Rosina Márquez Reiter is a professor of pragmatics and interactional discourse analysis at the Open University, UK. She is a recognized researcher in the area of language and culture, especially regarding the interface between pragmatics and sociolinguistics, focusing on (inter)action. An important milestone in her work on intercultural pragmatics has been the identification of the cultural norms to which speakers are oriented in conversational exchanges in English and Spanish, including various (trans)national contexts of service providing and studies on (im)politeness. Her research has also focused on the intersection between dialect and culture. She has analyzed the conversational dynamics of institutional transactions between Spanish speakers from different cultures in communicative environments that result from globalization.

Recently, her interest in the role that language and culture play in globalized communication contexts has led her to focus on multidialectalism and (im)mobility. She has analyzed the way ethnolinguistic identities and socio-cultural practices are negotiated and transformed in migratory contexts, especially regarding Latin Americans in London and Madrid, and in connection with the lack of social inclusion. Currently, she is working on the translocation of relational practices among Latin American migrants in London and a research project on sociocultural marginalization in countries of the Global South.

She has published the following books: Linguistic Politeness in Britain and Uruguay (John Benjamins, 2000), Spanish Pragmatics (Palgrave, 2005, with M. E. Placencia), Current Trends in the Pragmatics of Spanish (Palgrave, 2005, with M. E. Placencia), Mediated Business Interactions. Intercultural Communication between Speakers of Spanish (Edinburgh University Press, 2011), A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora. Latino practices, identities and ideologies (Routledge, 2015 with L. Martín Rojo) and The Pragmatics of Sensitive Activities in Institutional Discourse (John Benjamins, 2018, with M. J. Hansen), Language Practice and Processes among Latin Americans in Europe (Routledge, 2021-2022, with A. Patiño-Santos). She is a member of several international magazines’ committees. She is also the co-editor of the journals Spanish in Context (which she founded in 2004 with Ofelia García and Ricardo Otheguy) and Pragmatics. She is part of the Review College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council as well as other review agencies.

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6627-1813