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Pilar Blitvich

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Professor of Linguistics, UNC Charlotte Co-Editor in Chief Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict and Routledge Focus on Im/Politeness series Co-founder & co-convenor ADDA (Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis) Conference Series

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Thank you! Both for your kind words and for the invite!

05.11.2025 19:32 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Get your Zooms ready, we are staring in 50 minutes 🎙️ 💻 👩‍🎓
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05.11.2025 13:10 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
This talk explores whether destigmatization and reintegration (Begner, 1987) after scandal and cancellation (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, 2024) are viable in the post-digital era (Blommaert, 2019). More specifically, it examines the metapragmatics of forgiveness, approached as a form of moral repair, that is, the re-establishment of a moral relationship between offender and offendee (Urban Walker, 2006; Griswold, 2007). The guiding question is as follows: is post-digital redemption feasible (Ambrose et al., 2012) given the persistence, searchability, shareability and visibility of digital content, all of which make forgetting structurally difficult (Bös & Kleinke, 2017)? This remains an understudied topic from a discursive-pragmatic perspective, despite its significance: social media platforms and their algorithms capitalize on conflict and moral transgression, amplifying negatively valenced behaviors as potent engagement tools in the attention economy (Nieborg & Poell, 2018). Forgiveness, by contrast, is a positively valenced practice, less algorithmically rewarded yet fundamental for understanding repair and coexistence in today’s highly polarized societies (Keohane, 2024).  

This talk explores whether destigmatization and reintegration (Begner, 1987) after scandal and cancellation (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, 2024) are viable in the post-digital era (Blommaert, 2019). More specifically, it examines the metapragmatics of forgiveness, approached as a form of moral repair, that is, the re-establishment of a moral relationship between offender and offendee (Urban Walker, 2006; Griswold, 2007). The guiding question is as follows: is post-digital redemption feasible (Ambrose et al., 2012) given the persistence, searchability, shareability and visibility of digital content, all of which make forgetting structurally difficult (Bös & Kleinke, 2017)? This remains an understudied topic from a discursive-pragmatic perspective, despite its significance: social media platforms and their algorithms capitalize on conflict and moral transgression, amplifying negatively valenced behaviors as potent engagement tools in the attention economy (Nieborg & Poell, 2018). Forgiveness, by contrast, is a positively valenced practice, less algorithmically rewarded yet fundamental for understanding repair and coexistence in today’s highly polarized societies (Keohane, 2024).  

The next OSSO & DDI online talk is on Wednesday!

November 5 | 16.00-17.00 EET
Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (UNC Charlotte)
Forgiveness? in Post-Digital Societies: A Technosocial and Metapragmatic Perspective

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03.11.2025 16:31 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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CADAAD 2026 Welcome to CADAAD 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 2026 edition of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will be hosted by the University of Va...

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Here you will find all the updates about the conference 🙂
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23.09.2025 07:32 — 👍 13    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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LINGUIST List 36.2452 Confs: Panel at the 4th International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics: The Pragmatics of Online Public Shaming The LINGUIST List, International Linguistics Community Online.

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22.08.2025 15:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Happy to share, open access special issue. brill.com/view/journal...

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Great news: The Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict is ranked as Q1 with a Cite Score of 4,4 for 2024. That positions JLAC in the 93% percentile: ranked 76/1126 journals in language and linguistics per SCOPUS (May 5, 2025).

08.06.2025 15:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict | John Benjamins <p>The goal of the journal is to create a unique outlet for cutting edge research, and has a format, content and structure that reflect the rapidly growing interest in studies that focus on the ...

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07.06.2025 17:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Volume 13, Issue 1 | John Benjamins Welcome to e-content platform of John Benjamins Publishing Company. Here you can find all of our electronic books and journals, for purchase and download or subscriber access.

JLAC’s new special issue!!

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08.04.2025 15:33 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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