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Articles and Book Chapters

  • 2024 – Ermida, Isabel. Ageist Propaganda in Social Media: Disguising Hate Speech through Mock Politeness. In:  Propaganda Through the Ages, A special issue of Token. A Journal of English Linguistics in honour of Nicholas Brownlees. Guest-edited by Christina Samson, Elisabetta Cecconi and Isabella Martini.

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  • 2023 – Ermida, Isabel. Building and Analysing an Online Hate Speech Corpus: The NETLANG Experience and Beyond. In: Isabel Ermida (Ed.), Hate Speech in Social Media: Linguistic Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan. 3-34.

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  • 2023 – Ermida, Isabel. Distinguishing Online Hate Speech from Aggressive Speech: A Five-Factor Annotation Model. In: Isabel Ermida (Ed.), Hate Speech in Social Media: Linguistic Approaches. Palgrave Macmillan. 35-75.

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  • 2020 - Ermida, Isabel. Impoliteness in Blunderland: Carroll’s Alice Books and the Manners in which Manners Fail. In: Jucker, Andreas and Taavitsainen, Irma (eds), Manners and their transgressions in the History of English: Literary and linguistic approaches. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 214-246.

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  • 2019 - Rangel-Henriques, Pedro; Cristiana Araújo; Isabel Ermida; Idalete Dias. Scraping News Sites and Social Networks for Prejudice Term Analysis. In: Applied Computing 2019, eds. Hans Weghorn and Luís Rodrigues. ISBN 978-989-8533-95-1. 179-189.

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  • 2018 - Ermida, Isabel. 'Get the snip – and a job!’ Disagreement, impoliteness and conflicting identities on the Internet. In: Token - A Journal of English Linguistics. 205-247. â€‹

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  • 2017-  Ermida, Isabel. ‘Astronomically true’: A Linguistic Approach to Poe’s Scientific Satire in ‘Hans Phaall – A Tale’. In: Roberts, Jane and Darby, Trudi L. (Eds.) English Without Boundaries: Reading English from China to Canada. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 135-155.

 

  • 2017 - Ermida, Isabel. Newspaper Funnies at the Dawn of Modernity: Multimodal Humour in Early American Comic Strips. In: Irma Taavitsainen (ed.), Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, Benjamins series of Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 267-293.

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  • 2016 - Ermida, Isabel. Gothic Old and New: Introduction. In: Ermida, Isabel (Ed.) Dracula and the Gothic in Literature, Pop Culture and the Arts. Boston and Leiden: Brill |Rodopi, 1-30.​

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  • 2015 - Ermida, Isabel. Playing upon news genre conventions: The case of Twain’s news satire. In: Birte Boos and Lucia Kornexl (eds), Historical News Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 223-250.

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  • 2014 - Ermida, Isabel. 'A beached whale posing in lingerie': Conflict talk, disagreement and impoliteness in online newspaper commentary. In: Diacrítica – Série Ciências da Linguagem, Ed. Húmus, 27/1. 95-130.

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  • 2012 – Ermida, Isabel. News Satire in the Press: Linguistic Construction of Humour in Spoof News Articles. In: Chovanec, Jan and Ermida, Isabel (Eds.), Humour and Language in the Media. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 185-210.

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  • 2012 – Ermida, Isabel and Jan Chovanec. Language, Humour and the Media. In: Chovanec, Jan & Ermida, Isabel (Eds.), Humour and Language in the Media. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. xi-xviii.

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  • 2011 – Ermida, Isabel. A Teoria da Cortesia aplicada a um chat-room: Um estudo de caso no âmbito da Pragmática Linguística. In: Rosas, João (Ed.), Pensar Radicalmente a Humanidade. Ensaios em Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Acílio E. Rocha. Universidade do Minho: Húmus. 245-276.

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  • 2011 – Ermida, Isabel. 'Losers, poltroons and nudniks' in Woody Allen’s Mere Anarchy: A linguistic approach to comic failure. In: Marta Dynel (Ed.), The Pragmatics of Humour across Discourse Domains, Pragmatics & Beyond New Series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 335-352.​

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  • 2010 – Ermida, Isabel. Representações Étnicas na Imprensa Americana: A Construção do Outro na Cobertura Jornalística do 11 de Setembro (“Ethnic reresentations in the American media: Press constructions of the other in the 9/11 aftermath”). Diacrítica – Série Ciências da Linguagem, 24/1. 123-150.​

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  •  2009 – Ermida, Isabel. Together or apart: Targeting, offence and group dynamics in humour. Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education – JoLIE, University of Alba Iulia, Romania. 93-104.

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  • 2009 – Ermida, Isabel. When the trails go cold: British press narratives on Maddie, Brno Studies in English, Masaryk University (Brno, Czech Republic). 45-62. 

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  • 2009 – Ermida, Isabel. O nonsense que faz sentido(s): Sobre os jogos de linguagem nas líricas de Rui Reininho (“Making sense out of nonsense: Wordplay in Rui Reininho’s Lyrics”). Diacrítica – Série Ciências da Literatura, 23/3. 227-258. 

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  • 2009 – Ermida, Isabel. Guilty Laughter: On the Ethics of HumourDiacrítica – Série Filosofia, 23/2. 361-375. â€‹

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  • 2009 – Ermida, Isabel. 'To the barricades, old codgers': Representations of Ageing in the British and Portuguese Press”, Diacrítica – Série Ciências da Linguagem, 23/1. Braga: University of Minho. 85-114.

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  • 2008 – Ermida, Isabel. Corpos e Tropos: Figurações da Corporalidade na Imprensa Feminina (“Bodies and Tropes: Representing the Body in Women’s Magazines”) Diacrítica – Série Literatura, Braga: University of Minho. 59-74.​

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  • 2008 – Ermida, Isabel. Comic Failure in Woody Allen’s Mere Anarchy: A Case of Linguistic Success. Diacrítica – Série Ciências da Linguagem, 22/1. Braga: University of Minho. 185-204.

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  • 2007 – Ermida, Isabel. Grey Power in the Press: British Media Discourse on the Aged. In O Poder das Narrativas e as Narrativas do Poder (The Power of Narratives and the Narratives of Power ), Centre for Humanities Studies, University of Minho. 275-302. 

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  • 2007 – Ermida, Isabel. O Tempo e o Riso: Reflexões Diacrónicas sobre o Cómico de Linguagem (“Time and Laughter: Diachronical Reflections on Linguistic Humour”), in Diacrítica – Série Ciências da Linguagem, 21/1, 2007, Braga: University of Minho. 77-105. â€‹

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  • 2007 – Ermida, Isabel. Bad chicks on the booze: Magazine discourse on women’s drinking habits. In Carlos Ceia & Isabel Lousada (Eds.), Novos Caminhos da História e da Cultura, Lisbon: Ed. Minerva. 317-333. 

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  • 2006 – Ermida, Isabel. Linguistic Mechanisms of Power in Nineteen Eighty-Four: Applying Politeness Theory to Orwell’s World. Journal of Pragmatics, Elsevier, Vol. 38, Issue 6. 842-862. 

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  • 2005 – Ermida, Isabel. Language, Style and Gender in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories, in Stylistyka, Special Issue: "Style and Gender", Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland. 81-96. 

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  • 2005 – Ermida, Isabel. 'Marks of Weakness, Marks of Woe'. Revisiting Blake, in J.Paisana (Ed.) Hélio Osvaldo Alves – O Guardador de Rios, Poliedro Collection, Braga: University of Minho. 91-102. 

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  • 2005 – Ermida, Isabel. When saying is not meaning: A pragmatic approach to humorous ironies. In Pragmatics Today, Edited by Piotr Cap and Richard W. Janney, Frankfurt/Main: Peter Lang. 235-244. 

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  • 2005 – Ermida, Isabel. Nas entrelinhas do Riso: Pressuposições Semânticas e Pragmáticas no Discurso Cómico (“In Between the Humorous Lines: Semantic and Pragmatic Presuppositions in Comic Discourse”). In: M.A.Marques et al (Eds.), 30 Anos de Investigação e Ensino, Braga: University do Minho. 67-84. 

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  • 2004 – Ermida, Isabel. Language, Humour and Cinema: A Linguistic Approach to Comic Film Discourse. In: Ermida, I. et al (Eds.), Práticas de Investigação em Análise Linguística do Discurso, Hespérides Collection, Braga: University of Minho. 95-112. 

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  • 2003 – Ermida, Isabel. As Palavras e o Tempo: Empréstimos Lexicais no Inglês Médio (“Words and Time: Loanwords in Middle English”). In Diacrítica – Série Linguística 17/1, Braga: University of Minho. 55-80. â€‹

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  • 2000 - Ermida, Isabel, Clara Amorim, Manuela Veloso and Miguel Gusmão. Interferências no discurso bilingue (“Interferences in bilingual discourse”). In Do Esplendor na Relva. Elites e Cultura Comum de Expressão Inglesa, Ed. Álvaro Pina et al., 2000, Lisbon: Cosmos. 433-447. 

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  • 1998 - Ermida, Isabel, Os Actos de Fala na Banda Desenhada: Uma Aplicação das Teorias de Austin e Searle a Calvin & Hobbes de Bill Watterson (“Speech Acts in Comic Strips: Applying Austin and Searle’s Theory to Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson”). In Proceedings of the 18th APEAA Meeting (1997), Guarda, 1998. 243-263. 

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  • 1995 - Ermida, Isabel. Lucius and Huck: a Comparative Approach to The Reivers and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In Proceedings of the 14th APEAA Meeting (1993), Coimbra, 1995, pp.345-359. 

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  • 1990 - Ermida, Isabel. Mário de Sá-Carneiro: o Eu e o Sonho (“Self and Dream in Mário de Sá-Carneiro”). Brotéria, Vol.130, Nº5-6, 1990. 569-583. 

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