School of Languages and Area Studies (SLAS)
Dr Erika Darics
Lecturer, English Language & Linguistics
School of Languages and Area Studies
Park Building, King Henry I Street
Portsmouth PO1 2DZ
UK
Profile
Qualifications
BA in TEFL
MA in Linguistics
PhD in Linguistics/Business Discourse
List of Publications
- Darics, E. (to appear in 2014). Digital media in workplace interactions. In A. Georgakopoulou, & T. Spilioti (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Digital Communication. Routledge.
- Darics, E. (forthcoming in August 2013). The blurring boundaries between synchronicity and asynchronicity: New communicative situations in work-related instant messaging. Journal of Business Communication.
- Darics, E. (2010). Relational work in synchronous text-based CMC of virtual teams. In R. Taiwo (Ed.), Handbook of research on discourse behavior and digital communication: Language structures and social interaction (pp. 830-851) IGI Global.
- Darics, E. (2010). Politeness in computer-mediated discourse of a virtual team. Journal of Politeness Research, 6(1), 129-150.
- Darics, E. (2008). Analysis of computer mediated discourse in virtual teams. In F. Sudweeks, H. Hrachovec & C. Ess (Eds.), Proceedings cultural attitudes towards communication and technology (pp. 308-313). Australia: Murdoch University.
- Darics, E. and Christie, C. (2006). Is Hungarian "blown off its feet" by the English-dominated CMC channels? Self-regulative methods and the preservation of Hungarian. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication (CATaC 2006), Tartu, Estonia. 667-680.
Recent conference talks
- Darics, E. (2012) “How to be a boss in instant messaging?” The linguistic construction of identity and the negotiation of hierarchy in a virtual team. Presented at the European Convention of the Association for Business Communication. May 30-June 2, Nijmegen, Holland.
- Darics E. (2012) The blurring boundaries between synchronicty and asynchronicity. Presented at BAAL. Language and the Social Media. 26 April. University of Leicester.
- Darics, E. (2012) "Cool, no immediate response needed..." The blurring boundaries between synchronicity and asynchronicity. Invited guest lecture at Kingston University, London. 23 February 2012.
- Darics, E. (2011). “Auditory” contextualization cues in work-related Instant Messaging. Presented at GURT 2011, Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media, Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, 09-11 March 2011.
- Darics, E. (2011). Chronemic cues in work-related instant messaging. Presented at the Interpersonal Communication and Social Interaction conference, Belfast, 07-09 September, 2011
Teaching Responsibilities
- Style in English
- Language and the Internet
- Communication in the Workplace 1: The Language of Interpersonal Skills
- Communication in the Workplace 2: The Language of Human Resources
- English for European Business Programme
Research Areas
- Computer Mediated Communication
- Computer Mediated Discourse Analysis
- Discourse of virtual teams
- Electronic communicative competence
- Interactional Sociolinguistics
- Language and Gender
- Language at work
- Linguistic politeness