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  1. Generational shifts and emotional expression in emoji use by Peninsular Spanish WhatsApp users

    Article • September 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  2. The three “waves” of compliment and compliment response research

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  3. Spanish EFL learners’ use of contrastive linking adverbials across three CEFR levels and gender

    Article • Research in Corpus Linguistics, December 2025, Research in Corpus Linguistics

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  4. Email Pragmatics and Second Language Learners, edited by Maria Economidou-Kogetsidis, Milica Savić, and Nicola Halenko

    Article • Contrastive Pragmatics, November 2025, De Gruyter

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  5. Striking the balance between friendliness and professionality

    Article • Internet Pragmatics, July 2025, John Benjamins

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  6. “I take hot showers so I can practice burning in hell” A corpus analytical study of Tinder female profiles in the UK

    Article • Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, July 2024, Publicaciones Universidad de Alicante

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  7. “We are completely stunned”

    Article • Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, July 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  8. Sharing is caring: An ethnographic approach to Spanish WhatsApp groups

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, June 2024, Elsevier

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  9. A protocol for the annotation of evaluative stance and metaphor across four discourse genres

    Article • Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, March 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo, Dr Laura Hidalgo-Downing, Julia Williams, Dr Paula Pérez-Sobrino

  10. “I hear you like bad girls? I’m bad at everything”: a British-Spanish cross-cultural analysis of humour as a self-presentation strategy in Tinder profiles

    Article • European Journal of Humour Research, September 2023, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  11. Francisco Yus, Smartphone communication: Interactions in the app ecosystem (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture). London: Routledge, 2022. Pp. xii + 318. ISBN 9781032060668.

    Article • English Language and Linguistics, May 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  12. Interpreting Covid-related memes

    Article • May 2023, John Benjamins

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  13. Testing Conversational Implicature in the TOEIC Examination. Investigando la Implicatura Conversacional en el Examen de TOEIC

    Article • El Guiniguada, July 2022, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  14. Review of Breeze, Ruth and Carmen Llamas Saíz (eds.). 2020. Metaphor in political conflict. Populism and discourse. Navarra: Ediciones Universidad de Navarra (EUNSA). ISBN 978-84-313-3467-3

    Article • Russian Journal of Linguistics, December 2021, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  15. Corpora in Translation and Contrastive Research in the Digital Age

    Article • November 2021, John Benjamins

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo, Professor Julia Lavid

  16. “Blowing our own trumpet”: Self-praise in Peninsular Spanish face-to-face communication

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  17. Chapter 6. Humour and self-presentation on WhatsApp profile status

    Article • April 2021, John Benjamins

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  18. Developing Intercultural Communicative Competence: A Cornerstone in EMI in-service Training Programmes in Higher Education

    Article • Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, January 2021, Publicaciones Universidad de Alicante

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  19. Review of Fuster-Márquez, Miguel, José Santaemilia, Carmen Gregori-Signes and Paula Rodríguez-Abruñeiras eds. 2021. Exploring Discourse and Ideology through Corpora. Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN: 978-3-0343-3969-8. https://doi.org/10.3726/b17868

    Article • Research in Corpus Linguistics, January 2021, Research in Corpus Linguistics

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  20. Chapter 3. “Pero… y las caritas esas, ¿cómo se ponen?”

    Article • December 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  21. When humour backfires

    Article • Internet Pragmatics, July 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  22. Sharifian, Farzad. 2017. Cultural Linguistics. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 171 pp., Paperback ISBN 978-90-272-0412-7. Price Hb EUR 95

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, December 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  23. 'Solo un poquito'. El uso y funciones del diminutivo en español peninsular en dos grupos de Facebook

    Article • Círculo de lingüística aplicada a la comunicación, February 2018, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  24. EMOTIONAL SELF-PRESENTATION ON WHATSAPP: ANALYSIS OF THE PROFILE STATUS

    Article • Russian Journal of Linguistics, January 2018, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  25. ‘Small talk is not cheap’: phatic computer-mediated communication in intercultural classes

    Article • Computer Assisted Language Learning, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  26. Expressive Speech Acts in Educational e-chats

    Article • Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  27. Zufferey, Sandrine: Acquiring pragmatics. Social and cognitive perspectives

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, January 2017, De Gruyter

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  28. Review of Wortham & Reyes (2015): Discourse analysis beyond the speech event

    Article • Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, August 2016, John Benjamins

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  29. Typographic Alteration in Formal Computer-mediated Communication

    Article • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, December 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  30. An Analysis of Expressive Speech Acts in Online Task-oriented Interaction by University Students

    Article • Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, February 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  31. Jocular mockery in computer-mediated communication: English and Spanish Facebook

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  32. Teaching non-native students pragmatic competence when expressing disagreement

    Article • Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, December 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  33. Expressing disagreement in English as a lingua franca: Whose pragmatic rules?

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  34. “Hope This Helps!” An Analysis of Expressive Speech Acts in Online Task-Oriented Interaction by University Students

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  35. ‘You look terrific!’ Social evaluation and relationships in online compliments

    Article • Discourse Studies, December 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  36. Students' response to CLIL in tertiary education: the Case of Business administration and economics at Complutense University

    Article • Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, July 2013, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  37. “Just click ‘Like”’: Computer-mediated responses to Spanish compliments

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, May 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  38. “Was that a compliment?” Implicit compliments in English and Spanish

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, June 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  39. Gender-based differences on Spanish conversational exchanges: The role of the follow-up move

    Article • Discourse Studies, December 2011, SAGE Publications

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo

  40. The idiomatic expression of incoherent discourse: “can’t make head nor tail”

    Article • Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, October 2005, John Benjamins

    Dr Carmen Maíz-Arévalo