October 2014
CV OF IRENE THEODOROPOULOU
Assistant Professor of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis
Associate of King’s College London
Contact details
Department of English Literature and Linguistics
College of Arts and Sciences
Qatar University
P.O. Box 2713, Doha,
State of Qatar
Office Tel: : +974 44034924
Mobile: +974 33856193
Office Location: Main Women’s Building, 134
Fax: (+974) 4403-4901
Email: [email protected]
Webpage: http://faculty.qu.edu.qa/eirinitheodoropoulou/ & www.academia.edu/
IreneTheodoropoulou
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Sociolinguistics (Modern Greek, (Gulf) Arabic and English)
Discourse analysis
Rhetoric
Computer-mediated communication
Sociocultural linguistics and architecture
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EMPLOYMENT
February 2011 – today: Assistant professor of sociolinguistics & discourse analysis, Department
of English Literature & Linguistics, Qatar University
July 2013: Instructor at the University of the Aegean Summer School ‘Language, Gender, and
Sexuality: Discourses of Precarious Citizenship in Precarious Times. The Balkan Experience’.
1st - 14th July, 2013, Lesvos island, Greece.
September 2010 – January 2011: Visiting assistant professor of sociolinguistics. Department of
English Literature & Linguistics, Qatar University
September 2008 – June 2010: Part time lecturer in sociolinguistics, Modern Language Centre,
King’s College London
EDUCATION
2006 – 2010
King’s College London (London, UK)
Ph.D, Sociolinguistics
Thesis: Indexicalities of Modern Greek speech style: A comparative
sociolinguistic study on Athenian suburban class identities
2007
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 2007
Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA)
Coursework in sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology
2005 - 2006
University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK)
MPhil. in English and Applied Linguistics (Merit)
2000 - 2005
University of Athens (Athens, Greece)
Ptychion (equivalent to B.A) in Greek Philology (major: linguistics)
B.A dissertation: The use of interjections in comics
GPA: 9.08/10 (summa cum laude)
2005
Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute 2005,
Harvard University/MIT (Cambridge, MA)
Coursework in sociolinguistics, creole linguistics and field research methods
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2002 – 2003
University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
Coursework in applied linguistics, classics, byzantine history
1999 – 2000
University of Athens (Athens, Greece)
Coursework in law
1999
Apolyterio Lykeiou (High School Graduation Title). Arsakeio Hellenic Classical
Lyceum of Psychico. Grade: 19 8/11 out of 20 (Excellent)
RESEARCH GRANTS
Year
Research grant
2013a
Junior Scientists Research Experience Program (JSREP) Grant (JSREP SREP 4 - 009
- 6 - 003) from Qatar National Research Fund for the project titled ‘Between offline
and online Qatar: Sociolinguistics of globalized social class, identity and culture’.
Duration of the Grant: 2013-2016. $267,986.
2013b
Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) Grant (UREP 13-094-5-023)
from Qatar National Research Fund for the project titled ‘Developing an illustrated
glossary of Qatar’s traditional architectural terminology’. Collaboration with Dr.
Yasser Mahgoub, Department of Architecture & Urban Planning, Qatar University.
Duration of the Grant: 2013-2014. $56,200
2011
Start-Up Grant from Qatar University (QUSG-CAS-SPR-11/12-7) for a
sociolinguistic project titled ‘Social class, language and globalization in
contemporary Qatar’. Duration of the Grant: 2011-2012. $14,000.
2009
King’s College School of Humanities Small Grant. £500
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PUBLICATIONS
MONOGRAPH
Year/Status
2014
Title
Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
EDITED VOLUMES
Year/Status
Title
In preparation
Sociolinguistics of Revolution
2007
with Charles Chang & Esuna Dugarova & Elina Vilar Beltrán & Edward
Wilford (eds.) CamLing 2006: Proceedings of the Fourth University of
Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge Institute of Language Research
ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
Year/Status
Title
Under revision a
Sociolinguistic anatomy of mobility: The case of Qatar
Under revision b
Towards a sociolinguistics of popular literature: Northern Athenian
suburbanites in Modern Greek chick lit
Under revision c
Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi on Facebook
In press a
Politeness on Facebook: The case of Modern Greek birthday wishes. In:
Locher, Miriam A., Bolander, Brook, and Höhn, Nicole (eds.), Special issue:
Relational Work in Facebook and Discussion Boards/Fora. Pragmatics.
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Year/Status
Title
In press b
with Joseph Tyler. Perceptual dialectology of the Arab world. In: AlcArabiyya 47, 21-39.
2013
Sociolinguistic variation in Athenian Greek. In: Journal of Greek
Linguistics 13: 28-51
2011
Popular literature discourses of Athenian suburbia: Northern suburbs. In:
Articulo – Journal of Urban Research. http://articulo.revues.org/1582
(08/08/2011)
2010
The globalization of Greek language: the case of sociolinguistic metalanguage. In: Trans - Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 17.
http://www.inst.at/trans/17Nr/2-2/2-2_theodoropoulou17.htm (08/08/2011)
2009
Discourse markers vs. interjections: An interactional sociolinguistic
approach. In: Language Forum: A Journal of Language and Literature 35
(1): 79-97
CHAPTERS IN REFEREED BOOKS
Year/Status
Title
In preparation Sociolinguistic research in Qatar as a vehicle for empowering women. In:
a
Lawson, Robert & David Sayers (eds.) Sociolinguistics: Impact and
Applications.
In preparation Social status, language and society in the Arab world
b
To appear
Intercultural communicative styles in Qatar: Greek and Qataris. In: Raddawi,
Rana (ed.) Intercultural Communication with Arabs: Studies in Education,
Professional, and Societal Contexts. New York: Springer.
Forthcoming aFacebook talk: An interactional analysis of Aganaktismenoi Wall discussions. In:
Christodoulidou Maria (ed.) Greek Talk-in-interaction. Newcastle: Cambridge
Scholars Publishing, 262-289.
Forthcoming Diglossia. In: Wright, James (ed.) Elsevier International Encyclopedia of Social
b
and Behavioral Sciences.
Forthcoming cΔιεπιδραστική κοινωνιογλωσσολογία [Interactional sociolinguistics]. Στο:
Γεωργαλίδου, Μαριάνθη, Μαρία Σηφιανού, Βίλλυ Τσάκωνα (επιµ.) Ανάλυση
Λόγου: Θεωρία και Εφαρµογές. Αθήνα: Εκδόσεις Νήσος. In Greek
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Year/Status
Title
2012
Sociolinguistic profile of the Generation of 700 Euros. In: Frangaki, Georgia,
Thanassis Georgakopoulos and Charalambos Themistocleous (eds.) Current
Trends in Greek Linguistics. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp.
177-196.
2010a
A stylistic perspective on Athenian suburbia as a culture of conflicting social
constructities. In: Baumbach, Sibylle (ed.) Regions of Culture – Regions of
Identity. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, pp. 151-174.
2010b
Authentication of the Athenian ‘new-rich’ and ‘new-poor’ suburbanite identities.
In: Parpală, Emilia & Carmen Popescu (eds.) Comunicare, Identitate, Cultură
[Communication, Identity, Culture]. Craiova: Editura Universitaria, pp. 219-232.
2008
Football register formation: The case of Greece’s triumph in EURO 2004. In:
Lavric, Eva & Gerhard Pisek & Andrew Skinner & Wolfgang Stadler (eds.) The
Linguistics of Football (Language in Performance, vol 38). Tübingen: Gunter
Narr, pp. 333-342.
ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Year/Status
Title
2013
With Yasser Mahgoub. The sociolinguistic meanings of traditional architecture:
A study of Qatari traditional architecture. In: Proceedings of the Third National
Built Heritage Forum. Al Madinah, Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia, 8-12
December.
2010a
From style to identity via indexicality. In: Meyerhoff, Miriam, Chie Adachi,
Agata Daleszynska and Anna Strycharz (eds.) The Proceedings of Edinburgh
Summer School of Sociolinguistics 2010. http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/sssocio/
proceedings/Irene.pdf (08/08/2011)
2010b
Stylistic meaning in interaction. In: Proceedings of the i-mean@uwe
Conference (Meaning in Interaction). University of the West of England,
Bristol, 23-25 April 2009. http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/llas/events/0809/i-mean/
conferenceproceedings.pdf (08/08/2011)
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Year/Status
Title
2010c
Parodying northern suburban Athenian speech style. In: Proceedings of the 5th
Athens Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics. University of Athens, 29-31
May 2009. http://athenslinguistics.web.officelive.com/Documents/
Proceedings5.pdf (08/08/2011)
2009a
Speech style as persuasion mechanism. In: Giannakis, Giorgos K. & Mary
Baltazani & Giorgos I. Xydopoulos & Tasos Tsaggalidis (eds.) Proceedings of
the International Conference on Greek Linguistics 8, pp. 489-502. http://
www.linguist-uoi.gr/cd_web/docs/english/037_theodoropoulouICGL_OK.pdf
(08/08/2011)
2009b
Speech style and meta-representations: Acts of (dis)affiliation. In: Weigand,
Edda (ed.) Dialogue Analysis XI. Proceedings of the IADA 11th Conference on
‚Dialogue Analysis and Rhetoric’, University of Münster, March 26-30, 2007.
Volume 2/08, pp. 363-377.
h t t p : / / w w w. u n i - m u e n s t e r. d e / L i n g / i a d a / d o w n l o a d /
iada.online.series_volume02.pdf
(08/08/2011)
2009c
Τρεις στρατηγικές πειθούς και η διδασκαλία τους (Three persuasion strategies
and their teaching) [In Greek]. In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Theatre and
Rhetoric in Education: Shared Dreams and Visions, Athens, 20 December 2008.
http://rhetoricineducation.com/επιµορφωτικές-δράσεις/ (08/08/2011)
2007
Μετάφραση και ιδιολεκτική ποικιλότητα (Translation & idiolectal variability)
[In Greek]. In: Proceedings of the First Meeting of Greek Translatologists.
Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
http://my.enl.auth.gr/translation/PDF/Theodoropoulou.pdf (08/08/2011)
BOOK REVIEWS – BOOK NOTES
Year
Book review
To appear a
Book note on James Collins, Stef Slembrouck & Mike Baynham (eds.) (2009).
Globalization and language contact. Scale, migration, and communicative
practices. London/New York: Continuum. In: Language in Society.
2013a
Book note on David Machin (2010). Analysing Popular Music: Sound, Image,
Text. London: Sage. In: Discourse and Society (24(4), 508-510.
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Year
Book review
2013b
Book review of Alastair Pennycook (2012). Language and Mobility:
Unexpected Places. London & Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. In:
Linguistlist.org http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-2566.html (2/7/2013)
2012a
Book review of Dimitris Koutsogiannis (2011). Digital Literacy Practices and
Identities. Thessaloniki: Center of Hellenic Language. In: Glossologia (in
Greek), pp. 89-93.
2012b
Book note of Abdellah Chekayri (2011). An Introduction to Moroccan Arabic
and Culture. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. In: Elanguage
(http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=2173, posted on 2/7/2012)
2011a
Book review of Bróna Murphy (2010). Corpus and Sociolinguistics.
Investigating age and gender in female talk. In: Elanguage. (http://
www.elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=1933, posted on 9/1/2012)
2011b
Book review of Peter Garrett (2010). Attitudes to Language. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. In: Elanguage. http://elanguage.net/blogs/
booknotices/?m=201111 (posted on 26/11/2011)
2011c
Book review of Graeme Trousdale (2010). An Introduction to English
Sociolinguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. In: Elanguage http://
elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?m=201111 (posted on 29/11/2011)
2010a
Book review of Costas Canakis, Venetia Kantsa & Kostas Yiannakopoulos
(eds.) (2010). Language and Sexuality (through and) beyond Gender.
Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. http://linguistlist.org/pubs/reviews/
get-review.cfm?subid=4529781 (posted on 6/11/2011)
2010b
Book note on Kimberly Jones & Tsuyoshi Ono (eds.) (2008). Style Shifting in
Japanese. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company. In:
Elanguage http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/?p=1684, posted on
11/8/2011)
2010c
Book note on Jennifer Hay, Margaret Maclagan & Elizabeth Gordon (2008).
Dialects of English. New Zealand English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press. In: Language in Society 39(2), pp. 295-296.
2010d
Book note on Paulo Quaglio (2009). Television Dialogue. The sitcom Friends
vs. natural conversation. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing
Company. In: Elanguage (http://elanguage.net/blogs/booknotices/, posted on
21/3/2010)
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Year
Book review
2010e
Book note on Alexandra Jaffe (ed.) (2009) Stance. Sociolinguistic Perspectives.
New York: Oxford University Press. In: Elanguage (http://elanguage.net/blogs/
booknotices/, posted on 18/3/2010)
2008a
Book review of Marjorie Harness Goodwin (2006). The Hidden Life of Girls.
Games of Stance, Status and Exclusion. Malden, Massachusetts, and Oxford,
U.K.: Blackwell Publishers. In: Journal of Sociolinguistics 12(5), pp. 705-9
2008b
Book review of Vally Lytra (2007). Play Frames and Social Identities. Contact
Encounters in a Greek Primary School. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series.
Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. In: Linguistlist http://
www.linguistlist.org/issues/19/19-2105.html (08/08/2011)
NON ACADEMIC BOOKS & OUTPUTS
Year
Title
In
preparati
on
With Yasser Mahgoub, Amal Al Abaidli, Nahed Al Zoabi, Moza Al Thani, Amal
Hourani, Sara Al Sada & Abeer Abou Nadi. An Illustrated Glossary of
Traditional Qatari Architecture. Berkshire, UK: Berkshire Academic Press, Ltd.
In
preparati
on
With Yasser Mahgoub, Amal Al Abaidli, Nahed Al Zoabi, Moza Al Thani, Amal
Hourani, Sara Al Sada & Abeer Abou Nadi. Doha Malwal (Doha in the past).
Bilingual board game in English and Arabic. Berkshire, UK: Berkshire Academic
Press, Ltd.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Year
Award/Honor
2013
Qatar University College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award
2010
Associateship of King’s College London (AKC)
2008
Mary Clark Travel Exhibitions' Travel Award King’s College London
2007
King’s College London Graduate School Roberts Travel Award
2006
St. Edmund’s College Tutorial Award. University of Cambridge.
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Year
Award/Honor
2003
IKY Award (for highest academic performance in the Department of Greek Philology
during the academic years 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003). Greek State
Scholarships Foundation
2000
Municipality of Aghia Paraskevi Award
Entrance in the Department of Philology/University of Athens after successfully
sitting the Panhellenic Exams and achieving the highest grade (6078/6400) among
approximately 3,500 applicants from all over Greece
1999
Award of Achievement. Hellenic Ministry of Education
(SELECTED) CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Year
Conference
2014a
Social class reflections in a superdiverse city: Western expats in Doha, Qatar. Poster
presentation at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 20. Jyväskylä, Finland, 15-18 June.
https://congress.cc.jyu.fi/ss20/schedule/author/authorT.html
2014b
with Yasser Mahgoub. Social semiotics of traditional Qatari architecture: An
interdisciplinary approach. Oral presentation at the Encompassing the Multimodality
of Knowledge Conference. Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 8-10 May. http://
bcom.au.dk/research/conferencesandlectures/encompassing-the-multimodality-ofknowledge/conference-programme-new/
2014c
From utopia to eutopia: Linguistic and multimodal realizations of hope in the
landscape of Qatar. Oral presentation at Linguistic Landscapes 6 Conference.
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, 9-11 April. http://
www.linguisticlandscapes6.co.za/programme.php
2013a
With Yasser Mahgoub, Amal Al Abaidli, Amal Hourani, Nahed Al Zoabi, Sara Al
Sada, Moza Al Thani and Abeer Abu Nadi. The sociolinguistic meanings of
traditional architecture: A study of Qatari traditional architecture. Oral presentation at
the Third National Built Heritage Forum. Al Madinah, Al-Munawwarah, Saudi
Arabia, 8-12 December. http://www.nbhf.org.sa/english/NewsIndexEn.aspx
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Year
Conference
2013b
With Yasser Mahgoub, Amal Al Abaidli, Amal Hourani, Nahed Al Zoabi, Sara Al
Sada, Moza Al Thani and Abeer Abu Nadi. An interdisciplinary approach to study
Qatari traditional architecturePoster presentation at the Qatar Foundation Annual
Research Conference 2013, Doha, Qatar, 24-25 November. http://
www.editorialmanager.com/qf-arc/
2013c
Between offline and online Qatar: Sociolinguistics of global identities and culture(s).
Oral presentation at the 1st ISLE (Post-)Doctoral Spring School "Englishes in a
Multilingual World: New Dynamics of Variation, Contact and Change", University of
Freiburg, 15 – 19 April. http://www.isle-linguistics.org/spring_school/
2012a
Social class from a globalized sociolinguistic perspective: a case study of Qatar. Oral
presentation at the 13th Language and Society Conference. University of Auckland,
28-29 November. http://www.lsnz.org/
2012b
Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi on Facebook. Oral presentation at the
conference ‘Greece in Translation. Oxford University, 5-6 October. http://www.modlangs.ox.ac.uk/gt_programme
2012c
Language, social class, and globalization in contemporary Qatar. Oral presentation (in
absentia) at the conference ‘Ethnography of Communication: The Ways Forward’,
June 10-14, 2012 Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. http://www.cci.utk.edu/
conference/ethnography-communication-ways-forward-1
2012d
Sociolinguistics of the ‘right to the city’: the case of contemporary Athens. Oral
presentation in the panel titled ‘Urban linguistic practice and performance in the
Greek-speaking city’. Sociolinguistics Symposium 19, August 21-24, Freie
Universität Berlin. http://www.sociolinguistics-symposium-2012.de/
2012e
Sociolinguistics of revolution in world’s capital cities: from organization to
realization. Panel in sociolinguistics Symposium 19, August 21-24, Freie Universität
Berlin. http://www.sociolinguistics-symposium-2012.de/
2011a
Qatar’s postmodern culture: Evidence from its (socio)linguistic landscape. Oral
presentation at the Comparativism, Identity, Communication (CIC 2011) International
Conference. University of Craiova, Romania, 21-22 October. http://encls.net/?
q=event/comparativism-identity-communication-cic2011-international-conference
(6/11/2011)
2011b
Sociolinguistic variation in Athenian suburban Greek. Oral presentation at the 10th
International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL). Democritus University of
Thrace, 1-4 September 2011. http://www.icgl.gr/files/!docs/final_prog.pdf
(6/11/2011)
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Year
Conference
2011c
with Andwatta Barnes & Abdou Ndoye & Sam Meekings (2011). Assessing second
language learners’ critical thinking skills in Higher education. Oral presentation at the
2011 Qatar (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages) TESOL
Conference on April 8-9 2011 at the College of North Atlantic. Doha. http://
www.qatartesol.org/conference.html (25/9/2011)
2010a
Meta-representations of Athenian Suburban Social Classes: A Discursive Analytical
Approach. Oral presentation at the Faculty Presentation series of the Department of
English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar University, 8 December. http://
www.qu.edu.qa/artssciences/english/events/index.php (25/9/2011)
2010b
Sociolinguistic variation and social class in contemporary Athens, Greece. Oral
presentation in the Panel ‘Explaining Class’. NWAV 39, San Antonio, Texas, 4-6
November 2010. http://colfa.utsa.edu/nwav39/program.html (25/9/2011)
2010c
Between popular and actual culture: Style across genres. Oral presentation at the
Sociolinguistics Symposium 18. Southampton, UK, 1-4 September 2010http://
www.southampton.ac.uk/ss18/programme/PROGRAMME%20full%20booklet.pdf
(25/9/2011)
2010d
‘Thanks everyone for your wishes’. A typology of politeness stylistic features in the
reception of birthday wishes on Facebook. Oral presentation at the Fifth International
Symposium on Politeness. University of Basel, Switzerland, 30 June – 2 July. http://
www.sympol.unibas.ch/?Programme (25/9/2011)
2009a
Stylization in Athenian Greek: A Case Study of Western Suburbanites Stylizing
Northern Suburbanites. Oral presentation at the 9th International Conference on Greek
Linguistics. University of Chicago, 29-31 October. http://www.ling.ohio-state.edu/
~joseph/ICGL/ICGL_program_v1.pdf (9/10/2009)
2009b
Double-voicing in Modern Greek. Oral presentation at the 12th International
Conference on Dialogue Analysis: Polyphony and Intertextuality in Discourse.
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, 15-18 September. http://www.upf.edu/dtf/
activita/IADA2009/index.html (6/10/2009)
2009c
Interactional variation in Athenian Greek. Invited oral presentation at the 5th
International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 5). Copenhagen,
25-27 June. http://iclave5.nfi.ku.dk/programme/ (27/4/2009)
2009d
Stylistic meaning in interaction. Oral presentation at the i-mean@uwe Conference
(Meaning in Interaction). University of the West of England, Bristol, 23-25 April.
http://www.uwe.ac.uk/hlss/llas/events/0809/i-mean/programme.shtml (27/4/2009)
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Year
Conference
2008a
Popular culture representations of suburban Athens: Τhe case of Northern suburbs.
Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference in the Humanities & Social
Sciences: Revisiting the 'Urban' and the 'Rural': Spatial Representations and Practices.
Luxembourg, 4-5 December. http://www.humanites-associees.lu/conference/
(24/11/2008)
2008b
Constructing gender in Greek popular culture: The case of Northern suburban
Athenian women. Paper presented at the Postgraduate Conference: Gender and
Identity in Contemporary Greece. Oxford University, 18 October. http://
historyfeminism.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/conference-gender-and-identity-ingreece/ (24/11/2008)
2008c
Indexicality, style and conversation. Presentation at the Sociolinguisticsfest 2008
Workshop. University of Indiana in Bloomington, 13 June. http://
jones.ling.indiana.edu/~socfest/workshop/workshopspeakers.html (18/5/2008)
2008d
Stylization as a mechanism for denaturalizing identity. Presentation at the Arizona
Linguistics & Anthropology Symposium. University of Arizona in Tucson, 9-11 May.
http://linguistics.arizona.edu/azanli/Final%20AZANLI%202008%20Conference
%20Schedule.pdf (18/5/2008)
2008e
Social class construction through speech style: Evidence from Modern Greek.
Presentation at the Sociolinguistics Symposium 17: Micro and Macro Connections.
Amsterdam, 3-5 April. http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/ss17/contributions/
timetable.php?date=4 (24/11/2008)
2008f
Athenian suburban speech style(s): Kifisia vs. Peristeri. Invited presentation at the
Modern Greek Section Graduate Seminar 2008, held at the Faculty of Modern &
Medieval Languages, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, 17 January. http://
www.mml.cam.ac.uk/greek/courses/pgrad/MG%20Cambridge%20Graduate
%20seminar%202008.pdf (24/11/2008)
2007a
Where IS and VS meet: The case of speech style. Oral presentation at the 8th
International Conference on Greek Linguistics. University of Ioannina, 26-29 August.
http://www.linguist-uoi.gr/files/8icgl-programme.pdf (24/11/2008)
2007b
Speech style as persuasion mechanism. Oral presentation at the 11th International
Conference on Dialogue Analysis and Rhetoric. Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität
Münster, 26-30 March. http://www.uni-muenster.de/Ling/iada_x/DA11/ (24/11/2008)
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Year
Conference
2007c
The use of interjections in comics. Invited poster presentation at the Georgetown
University Round Table 2007 “Little Words: Their History, Phonology, Semantics,
Pragmatics, and Acquisition. Washington, DC, 8-11 March. http://
www8.georgetown.edu/college/gurt/2007/program.htm (24/11/2008)
2007d
On the interaction between questionhood and politeness: Evidence from intonation.
Poster presented in absentia at the 2007 International Conference on Linguistics in
Korea. Seoul, 19-20 January. http://www.linguistics.or.kr/ICLK-2007/ (18/5/2007)
2006
A comparative study between SBE and Standard Greek Question Intonation: barriers
of Politeness. Oral presentation at the LangUE 2006, 30 June, University of Essex.
http://www.essex.ac.uk/linguistics/department/events/langue/2006/programme.aspx
(1/2/2013)
COURSES TAUGHT AT QATAR UNIVERSITY
Introduction to Language
Introduction to Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics (Honors)
Language & Gender
Language & Society
Seminar in Language & Linguistics: Sociolinguistics of Computer-Mediated Discourse (4th year
students)
Topics in Linguistics: Bilingualism (4th year students)
Discourse Analysis (4th year students)
History of English (3rd year students)
Capstone Integrated Skills (Sociolinguistics)
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SCHOLARSHIPS
Year
Scholarship
2009
Bursary (registration fee waiver) from the Organizing Committee of the
Sociolinguistics Symposium 18
2009
The New York Institute Minigrant
2008-2010
Alexander Onassis Scholarship. Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit
Foundation
2008
Scholarship from the International Federation of Arts Councils & Culture
Agencies (IFACCA)
2007-2009
Foundation for Education and European Culture (Ίδρυµα Παιδείας και
Ευρωπαϊκού Πολιτισµού) Scholarship
2007-2010
Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) Scholarship
2006
Department of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies Library Studentship
2006/2007. King’s College London.
2005
Sophia Savvidou’ Scholarship. Alumni Association of Filekpedeftiki Etaireia
Schools (SAFE)
2005
Alexander Onassis Scholarship. Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit
Foundation
2005
University of Edinburgh UK/EU Master’s Scholarship (declined)
2005
George and Marie Vergottis Cambridge Bursary
2004
The International Summer Program of 2004 - University of Vienna
Scholarship
2002
Herder Scholarship for studies in linguistics at the University of Vienna,
Austria, after recommendation of Professor Georgios Babiniotis, former
Rector of the University of Athens and holder of the Herder Prize 2002.
2000-2004
IKY Scholarship. Greek State Scholarships Foundation
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WORK AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2009 - 2010
Modern Greek language teacher (GCSE level) at the St. Cyprian
Greek-Cypriot Community School in London, UK
Freelance researcher for the Oxbridge Research Group
(sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, Modern
Greek language)
Language reviewer for Medefield
2007 - 2010
Tutor in Linguistics, Ancient Greek, Latin and Modern Greek.
Cambridge Blue Tutors
2007
Library assistant. Maughan Library, King’s College London. Greek
title cataloguing
2005
Member of research team investigating the pronunciation of –r- in
Boston area. Conducting interviews with native Cambridge, MA
firemen, processing the interview transcripts with VARBRUL. This
work has been done during June – August 2005 in the framework of the
summer course “Introduction to Sociolinguistics”, given by Penelope
Eckert and Norma Mendoza – Denton in the Linguistics Society of
America Summer Biannual Institute, held in Harvard/MIT
Member of research team investigating and codifying Bima language
(Nggahi Mbojo), which belongs to the Austronesian languages and is
being spoken in East Samoa Islands in Indonesia. My team’s task was to
interview a native speaker of that language and try to elicit as much
grammatical and pragmatic information as we can, in order to create a
Bima – English lexicon (Shoebox/Toolbox) and a Grammar. Apart from
that, I have conducted a small research concerning politeness vs.
rudeness formations in Bima language (June-August 2005)
2003 - 2005
Member of research team of the program with title: ‘Design and
development of flexible systems of digital management of lingual
resources with application in the Greek and Latin Language’ (October
2003-June 2005). Instructor: Professor Maria Voutsinou – Kikilia,
University of Athens)
Instructor of Rhetorical Art in the Evening Groups of Arsakeia and
Tositseia Schools in Athens, Greece (October 2003 – June 2005)
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ΑCADEMIC SERVICE
2013 - today
2012 - today
2011 - today
2012
2012 - today
2010 - today
2010 - 2011
2008 – 2009
2008
2006 – 2008
2007
2006
Member of the Qatar University College of Arts and Sciences
Research Committee
Member of the Academic Program Review Committee (Department
of English Literature & Linguistics)
Member of the Faculty Annual Review Committee (Department of
English Literature & Linguistics)
Reviewer for Language Policy Journal
Member of the Editorial Board of the Arab World English Journal
Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Applied
Linguistics and English Literature
Member of the Organizing Committee of the Symposium titled
’Emerging Research Trends in Literature and Linguistics’, organized
by the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar
University, on the 18th of April.
Chair of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics
Outreach Committee
Chair of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics
Program Learning Outcomes Committee
Member of the committee responsible for the Strategic Plan of the
Department of English Literature and Linguistics, Qatar University
Member of the Assessment Committee of the Department of English
Literature and Linguistics, Qatar University
Member of the ‘Distinguished Lecture Series and Distinguished
Professorships’ committee in the Department of English Literature &
Linguistics, Qatar University
Member of the organizing committee of the conference ‘Linguistics
in the Gulf 3’, 6-7 March 2011
Research student representative in the Department of Byzantine &
Modern Greek Studies (King’s College London)
Co-organizer of the Workshop on Theatre and Rhetoric in Education:
Shared Dreams and Visions, Athens, 20 December 2008. http://
rhetoricineducation.com/επιµορφωτικές-δράσεις/
Research Students Representative in the Language, Discourse and
Communication Centre Management Group (King’s College
London)
Coordinator of the Modern Greek Studies Postgraduate Seminar at
the Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies Department, King’s College
London
Treasurer in the CamLing 2006 Organizing Committee, Cambridge
University
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JOURNAL REVIEWING
Language Policy, Arab World English Journal, International Journal of Applied Linguistics and
English Literature
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Hellenic Association for the Promotion of Rhetoric in Education – cofounder and member
Linguistic Society of America - member
British Association for Applied Linguistics – member
UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum - member
International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA) - member
Cambridge University Linguistics Society - member
Hellenic Society for Terminology (ELETO) - member
International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) - member
Onassis Scholars Association - member
SUMMER SCHOOLS
2010
International Summer School: Sociolinguistic Perspectives (University of
Copenhagen, Denmark)
Coursework in sociolinguistics
Summer School of Sociolinguistics (University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Coursework in sociolinguistics
2009
The New York – St. Petersburg Institute of Linguistics, Cognition and Culture
(St. Petersburg, Russia)
St. Petersburg State University
State University of New York (SUNY)
Coursework in language and gender and in language and music
2008
Summer School ‘Regions of Culture – Regions of Identity’
University of Giessen, University of Marburg (Giessen/Marburg, Germany)
Coursework in cultural geography and cultural studies
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2005
Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S & Haus Rissen – International Institute for
Politics and Economics (Hamburg, Germany)
Coursework in European politics
2004
International Summer Program of 2004
University of Vienna (Strobl, Austria)
Certificate with distinction in European art, history, contemporary politics
2003
Civic Concepts International - International Youth Leadership Conference
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Participation in a week-long youth forum on world politics, international
relations and justice
Catholic University of Lublin – 10th Central European Summer School in
Generative Grammar (Lublin, Poland)
Coursework in phonology, semantics, syntax, language and mind
LANGUAGES
Greek
native
English
second language
German
advanced
Ancient Greek
advanced (reading and translation skills)
Latin
advanced (reading and translation skills)
Modern Standard Arabic
elementary
Turkish
Russian
basic
basic
Bima
fieldwork
COMPUTER SKILLS
Word 2007, Power Point 2003, Excel, Varbrul, Praat, SPSS, Shoebox/Toolbox, Blackboard
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