. (2006). “Interlanguage pragmatics: A response to Andrew Cohen's “Strategies for learning and performing L2 speech acts” . Journal of Intercultural Pragmatics 3, 213-223.
Garcés-Conejos, P. & Bou Franch, P. (2004). “A Pragmatic Account of Listenership: Implications for Foreign Language Teaching”. RAEI 17 , 81-102.
Bou Franch, P. & Garcés-Conejos, P. (2003). “The Teaching of Linguistic Politeness”. IRAL 41 , 1-22 . (International Review of Applied Linguistics )
Book chapters
Garcés-Conejos, P. (in press). “Conference calls, the business meetings of the 21st century: a multi-layered approach to an emerging genre”. In P. Bou-Franch. et al. (eds.) Discurso, pragmática y sociedad. (pp. 11-29) University of Valencia Press.
Garcés-Conejos, P. (forthcoming). “Selling and gender: rapport building strategies used by American TV shopping networks' hosts”. In J. Santaemilia et al (eds). Cambridge : UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Garcés-Conejos, P. (with Bou-Franch, P.) (forthcoming). “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 . EDICE Publishing.
Garcés-Conejos, P. (2003). “Production, Interpretation and Garden Path Utterances in Advertising”. In C. Inchauralde & C. Florén (Eds.), Interaction and Cognition in Linguistics. (pp. 135-145). Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang.
Plenary lectures
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. 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. November 22-25. University of Valencia, Spain.
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 , June 2-3, 2005 . Raleigh , North Carolina
Papers presented at international conferences
Garcés-Conejos, 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, 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. 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, 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, 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, P. (2005) “Openings and Closings in Spanish and English text-based CMC: A politeness Theoretical, community of practice approach”. Paper presented at the 16 th conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, Indiana University , Bloomington , IN. April 14-16, 2005 .
Garcés-Conejos, P. Bou-Franch, P. and Lorenzo-Dus, N. (2005). “The Teaching of Deference: CMC in Academic Settings”. Paper presented at the 16 th 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
Faculty appointments
UNC Charlotte since 2005
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