• Vasiliki Tsakona

    Basic Information:

    Title: Professor
    Area of Specialization: Social and educational approaches to language

    Contact details:

    Phone No: +30-210 3688506
    E-mail:      vtsakona@ecd.uoa.gr , villytsa@otenet.gr

    Full cv: http://www.concept-pl.us/villy.tsakona

     

    Office hours: Announced in the beginning of each semester
    Contact address: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Department of Early Childhood Education, Navarinou 13a, Athens 106 80.

    Academic information

    Education
    • 2004 D. in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Thesis title: “Humor in written narratives: A linguistic approach”. [in Greek]
    • 2000 A. in Applied Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Dissertation title: “Jokes in communication: A pragmatic analysis”. [in Greek]
    • 1996 BA in Greek Philology (Major in Linguistics), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

     
    Research interests
    • Humor theory and the analysis of humorous genres
    • Narrative analysis
    • Political and media discourse analysis
    • Discourse and the construction of identities
    • Critical literacy: Theory and applications
    • Language planning and language policy

     
    Courses and Seminars Undergraduate

    • Introduction to linguistics (709, former Language, Society and Cognition)
    • Critical literacy (721, former Language and education)
    • Sociolinguistics (722)
    • Text linguistics (723)
    • Issues in language policy (724)

     
    Graduate

    • Texts and identities, in the MA program “Education and Human Rights”

     
    Selected Publications
    • [2024] Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor. Topics in Humor Research 12. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
    • [2024] Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between Antiracist and Racist Discourse [co-edited with Argiris Archakis]. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 341. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
    • [2024] Discussing about Liquid Racism in Educational Settings: Teaching Proposals in the Framework of Critical Literacy. Athens: MA “Education and Human Rights”, Department of Early Childhood Education, NKUA & TRACE project: “Tracing Racism to Anti-Racist Discourse: A Critical Approach to European Public Speech on the Migrant and Refugee Crisis”. https://trace2019.wixsite.com/trace-project/semester-assignments-on-postgraduate-course [in Greek]
    • [2024] «About real refugees»: A critical analysis of the representations and evaluations of Ukrainian refugees in the Greek press [co-authored with Maria Michali]. Glossologia 31, 81-100. [in Greek]
    • [2024] Liquid racism in Greek online satirical news. European Journal of Humor Research 12 (1), 135-156.
    • [2024] “Loanword translation and corrective acts are incongruous”: Debating metapragmatic stereotypes through humorous memes. In B. Priego-Valverde (ed.), Interactional Humor: Multimodal Design and Negotiation. Boston: Mouton De Gruyter, 319-354.
    • [2023] Tracing the Infiltration of Racism in Antiracist Discourse: Studies in Liquid Racism [co-edited with A. Archakis & R. Karachaliou]. Athens: Pedio. [in Greek]
    • [2023] Online satirical news as instances of liquid racism: Evidence from Greek. University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series 13 (1), 92‒107.
    • [2023] Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor: Evidence from adult L2 learners’ humorous narratives [co-authored with S. Gasteratou]. Pragmatics and Society 14 (3), 461-483.
    • [2023] “The girl is on fire!”: Interactional humor in YouTube comments on the Notre Dame disaster [co-authored with Jan Chovanec]. In E. Linares Bernabéu (ed.), The Pragmatics of Humor in Interactive Contexts. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 87-107.
    • [2022-2023] Elementary school immigrant students’ hate rhetoric against refugee populations [co-authored with N. Panagaki & A. Archakis]. Glossologia 30, 117-140. [in Greek]
    • [2022] Comics as narratives. In M. Kakavoulia & P. Politis (eds.), Narrative: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Athens: Gutenberg, 243-275. [in Greek]
    • [2022] Language and identity [co-authored with A. Archakis]. In D. Goutsos & S. Bella (eds.), Sociolinguistics. Athens: Gutenberg, 233-266. [in Greek]
    • [2022] “It is necessary to try our best to learn the language”: A Greek case study of internalized racism in antiracist discourse [co-authored with A. Archakis]. Journal of International Migration and Integration 23 (1), 161-182.
    • [2021] The humorous rewriting of Orwell’s 1984: The Greek version. European Journal of Humor Research 9 (4), 58-73.
    • [2021] Greek migrant jokes online: A diachronic-comparative study on racist humorous representations [co-authored with A. Archakis]. Internet Pragmatics 4 (1), 28-51.
    • [2021] From the illegal migrant-criminal to the illegal migrant-invader: Critical analysis of the semantic change of the Greek term λαθρομετανάστης ‘illegal migrant’ [co-authored with N. Stamatinis & A. Archakis]. Studies in Communication Sciences 21 (2), 343-360.
    • [2021] “Did you hear the crunch sound?”: Humor and metapragmatic stereotypes in the Greek Master Chef contest [co-authored with V. Tsami]. Journal of Pragmatics 172, 197-214.
    • [2020] Recontextualizing Humor: Rethinking the Analysis and Teaching of Humor. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
    • [2020] Intertextuality and Humor [co-edited with J. Chovanec]. European Journal of Humor Research 8 (3), 1-136.
    • [2020] Tracing the trajectories of contemporary online joking. Media Linguistics 7 (2), 169-183.
    • [2020] Liquid racism in the Greek anti-racist campaign #StopMindBorders [co-authored with R. Karachaliou & A. Archakis]. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 8 (2), 232-261.
    • [2020] “They are like we are”: Migrants’ identities and positive representations in narratives from the official webpage of the International Organization for Migration [co-authored with R. Aliai]. Glossologia 28, 97-118. [in Greek]
    • [2020] Victor Raskin’s overlooked analysis of political jokes. In S. Attardo (ed.), Script-based Semantics: Foundations and Applications. Essays in Honor of Victor Raskin. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 139-165.
    • [2020] The critical analysis of humorous discourse: Investigating the role of humor in texts referring to migrants [co-authored with A. Archakis]. In S. Boukala & A. G. Stamou (eds.), Critical Discourse Analysis: (De)Constructing Greek Reality. Athens: Nissos, 557-588. [in Greek]
    • [2019] Vocatives in service encounters: Evidence from Greek [co-authored with M. Sifianou]. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics 51 (1), 60-89.
    • [2019] Talking about humor, racism, and anti-racism in class: A critical literacy proposal. Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies 12 (61) (2), 111-141.
    • [2019] Racism in recent Greek migrant jokes [co-authored with A. Archakis]. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 32 (2), 267-287.
    • [2019] “I feel Greek in Canada, in Greece I don’t feel Greek”: The identity of the stranger in Greek immigrants in Canada [co-authored with R. Karachaliou, A. Archakis & A. Ralli]. In A. Ralli (ed.), Language and Immigration: The Language of Greek Immigrants in Canada. Patras Working Papers in Linguistics 5, 83-102. [in Greek]



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