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Valeria Sinkeviciute

Dr at The University of Queensland

Areas of expertise

  • - pragmatics of social interaction and discourse analysis
  • - conversational humour
  • - linguistic (im)politeness
  • - identity construction in face-to-face and online settings

Major works

She is the author of a number of papers on these topics in journals and edited volumes, and her recent monograph Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness: A Pragmatic Analysis of Social Interaction (John Benjamins).

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About me

Valeria Sinkeviciute is a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics in the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland, Australia. She teaches courses on culture, language and communication at both undergraduate and graduate levels. ****

Courses and Programs taught by Valeria Sinkeviciute