Centre for European and International Studies Research (CEISR)

Profile

I'm interested in computer-mediated communication -- in the work environment in particular. I research computer-mediated synchronous interactions in virtual teams, focusing on issues such as politeness, power and hierarchy, the construction of individual and group identity. In my work I draw on several linguistic and non-linguistic frameworks, such as interactional sociolinguistics, (critical) discourse analysis, communities of practice.

Qualifications

• BA  Teaching English as Foreign Language (Eotvos Lorand University Teacher Training Faculty, Budapest, Hungary)
• MA Linguistics (Eotvos Lorand University Faculty of Humanities, Budapest, Hungary)

Research Clusters

• Language across borders

Discipline 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

Research CV

Current Research Projects

• PhD Thesis: Instant messaging in a work-based virtual team: the linguistic construction of solidarity, hierarchy and power.

Journal Articles

• Darics, E. (2010) Politeness in computer-mediated discourse of a virtual team, Journal of Politeness Research. Language, Behaviour, Culture. Volume 6, Issue 1, Pages 129–150.

Book Chapters

• Darics, E. (2010) Relational work in synchronous text-based CMC of virtual teams, Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction, Rotimi Taiwo (Ed.), 830-851.

Other Publications

• Darics, E. (2008) Analysis of computer mediated discourse in multicultural virtual teams. Theoretical framework and methodology in Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC 2008), F. Sudweeks and C. Ess (Eds.), Nimes, France.
• 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 in Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC 2006), F. Sudweeks and C. Ess (Eds.), Tartu, Estonia, 667-680.

Grants Received

• Bursary for Darics, E. (2009). 'Hi honey, can I ask you a quick?': Discourse strategies and interactional norms in a virtual work environment. Presented at the i-mean@UWE conference, Bristol, 23-25 April, 2009.