Publications

          Books

    1.   (2005, ed.) An English-Greek Dictionary of False Friends / Αγγλοελληνικό Λεξικό Ψευδόφιλων Μονάδων. Athens: Athens University Press. xxiii+346pp. (ISBN9606608417)
    2.   (under contract, ed.) The Languages of Global Hip-hop. London: Continuum.

        Journal articles
  1. (under review) ‘Thank you, Sorry and Please in Cypriot Greek: What happens to politeness markers when they are borrowed across languages?’ Journal of Pragmatics (special issue on Postcolonial Pragmatics).
  2. (2007a) Perceptions of difference in the Greek sphere: the case of Cyprus. Journal of Greek Linguistics 8, 60-96.
  3. (2007b) ‘Speaking of pain in Greek: implications for the cognitive permeation of emotions.’ (with Persefoni Bali). Cognition and Emotion 21:8, 1745-1779.
  4. (2005a) ‘Understanding the present through the past: processes of koineisation on Cyprus’. Diachronica 22:2, 309-372.
  5. (2005b) ‘Beyond the micro-level in politeness research. Journal of Politeness Research 1:2, 237-262.
  6. (2005c) ‘Identity and semantic change: aspects of T/V usage in Cyprus’. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:2, 283-306.
  7. (2004) ‘Testing Brown and Levinson's theory in a corpus of conversational data from Cypriot Greek’. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 168, 119-134.
  8. (2002) ‘Politeness and formulaicity: evidence from Cypriot Greek’. Journal of Greek Linguistics 3, 179-201.
  9. (1999) ‘Frames for politeness: A case study’. Pragmatics 9:1, 97-117.(abstract)

Refereed book chapters

  1. (forthcoming a, with Ann Copestake) ‘Conventional speech act formulae: from corpus findings to formalization.’ In: Kühnlein, Peter and Anton Benz (eds.) Proceedings of Constraints in Discourse. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  2. (forthcoming b, with Stefanos Petrakis) ‘A critical look at the desktop metaphor 25 years on.’ In: Cameron, Lynne (ed.) Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World. Human Cognitive Processing series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (abstract)
  3. (forthcoming c) What use is what is said? In: Kissine, Mikhail and Philippe de Brabanter (eds.) Proceedings of  the 1st Brussels Workshop on Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models. Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface series. Amsterdam: Emerald.
  4. (forthcoming d) ‘On de-limiting context. In: Bergs, Alexander and Gabriele Diewald (eds.) Context in construction grammar. Constructional Approaches to Language series. Amsterdam: John Benjamins (abstract)
  5. (forthcoming e)  ‘Finding face between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: Greek perceptions of the in-group.’ In: Haugh, Michael and Francesca Bargiela-Chiappini (eds.) Face, communication, and social interaction. London: Equinox. (abstract)
  6. (2008) ‘Toward a unified theory of politeness, impoliteness, and rudeness. In: Bousfield, Derek and Miriam Locher (eds.) Impoliteness in language: studies on its interplay with power in theory and practice. Language, Power and Social Process Series. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 45-74. (abstract)
  7. (2007) ‘Toward a universal notion of face for a universal notion of co-operation.’ In: Kecskes, Istvan and Laurence Horn (eds.) Explorations in pragmatics: Linguistic, cognitive and intercultural aspects. Mouton Series in Pragmatics 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 313-344. (abstract)
  8. (2005a) ‘An argument for a frame-based approach to politeness: evidence from the use of the imperative in Cypriot Greek’. In: Lakoff, Robyn & Sachiko Ide (eds.) Broadening the horizon of linguistic politeness. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 139. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.99-116. (abstract)
  9. (2005b) ‘Pragmatic correlates of frequency of use: the case for a notion of 'minimal context'’. In: Nikiforidou, Kiki, Marmaridou, Sophia & Eleni Antonopoulou (eds.) Reviewing linguistic thought: Converging trends for the 21st century. Trends in Linguistics 116. Berlin: de Gruyter. 209-233.(abstract)
  10. (2005c) ‘Politeness in Cyprus’. In: Hickey, Leo & Miranda Stewart (eds.) Politeness in Europe. Multilingual Matters 127. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 277-291 (invited book contribution)
  11. (2005d) ‘Εισαγωγή / Introduction’. In: Terkourafi, Marina (ed.) An English-Greek Dictionary of False Friends / Αγγλοελληνικό Λεξικό Ψευδόφιλων Μονάδων. Athens: Athens University Press. ix-xxii.
  12. (2003) ‘Generalised and particularised implicatures of linguistic politeness’. In: Kühnlein, Peter, Rieser Hannes & Henk Zeevat (eds.) Perspectives on dialogue in the new millennium. Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 114. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 149-164.

Proceedings & working papers

  1. (forthcoming a) ‘Η κυπριακή γενική στις μεσαιωνικές πηγές’ [The Cypriot genitive in the medieval sources]. Proceedings of the 4th International Congress of Cypriot Studies. Lefkosia: Society for Cypriot Studies.
  2. (forthcoming b) ‘On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek: language contact or internal evolution?’ (with Ioanna Sitaridou) Proceedings of the XVIII Internactiional Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6-11 August 2007. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
  3. (in press a) ‘Languages in Venetian Cyprus.’ In: Nicolaou-Konnari, Aggel (ed.) Proceedings of the Symposium La Serenissima e la Nobilissma: Venice in Cyprus and Cyprus in Venice. Lefkosia: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation.
  4. (in press b) Speech act formulae: degrees of conventionalisation in a lexicalist account. (with Valia Kordoni). Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference of Greek Linguistics, University of York, 8-10 September 2005.
  5. (in press c) ‘Three levels in politeness practice and research’. Proceedings of the International Conference on Language, Politeness and Gender, (Helsinki, 2-5 September 2004). Helsinki: Nordica.
  6. (2006a) The interplay of social and regional variation in Cyprus: a diachronic perspective’. In: Janse, Mark, Joseph, Brian,  & Ralli, Aggeliki (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory. University of Patras. 379-394.
  7. (2006b) Conventional speech act formulae: from corpus findings to formalization (with Ann Copestake) In: Candy Sidner, John Harpur, Anton Benz & Peter Kühnlein (eds.) Proceedings of the Workshop on Constraints in Discourse, July 7–9, 2006, National University of Ireland, Maynooth. 51-58.
  8. (2006c) ‘Conventional speech act formulae in HPSG’ (with Ann Copestake) In: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar, Varna, Bulgaria (24-27 July 2006).
  9. (2005) ‘Socialising Grice: on interlocutors’ reasons for co-operating in conversation’. Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics (COPiL) 2. 235-247.
  10. (2004a) ‘Politeness and cooperation: the view from Cypriot Greek’. Studies in Greek Linguistics 24. Thessaloniki: Kyriakides. 682-692. (abstract)
  11. (2004b) ‘The Cypriot koine: a recent development? Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Greek Linguistics, Rethymnon, 18-21 September 2003. Rethymno: Linguistics Lab. CD-Rom (ISBN: 960-88268-0-2).
  12. (2003) ‘Toward a formalisation of speech act functions of questions in conversation’ (with Aline Villavicencio) In: Bernardi, Raffaella & Michael Moortgat (eds.) Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives. Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. 108-119. (abstract)
  13. (2002) ‘Contextualising politeness: toward a psychologically plausible account’. In: Clairis, Christos (ed.) Recherches en linguistique grecque: actes du 5e colloque international de linguistique grecque (Sorbonne, 13-15 September 2001). Paris: L’Harmattan. 239-242. (abstract in Greek)
  14. (2001a) ‘The distinction between generalised and particularised implicatures and linguistic politeness’. In: Kühnlein, Peter, Hannes Rieser & Henk Zeevat (eds.) Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on the Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue. Bielefeld: ZiF. 174-188. (abstract)
  15. (2001b) ‘The use of the plural in expressing politeness in Cypriot Greek conversations’. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Nicosia, 17-19 September 1999. 462-470. (abstract)
  16. (2000) ‘Some preliminary remarks on the universality of politeness strategies based on evidence from Cypriot Greek’. In: Papers in Linguistics from the University of Manchester.Vol. 7. 226-240. (abstract)

Encyclopedia entries

  1. (2008 a) ‘Politeness.’ In: Chapman, Siobhan and Christopher Routledge (eds.) Key ideas in linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  2. (2008 b) ‘Conventional meaning.’ In: Chapman, Siobhan and Christopher Routledge (eds.) Key ideas in linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  3. (2008 c) ‘Emic/Etic.’ In: Chapman, Siobhan and Christopher Routledge (eds.) Key ideas in linguistics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  4. (2009) ‘Conventionality.’ In: Cummings, Louise (ed.) The Pragmatics Encyclopedia. London: Routledge

Book reviews

  1. (2008) Review of Constructions of intersubjectivity: discourse, syntax, and cognition, by Arie Verhagen (2005). Oxford: Oxford University Press. Journal of Pragmatics 40:8, 1478-1485.
  2. (2006) Review of Politeness, by Richard Watts (2003). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Pragmatics 38:3, 418-428.
  3. (2004) Review of Linguistic Politeness across boundaries: the case of Greek and Turkish, edited by Arın Bayraktaroğlu & Maria Sifianou (2001). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. Language in Society 33:2, 303-307 (invited review article)
  4. (2003a) Review of The semantics/pragmatics interface from different points of view, edited by Ken Turner (1999). Oxford: Elsevier Science. Journal of Pragmatics 35:2, 307-313.
  5. (2003b) Review of Formulaic language and the lexicon, by Alison Wray (2002). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Pragmatics 35:10-11, 1721-1726.