Katerina Finnis
List of John Benjamins publications for which Katerina Finnis plays a role.
Articles
2013 Creating a ‘new space’: Code-switching among British-born Greek-Cypriots in London Space for all? European perspectives on minority languages and identity, Archer, Dawn, Christopher Williams and Paul Fryer (eds.), pp. 137–157 | Article
This paper, located in the traditions of Interactional Sociolinguistics (Gumperz 1982) and Social Constructionism (Berger and Luckmann 1966), explores code-switching and identity practices amongst British-born Greek-Cypriots. The speakers, members of a Greek-Cypriot youth organization, are fluent… read more
2009 Code-switching ‘in site’ for fantasizing identities: A case study of conventional uses of London Greek Cypriot Language, discourse and identities: Snapshot from Greek contexts, Georgakopoulou, Alexandra and Vally Lytra (eds.), pp. 467–488 | Article
Sociolinguistic studies of ‘minority languages’ and bilingualism have increasingly moved away from a singular emphasis on issues of ethnicity that poses direct links between the use of a language and an ethnic or cultural identity towards exploring the construction of identities that are not… read more