School of Languages and Cultures

Dr Valeria Sinkeviciute

Applied Linguistics Program Convenor
Senior Lecturer
School of Languages and Cultures
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Researcher biography

I am Senior Lecturer in the School of Languages and Cultures at The University of Queensland (UQ).

My research interests lie within the broad areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis, particularly, the pragmatics of social interaction (face-to-face and online), identity construction, humour, (im)politeness, getting acquainted and family talk. I have been working with different types of data, including naturally-occurring conversations, reality television discourse, qualitative interviews, corpora and social media.

Currently, I'm working on a research project entitled Family talk in multilingual Australia (AusFamTalk): for more details, see my Research on a Page.

I am Associate Editor in the Journal of Pragmatics, an Editorial Board member in Advances in (Im)politeness Studies (book series), Springer and a member of the IPrA Consultation Board.

I regularly review grant applications and I am a member of:

  • College of Experts, European Science Foundation (from 2021)
  • Review College, FWO (Research Foundation – Flanders) (2024-2027)

I've always loved languages, maybe because I've always been surrounded by a variety of them. I'm a native speaker of Lithuanian (lietuvių) and Russian (русский), I spent many years studying and then also teaching English and I also have a certificate for teaching Spanish as a foreign language (español como lengua extranjera ELE). Due to my study/research relocations, I can also communicate (sometimes extremely poorly) in Dutch (nederlands), French (français) and Portuguese (português), and at the moment I'm struggling with Modern Greek (ελληνικά) and Japanese (日本語)!

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Programme contribution (current)

Convenor of Master of Applied Linguistics programme

Convenor of Discourse Discussion Group (DDG): Data analysis sessions and Pragmatics & Interaction reading group

  • 2026: Fridays, 12 pm - 2 pm & 2 pm - 4 pm;
  • Interested in joining or would like to find out more? Fill in the EoI form or contact me via email.

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Course contribution/Teaching areas:

UQ (undergraduate):

  • Digital Discourse and Social Media (SLAT3030)

UQ (postgraduate):

  • Language, Culture and Communication (SLAT7899)
  • Structure of Language (SLAT7705)

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Supervision (MA & PhD):

PhD (current)

  • Chilmeg Elden (associate supervisor; with Prof Michael Haugh): The establishment and management of interpersonal relationships in early encounters between Australian and Japanese language exchange partners
  • Zhiyi Liu (principal supervisor; with Dr Wei-Lin Melody Chang and Prof Ping Chen): The pragmatics of caring: Relating practices in Chinese-speaking families
  • Andrea Rodriguez (principal supervisor; with Prof Michael Haugh): Relational accountability: Insights from categorial work in accounting practices (Transnational family talk in Spanish)
  • Chantima Wangsomchok (associate supervisor; with Prof Michael Haugh): Conversational humour in English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) workplaces

PhD (completed)

  • (2025) Nicholas Hugman (associate supervisor; with Prof Michael Haugh): Towards a (micro)theory of conversational humour: The interactional accomplishment of incongruity
  • (2023) Amir Sheikhan (associate supervisor; with Prof Michael Haugh and Dr Wei-Lin Melody Chang): Conversational humour in intercultural initial interactions in English

MA (completed)

  • (2025) Sidonie Evans: "That's what being a dad's all about": The construction of the father category and fatherhood in male advice podcasts
  • (2025) Marlene Valdés Fuentes: "Mamá, por favor, ¿me dejas que me ponga ahí?: A multimodal analysis of a toddler's requests in Spanish family interactions
  • (2023) Yeisy Vanessa Maldonado Ramirez: Reporting offence to friends in Spanish: A pragmatic analysis of moral grounds and impolite behaviour
  • (2023) Shea-Lea Wheeler: A discourse study of fictional self-presentation in Dungeons & Dragons gameplay
  • (2021) Zhiyi Liu: Constructing identities of a mother and an older sister/adult child: Membership categorization analysis of Chinese-Australian family talk
  • (2021) Maria Nagao: English teachers of young learners in Japan: A discourse analytical study on identity construction
  • (2021) Shupei Ni: Relational work in video game live-streaming interactions: Case studies of jocular abuse and joint fantasizing
  • (2021) Andrea Rodriguez: "Ay no, I do feel exhausted": Interactional co-construction and interpersonal management of complaints in Spanish phone conversations between friends and relatives
  • (2020) Duyen Hong Ngoc Luong: Teaching English as a foreign language in Vietnam: Teachers' and students' perceptions of the English-only approach and code-switching in the classroom

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Forthcoming publications:

Journal articles

  • Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2026). The 'parent' category as an interactional resource in a sibling dispute over sharing. Discourse Studies 28(4).

Special Issues

  • Sinkeviciute, Valeria and Andrea Rodriguez (eds). (2026). Rules of engagement: Relationships and socialisation practices in family discourse. Discourse Studies 28(4).

Edited volume

  • Sinkeviciute, Valeria, Andrea Rodriguez and Zhiyi Liu (eds). (under contract). Relating, normativity and culture-in-action in family interaction: 'Doing family' across languages and spaces. Routledge

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Projects (current):

  • 2022-present: "Family talk in multilingual Australia"
    • 2025 (February-April): "'Who we are' in multilingual Australia: Language and identity construction in family talk" funded by a Fellowship at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany
    • 2023: "Talking families into being: Analysing family interactions in Australian multilingual context" funded by Research Fund, School of Languages and Cultures (UQ)
    • 2022: "'Who we are' in multilingual Brisbane: Family talk in Spanish and Russian speech communities" funded by HASS Enabler Funding Scheme (HASS EFS), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (UQ)

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Forthcoming conference presentations/talks:

  • 23-29 June 2026: Doing 'being siblings': The multimodal accomplishment of with and against practices at ICCA2026, Edmonton, Canada

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Edited special issues/volumes:

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Reviews of my monograph "Conversational humour and (im)politeness: A pragmatics analysis of social interaction":

  • Yang, N. (2022). Book review: Sinkeviciute, Valeria.2019. Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Journal of Politeness Research 18(2): 451-455. https://doi.org/10.1515/pr-2020-0015
  • Tsami, V. & Saloustrou, V. (2021). Book review: Sinkeviciute, Valeria.(2018). Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. The European Journal of Humour Research 9(3): 179-183. https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/ejhr/article/view/544/556
  • Murphy, J. (2021). Review of Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness: A Pragmatic Analysis of Social Interaction, Valeria Sinkeviciute. John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia (2019). 274 pp. ISBN 9789027262110 (e-book). Journal of Pragmatics 183: 105-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2021.07.010
  • Krendel, A. (2020). Review of Conversational Humour and (Im)politeness. Valeria Sinkeviciute, John Benjamins Publishing Company, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, 2019 (e-book), ISBN: 9789027262110. Corpus Pragmatics 4: 479–483.https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s41701-020-00086-w

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Panel organisation (since 2020):

  • 23-29 June 2026 (with Zhiyi Liu and Andrea Rodriguez) - 'Doing family' in talk-in-interaction: Diversity across languages, at the International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA2026), Edmonton, Canada
  • 22-27 June 2025 (with Andrea Rodriguez) - (Cross-)linguistic studies on relationships and socialisation practices in family discourse, at the 19th International Pragmatics Conference, IPrA2025, Brisbane, Australia
  • 9-14 July 2023 (with Andrea Rodriguez) - Membership categorisation and interpersonal relationships in social interaction, at the 18th International Pragmatics Conference, IPrA2023, Brussels, Belgium

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Invited research talks/lectures (since 2020):

  • 12 September 2025 - A pragmatic and categorial analysis of a sibling dispute. Talk at Research Seminar Series at Western Sydney University
  • 11 December 2024 - "Tú quieres que yo te dé un premio?": Acción social y categorías en las conversaciones familiares. Talk at Seminario Permanente de Análisis de la Conversación (SPAC)
  • 11-13 October 2024 - Online interaction as multimodal accomplishment of the social order. Plenary talk at the 3rd Interactional Conference on Discourse Pragmatics (ICDP-3)
  • 21 January 2021 - Social interaction and identity construction. Guest lecture for postgraduate students at University of Maribor, Slovenia
  • 20 January 2021 - Pragmatics and social action. Guest lecture for undergraduate students at University of Maribor, Slovenia

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Community workshops

  • 30 September 2025 - Peer-review training for PhD and ECRs (UQ Graduate School)
  • 2 September 2025 - Workshop on cultural competency (invited by UQ Vice-Chancellor Scholars Enrichment Program)
  • 16 October 2024 - Intercultural conversations: Am I being nice or rude? (invited by Student Affairs Division, UQ)
  • 21 March 2024 - Harmony in conversation (invited by Mental Health Champions Network, UQ)
  • 28 August 2023 - Intercultural conversations: How (not) to handle a conversation (invited by Multicultural Queensland Month)

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Journal Referee

Journal of Pragmatics / Pragmatics / Journal of Politeness Research / Discourse Studies / Lingua / Language & Communication / Research on Language and Social Interaction / Internet Pragmatics / Discourse, Context & Media / Contrastive Pragmatics / Pragmatics and Society / Gender, Work & Organization / Sociolinguistic Studies / Pragmatics & Cognition / Journal of English for Academic Purposes / The Sociological Review

Featured projects Duration
How far can an Aussie joke travel? Intercultural perspectives on Australian humour.
 2018
'Who we are' in multilingual Brisbane: Family talk in Spanish and Russian speech communities

Publications

Book (1)
Book Chapters (7)
Journal Articles (21)
Conference Papers (37)
Theses (3)

Book

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). Conversational humour and (im)politeness: a pragmatic analysis of social interaction. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/thr.8

Book Chapters

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2022). Teasing. Handbook of pragmatics: 25th annual installment. (pp. 156-176) edited by Frank Brisard, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras and Mieke Vandenbroucke. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing. doi: 10.1075/hop.25.tea1
Dynel, Marta and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2021). Conversational humour. The Cambridge handbook of sociopragmatics. (pp. 408-429) edited by Michael Haugh, Dániel Z. Kádár and Marina Terkourafi. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108954105.022
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2020). “Ya bloody drongo!!!”: Impoliteness as situated moral judgement on Facebook. (Im)politeness and moral order in online interactions. (pp. 67-97) edited by Chaoqun Xie. Amsterdam, Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. doi: 10.1075/bct.107.ip.00013.sin
Haugh, Michael and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). Offence and conflict talk. The Routledge handbook of language in conflict. (pp. 196-214) edited by Matthew Evans, Lesley Jeffries and Jim O’Driscoll. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429058011-12
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). "Everything he says to me it’s like he stabs me in the face": frontstage and backstage reactions to teasing. Multiple perspectives on language play. (pp. 169-198) edited by Nancy Bell. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9781501503993-008
Culpeper, Jonathan, Haugh, Michael and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). (Im)politeness and mixed messages. The Palgrave handbook of linguistic (im)politeness. (pp. 323-355) edited by Jonathan Culpeper, Michael Haugh and Daniel Z. Kadar. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-37508-7_13
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2013). Decoding encoded (im)politeness: ‘Cause on my teasing you can depend’. Developments in linguistic humour theory. (pp. 263-288) edited by Marta Dynel. Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/thr.1.13sin

Journal Articles

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2025). The ‘parent’ category as an interactional resource in a sibling dispute over sharing. Discourse Studies 14614456251396402. doi: 10.1177/14614456251396402
Sinkeviciute, Valeria and Rodriguez, Andrea (2025). Rules of engagement: relationships and socialisation practices in family discourse. Discourse Studies 14614456251396490. doi: 10.1177/14614456251396490
Rodriguez, Andrea and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2025). “Tú sabes lo que le pasa a él?”: the role of (relational) epistemics in indirect complaint sequences in Spanish and English family talk. Contrastive Pragmatics, 6 (1), 253-296. doi: 10.1163/26660393-bja10098
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2024). Introduction : Interactional analysis of social action in online interaction. Internet Pragmatics, 7 (1), 1-6. doi: 10.1075/ip.00113.sin
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2024). Multimodal joint fantasising as a category‑implicative and category‑relations‑implicative action in online multi‑party interaction. Internet Pragmatics, 7 (1), 101-136. doi: 10.1075/ip.00110.sin
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2022). The role of ‘familiarity’ in Mandarin Chinese speakers’ metapragmatic evaluations of Australian conversational humour. The European Journal of Humour Research, 10 (2), 74-95. doi: 10.7592/EJHR.2022.10.2.651
Haugh, Michael and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2021). The pragmatics of initial interactions: Cross-cultural and intercultural perspectives. Journal of Pragmatics, 185 (J. Pragmatics 169 2020), 35-39. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.09.004
Sinkeviciute, Valeria and Rodriguez, Andrea (2021). “So… introductions”: Conversational openings in getting acquainted interactions. Journal of Pragmatics, 179, 44-53. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2021.04.024
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2020). “Hey BCC this is Australia and we speak and read English”: Monolingualism and othering in relation to linguistic diversity. Intercultural Pragmatics, 17 (5), 577-603. doi: 10.1515/ip-2020-5003
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). Juggling identities in interviews: the metapragmatics of ‘doing humour’. Journal of Pragmatics, 152, 216-227. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.08.005
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). The interplay between humour and identity construction: From humorous identities to identities constructed through humorous practices. Journal of Pragmatics, 152, 127-131. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2019.07.005
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). "Ya bloody drongo!!!" Impoliteness as situated moral judgement on Facebook. Internet Pragmatics, 1 (2), 271-302. doi: 10.1075/ip.00013.sin
Haugh, Michael and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). Accusations and interpersonal conflict in televised multi-party interactions amongst speakers of (Argentinian and Peninsular) Spanish. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 6 (2), 248-270. doi: 10.1075/jlac.00012.hau
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). Variability in group identity construction: a case study of the Australian and British Big Brother houses. Discourse, Context and Media, 20, 70-82. doi: 10.1016/j.dcm.2017.09.006
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). "It's just a bit of cultural [...] lost in translation": Australian and British intracultural and intercultural metapragmatic evaluations of jocularity. Lingua, 197, 50-67. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2017.03.004
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). What makes teasing impolite in Australian and British English? “Step[ping] over those lines […] you shouldn’t be crossing”. Journal of Politeness Research, 13 (2), 175-207. doi: 10.1515/pr-2015-0034
Sinkeviciute, Valeria and Dynel, Marta (2017). Approaching conversational humour culturally: a survey of the emerging area of investigation. Language & Communication, 55, 1-9. doi: 10.1016/j.langcom.2016.12.001
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). Funniness and “the preferred reaction” to jocularity in Australian and British English: an analysis of interviewees' metapragmatic comments. Language & Communication, 55, 41-54. doi: 10.1016/j.langcom.2016.06.004
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2015). "There’s definitely gonna be some serious carnage in this house" or how to be genuinely impolite in Big Brother UK. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 3 (2), 317-348. doi: 10.1075/jlac.3.2.04sin
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2014). "When a joke's a joke and when it's too much": mateship as a key to interpreting jocular FTAs in Australian English. Journal of Pragmatics, 60, 121-139. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2013.11.004
Sinkeviciute, Valerija (2010). A comparative analysis of politeness in first encounter conversations in British English film and peninsular Spanish film. Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, HS2 (HS 2), 71-93. doi: 10.4000/lexis.820

Conference Papers

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2025). Invoking ‘appropriate’ behaviour through categorial work in parent-child interaction. 19th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA2025), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 22-27 June 2025.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2024). Online interaction as multimodal accomplishment of social order. The Third International Conference on Discourse Pragmatics, China and Online, 11-13 October 2024.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2024). Saying ‘no’: exploring children’s disagreement, refusal and rejection responses in parent-child and sibling interactions. Child Language Symposium, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 9 - 11 July 2024.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2024). “It is not inconceivable you might see the Dakserpensis Monoculus”: Joint fantasising and (un)accomplished intersubjectivity in online multi-party interaction. ESTIDIA, Vilnius, Lithuania, 12-14 June 2024.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2024). Sibling disputes as a socialisation site for pragmatic, relational and moral aspects of ‘sharing’. INPRA10, Pisa, Italy, 30 May - 1 June 2024.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2024). “Ma, yo no quiero hacerlo sola”: Parent-child interaction and the negotiation of categorial work in directive sequences. EPICSXI, Seville, Spain, 22-24 May 2024.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2023). “It’s not only about Bogotá”: Membership categorisation and the role of relational categories in friends talk. ICCA, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 26 June - 2 July 2023.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2023). “You surely can’t colour using all of them at the same time?”: the role of the parent category in sanctioning the other child’s behaviour and in mobilising ‘sharing’ as a moral foundation in sibling disputes. IPrA2023, Brussels, Belgium, 9-14 July 2023.
Rodriguez, Andrea and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2022). “Tú sabes lo que le pasa a él?”: indirect complaint sequences and the role of epistemics in failed affiliation. CA Day 2022, Leicestershire, United Kingdom, 19 December 2022.
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2022). “Is it supposed to be funny?” L2 speakers’ recognition, understanding and appreciation of Australian conversational humour. (Inter-)cultural perspectives on humour in the globalised world, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 20 June 2022.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria and Rodriguez, Andrea (2022). "Ay que pasó yo me quiero reír" ["Ay what happened? I want to laugh"]: Other-participation in humour sequences. 9th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (INPRA 9), Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 21-23 June 2022.
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2022). “Is it supposed to be funny?” L2 speakers’ recognition, understanding and appreciation of Australian conversational humour. Symposium: (Inter-)cultural perspectives on humour in the globalised world, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 20 June 2022.
Rodriguez, Andrea and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2022). Other-participation in humour sequences: An analysis of self-initiated recruitment, other-initiated recruitment and self-initiated sanctioning. Australian Humour Studies Network conference, Hobart, TAS Australia, 2-4 February 2022.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2021). “Excuse me, what’s wrong with the greetings?” Metapragmatic negotiation of action ascription and blame (re-)attribution in accusations and denials of racism. 17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur, Switzerland, 27 June-2 July 2021.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2020). “Should I bring my own snowboard or will rentals be available?”: A collective co-construction of humour, a ‘jester’ identity and exclusion of non-jokers. Australian Humour Studies Network Conference, Brisbane, Australia, 5-7 February 2020.
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). The metapragmatics of ‘familiarity’ in interactional humour. Australian Humour Studies Network conference, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 6-8 February 2019.
Chang, Wei-Lin Melody and Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). The metapragmatics of ‘familiarity’ in interactional humour. Australian Humour Studies Network conference, Melbourne, Australia, 6-8 February 2019.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2019). “Hey […] this is Australia and we speak and read English”: an analysis of impoliteness in relation to linguistic diversity on a local government’s Facebook page. 16th International Pragmatics Conference, Hong Kong, 9-14 June 2019.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). Doing ‘being ordinary’ and performing the real in a Big Brother house. AMPRA-4, Albany, NY, United States, 1-3 November 2018.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). “I wouldn’t publicly make a big song and dance about it”: Resisting (un)desirable identities. Sociolinguistics Symposium 22, Auckland, New Zealand, 27-30 June 2018.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). Variability in group identity construction in reality television discourse. 8th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics & Communication, Nicosia, Cyprus, 8-10 June 2018.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2018). “It’s not nice […] you’re just taking the piss out of me”: Failed humour and differences in its evaluation by (non-)participants. 24th Conference of the Australasian Humour Studies Network (AHSN), Cairns Australia, 2-4- February 2018.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). Performing yourself: constructing identity in initial encounters. Symposium "Getting Acquainted across Cultures", St Lucia, Brisbane, Queensland, 20 October 2017. St Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). Juggling multiple identities: a case of Australian and British views on jocularity. 15th International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, 16-21 July 2017.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2017). Intracultural and intercultural evaluations of mock impoliteness: a case study of Australian and British (non-)participants. 10th International Symposium on Politeness, York, United Kingdom, 12-14 July 2017.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2016). When “it’s funny” means “it’s not funny at all”: Evaluations of jocularity by non-participants. LAFAL 4, Lodz, Poland, 17-18 March 2016.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2016). Sledging Aussies and catty Brits: Cultural variability in (not) taking offence to jocularity. 7th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication, Split, Croatia, 10-12 June 2016.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2016). “If you made a joke […] then you could quite clearly […] show […] what you thought without […] losing face”: A jocular reaction as an expression of a disaffiliative stance. Linguistic Impoliteness Rudeness, and Aggression (LIAR IV), Manchester, UK, 12-14 July 2016.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2015). What makes teasing impolite? “Step[ping] over those lines […] you shouldn’t be crossing”. 9th International Im/Politeness Conference, Athens, Greece, 1-3 July 2015.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2015). “What is she doing with those people?” Group membership and humour in reality TV. 7th Lodz Symposium: New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, Lodz, Poland, 12-14 April 2015.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2015). “Reality is not events themselves but the talk about them”: The role of metalanguage in relation to teasing and (im)politeness. 14th International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 26-31 July 2015.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2014). "I’m just being polite": Performing mateship and kinship in Big Brother Australia and UK. 8th International Conference on Politeness, Huddersfield, UK, 9-11 July 2014.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2014). “There’s definitely gonna be some serious carnage in this house” or how to be genuinely impolite in Big Brother UK. Sixth International Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (EPICS VI), Seville, Spain, 12-14 May 2014.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2013). ‘I think that now you think it’s funny to be rude to people’: Aussies, Big Brother and some serious laughing matters. LAFAL 3, Lodz, Poland, 21-23 March 2013.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2013). Backstage Impoliteness: 'Everything he says to me it's like he stabs me in the face'. 13th International Pragmatics Conference, New Delhi, India, 8-13 September 2013.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2012). ‘It’s not all that easy’: (Im)politeness in teasing. 6th Lodz Symposium New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics (NDLP2012), Lodz, Poland, 26-28 May 2012.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2011). Indirect FTAs: A Cross-Cultural Study of Implicatures and Inferences in Off-record Politeness Strategies. Fourth International BAAHE Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 1-3 December 2011.

Theses

Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2016). “It’s never meant to be offensive…”: an analysis of jocularity and (im)politeness in Australian and British cultural contexts. PhD Thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Antwerp.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2010). One country, two cultures: a cross-cultural pragmatic study of implicatures and inferences in off-record strategies in Canadian English and Québécois. M.A. Thesis, Department of English Philology, Vilnius University.
Sinkeviciute, Valeria (2008). A comparative analysis of politeness in the first encounter conversations in British English and Peninsular Spanish. B.A. Thesis, Department of English Philology, Vilnius University.

Areas of research

Linguistics