1996
Iconicidad y doble articulación: Dos proyectos infructuosos de la semiótica respecto al arte. Paper at La Interdisciplinariedad en el Discurso Artístico: ¿Realidad o Utopía? Oviedo: University of Oviedo.
1997
Semiótica del sufrimiento: La fotografía de Salgado entre el analogon y la manipulación. Paper at El Discurso Artístico entre Oriente y Occidente: Semejanzas y Contrastes. Oviedo: University of Oviedo.
Pragmática del malentendido. Paper at the XV Congreso de AESLA. Zaragoza (Spain).
Indirectness in conversation: The theory of sub-continua. Paper at the XXI International AEDEAN Conference. Seville.
The Catcher in the Rye o El guardián entre el centeno: Opting for literariness. Paper at the First International Conference on English Studies, Almería (Spain).
Available here / Disponible aquí
2001
The linguistic-cognitive essence of virtual community. Plenary lecture at the First International Conference on Internet and Language. Castellon: Universitat Jaume I.
Conceptos ad hoc en el procesamiento de la metáfora. El caso de las viñetas humorísticas en la prensa. Invited lecture at Jornadas sobre Texto/Imagen. Ciudad Real: University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain).
2005
Ad hoc concepts and visual metaphor? Towards relevant ad hoc pointers. Paper at the 9th International Pragmatics Conference. Riva del Garda (Italy).
2006
Saturación contextual en la comprensión de la ironía. Paper at VIII Jornadas de Estudios de Lingüística. Análisis del Discurso. Alicante: University of Alicante.
Mesa redonda: ¿Qué es la ironía?: Un punto de encuentro entre varios enfoques. At: VIII Jornadas de Estudios de Lingüística. Análisis del Discurso. Alicante: University of Alicante.
2007
Estrategias interpretativas en los ciber-medios. Plenary lecture at VIII Ciclo de Conferencias "Adquisición y uso de segundas lenguas" (Nuevas tecnologías en la enseñanza/aprendizaje de segundas lenguas). Pablo de Olavide University, Seville (Spain).
2008
Estrategias y efectos en el discurso humorístico. Invited lecture at II Jornadas de Lingüística y Cognición. Cádiz: University of Cádiz.
2010
Ciberpragmática. Ciberpragmática 2.0. Ciberpragmática 3.0. Invited lecture at Interdisciplinarity, Languages and ICT. Valencia (Spain).
Nuevas formas de interacción en Internet: Los sitios de redes sociales y los mundos virtuales tridimensionales. Paper at II Jornadas sobre Lengua y Tecnología. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (Spain).
Relevance, humour and translation. Plenary lecture at the 5th Conference Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation. Kazimierz Dolny (Polonia).
La lengua y el humor. Paper at Hablemos del Humor, University of Alicante, Sede Universitaria.
La relevancia como motor de comunicación en Internet. Plenary lecture at Semiótica 3.0. Conocimiento, Contemporaneidad, Comunicación. Bogotá (Colombia).
2011
A pragmatic analysis of jokes. Invited lecture at the Seminar Meaning in Interaction. Seville: University of Seville.
En qué difieren los géneros electrónicos de los analógicos. Invited lecture at Leer y Escribir en Español en la Red. Aprendizaje, Renovación y Propuestas. University of Comillas, Cantabria (Spain).
2012
Identidades físicas e identidades en línea: Atracciones, desencuentros y solapamientos. Invited lecture at Identitats Perverses, Identitats en Conflicte. Lléida (Spain).
2013
Una aproximación discursiva a las identidades en línea. Plenary lecture at Language and Identity in the Spanish-Speaking World (6th International Conference of Hispanic Linguistics and 4th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society). Birkbeck, University of London.
Turismo móvil: Discurso, interactividad y usabilidad en las ‘apps’ de turismo. Paper at Discurso y Géneros del Turismo 2.0. Valencia: University of Valencia and IULMA, April.
English version available here.
La seducción de lo no codificado. Invited lecture at Intermedialidad en la lengua y la literatura hispánicas. Coloquio Internacional. Université de Lausanne.
17-18 October 2014 / 17-18 de octubre de 2014.
¿Puede la pragmática cognitiva abordar toda la pragmática? Invited lecture at the II Workshop Internacional de Pragmática. Universidade Nacional de Paraná (Brazil), November.
In this Workshop I also deliver a Course on cyberpragmatics and I participated in a round table on the translation of humour.
2015
La participación activa del lector de cómic. Opening lecture at the Course Còmic com a Element Didàctic III. University of Alicante, February.
Contextual sources, mutually manifest assumptions and epistemic vigilance in ironic communication. Paper at the 14th International Pragmatics Conference. Antwerp (Belgium, July).
Handout available here / Handout disponible aquí
Powerpoint presentation available here / Presentación de Powerpoint disponible aquí
Should relevance theory analyse what is non-propositional, non-intentional but yet affects the eventual relevance? Paper at Relevance Round Table Meeting 4. Institute of English Studies, Jagiellonian University of Kraków, September.
Powerpoint presentation available here
Handout, page 1, available here
Handout, page 2, available here
Handout, page 3, available here
Handout, page 4, available here
The discursive management of the phatic Internet (and how to explain it pragmatically). Paper at Approaches to Digital Discourse Analysis (ADDA) Conference. Valencia (Spain).
Handout page 1-2 available here.
Handout page 3 available here.
Handout page 4 available here.
Handout page 5-8 available here.
Handout page 9-10 available here.
Broadening the (propositional) scope of pragmatics in order to address the (non-propositional) quality of humorous effects. Paper at I Workshop on Advanced Studies of Humor and Gender (WASHUM). Alicante (Spain): University of Alicante, November.
2016
Incongruity-resolution and the explicit-implicated-implied interface. Plenary lecture at Linguistic Approaches to Funniness, Amusement and Laughter. 4th International Symposium: Theoretical Issues in Humour, Building Bridges across Disciplines. University of Lodz (Poland), March.
The phatic Internet. Networked feelings and emotions across the propositional-non-propositional and the intentional-unintentional board. Invited lecture at the International Conference on Language and Emotion. Madrid, November.
The video recording of my presentation is available here.
Powerpoint presentation available here.
Handout, page 1 available here.
Handout, page 2 available here.
Handout, page 3-4 available here.
Handout, page 5-6 available here.
Handout, page 7-8 available here.
The video recording of my presentation is available here.
2017
A cognitive pragmatics approach to humorous communication. Plenary lecture at the 7th Humor Research Conference. Texas A&M University Commerce. Dallas (USA).
The pragmatic story of a stand-up story. Plenary lecture at the 2nd Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature: Humorousness/Seriousness Dichotomy in Language, Culture and Literature. Siedlce (Poland), April.
Humour and user's identity. The case of Internet memes. Paper at the 15th International Pragmatics Conference. Belfast, July.
A review of today's IULMA and its ESP research. Paper at ESP & EAP in Spain: New Horizons. Castellón: Jaume I University, November.
2018
Cyberpragmatics of interactions through locative media. Plenary lecture at the International CoCoLaC-Conference. Comparative Approaches to Pragmatics. Helsinki, March.
Are stand-up comedy monologues cultural attractors? Paper at EPICS VIII. Seville: University of Seville.
The future of internet pragmatics. Invited lecture at the First International Conference on Internet Pragmatics. Fuzhou (China), September.
Paradojas de la comunicación por Internet. Invited lecture at En torno a la comunicación digital: Educación, discurso y traducción. Buenos Aires: University of Belgrano.
2019
Identity online: A multi-disciplinary pragmatic account. Invited lecture at the 7th Liberal Arts International Conference (Liberal Arts in the Global Age: Changing Winds and Shifting Sands). Texas A.M. in Doha (Qatar), March.
Pragmática del emoji: Dentro, fuera y más allá. Plenary lecture at III Jornadas "En torno a la comunicación digital: Interacción, turismo y discurso político. Universidad de Valladolid, Segovia.
Incongruity-resolution patterns in meme communication. Paper at the International Conference on Verbal Humor. Alicante.
2020
Live streaming on Twitch: More pragmatics than meets the eye. Paper at the 9th International Symposium On Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (“Communication in the 21st Century: Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics”). Powerpoint presentation available here / Presentación de powerpoint disponible aquí
Disambiguation should not exist (but it does in humour). Paper at the 9th International Symposium On Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics (“Communication in the 21st Century: Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics”).
Powerpoint presentation available here / Presentación de powerpoint disponible aquí
Joke corpus arranged in categories available here / corpus de chistes organizado por categorías disponible aquí
2021
Ciberpragmática. Paper at VII Jornadas de ELE UCM. Medios de comunicación y redes sociales en la enseñanza de ELE. Madrid: Complutense University.
Humorous effects from Covid-19 memes. The role of multimodal combinations (with C. Maíz-Arévalo). Paper at the 17th International Pragmatics Conference. Winterthur. Powerpoint presentation available here
'Laughing together, coping together': The role of humorous memes in the Covid-19 crisis (with C. Maíz-Arévalo). Paper at the 17th International Pragmatics Conference. Winterthur.
The importance of place in digital communication (with A. Parini). Paper at the 17th International Pragmatics Conference. Winterthur.
The specificity of interactive humor on messaging applications. The case of WhatsApp conversations. Paper at the II International Workshop on Advanced Studies of Humor and Gender. University of Alicante.
2022
Diseccionar el humor en la mensajería instantánea. El caso de WhatsApp. Paper at AESLA 39. Las Palmas, Spain. Available here: https://personal.ua.es/francisco.yus/AESLA.pdf
La traducibilidad del chiste: Una propuesta pragmática. Invited lecture at Jornada de Traducción Técnico-Científica AATI-UB 2022. Buenos aires.
Managing irony online: The role of context accessibility. Paper at EPICS X. Seville: Pablo de Olavide university. Available here: https://personal.ua.es/francisco.yus/EPICSX.pdf
Messaging humour across the West and East. A pragmatics of humorous interactions on WhatsApp and WeChat. Plenary lecture at the 7th Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Structure, Use, and Meaning: Language and Dialogue from an Intercultural Perspective. Braşov (Romania): University of Transilvania.
Designing jokes for successful humorous effects. Invited lecture at the V Discourse Analysis Seminar: Verbal Humour. University of Valencia, Spain.
La comunicación más allá del texto en WhatsApp: Alteraciones y compensaciones. Invited lecture at La comunicación pública en los siglos XIX, XX y XXI: De los albores del peridosmo al discurso digital de masas. Málaga: University of Málaga.
2023
El modelo humorístico de círculos que se cruzan: Aplicabilidad y posibles ajustes tras 10 años. Paper at II Simposio Internacional sobre el Humor Verbal: El Humor Interactivo. Seville: University of Seville.
El humor en tiempos de duelo (with P. Bou). Paper at the 40th International AESLA Conference. Mérida (Spain).
Why is internet communication so challenging for pragmatics? Plenary lecture at the 2nd international Conference on Digital Linguistics. Alicante: University of Alicante.
What is really at stake when we talk about “a pragmatics of emoji"? Paper at the 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Brussels.
What is the visual referent of an emoji? Beyond default referents and into context-dependent "ad hoc" referents. Paper at Approches to Digital Discourse Analysis 4 (ADDA4). Klagenfurt, Austria.
Publicidad efectiva en el teléfono inteligente: combinar esfuerzo y beneficio para el usuario. Invited lecture at Inteligencia artificial, discurso digital y lenguaje, organised by Instituto de Investigaciones de Lingüística Aplicada de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Perú.
2024
Engaging users through corporate social media humour: A pragmatic account of Burger King and KFC strategies underlying the memes published on the site X (with Thomas Messerli). Paper at EPICS XI. Seville: Pablo de Olavide University.
“Food pics”: Desde un contenido en apariencia irrelevante a interacciones con relevantes efectos afectivos. Paper at Recod 5. London: University of Birkbeck.
Preparatory discourses in memes. A proposal of classification. Paper at the II International Conference on Verbal Humour. Alicante: University of Alicante, October.
Cognitive pragmatics and internet pragmatics. So distant so close. Plenary lecture at the 24th International Conference of the Department of Linguistics (CIDL24). Bucharest.
2025
Discursos preparatorios en chistes basados en la ambigüedad. Una propuesta de clasificación. Paper at the 42nd International AESLA Conference. Palma, Mallorca.
The specificity of internet humour: A cognitive pragmatics account. Plenary lecture delivered at the International Society for Humor Studies Conference. Krakow (Poland).