Minerva Oropeza-Escobar

List of John Benjamins publications for which Minerva Oropeza-Escobar plays a role.

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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Romance linguistics

Articles

By articulating the notions of reflexivity and participant roles in the context of direct reported speech, the present study aims to contribute to a better understanding of discourse and interaction in storytelling events. Direct reported speech, I find, counts as a reflexive resource not only… read more
Oropeza-Escobar, Minerva 2011 Framing and collaboration in storytelling events: Forgetfulness, reflexivity and word searchReframing framing: Interaction and the constitution of culture and society, Takanashi, Hiroko and Joseph Sung-Yul Park (eds.), pp. 213–230 | Article
The collaborative character of discourse has been studied for different activities and linguistic levels. The present article discusses the relevance of this perspective to a better understanding of storytelling events. The focus is on metadiscursive interactions that result from the teller’s… read more
Although the discursive construction of authority has been largely investigated for different kinds of interaction and settings, studies concerned with authority in ethnographic encounters are scarce. In the present article, I demonstrate that in this kind of encounters the mediational character… read more