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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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Get your Zooms ready, we are staring in 50 minutes 🎙️ 💻 👩‍🎓
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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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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).  
November 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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coocho.bsky.social
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

Join the Zoom room:
tinyurl.com/talkddi
@ylvabiri.bsky.social @lulind.bsky.social
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).  
November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Hi! Welcome to the Bluesky account of #cadaad2026!
Here you will find all the updates about the conference 🙂
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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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September 23, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Delighted to share the details of my forthcoming book:

www.routledge.com/Autism-in-In...
Autism in Interaction: (Un)masking and Impoliteness
This book seeks to build further links between (im)politeness research and autism by countering prevailing notions in pragmatics around autism and media portrayals of autistic characters through the l...
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September 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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FYI

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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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August 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Happy to share, open access special issue. brill.com/view/journal...
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June 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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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).
June 8, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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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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June 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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JLAC’s new special issue!!

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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.
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April 8, 2025 at 3:33 PM