Sofia Lampropoulou | John Benjamins

Lampropoulou, Sofia 2024 Chapter 11. Epilogue Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona (eds.), pp. 277–282 | Chapter

This epilogue brings together the studies of this volume by drawing attention to the ‘liquidity’ of liquid racism and its operationalizations. Drawing upon two anecdotes from the UK migration context, it underscores the hazy boundaries of racism and antiracism and the embeddedness of antiracism… read more

Lampropoulou, Sofia and Paige Johnson 2024 Chapter 8. “Wouldn’t it be better for me to earn my own money and pay taxes?”: Liquid racism and the ‘ideal’ refugee in UK charity representations of migrant stories Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona (eds.), pp. 202–224 | Chapter

This study concentrates on migrant representations in stories posted on the websites of UK charity organizations. Drawing upon critical discourse analytic and narrative positioning tools, we examine migrant identity navigation in the past and present that, predominantly, leads to the… read more

Montiel-McCann, Camila, Sofia Lampropoulou, Paul Cooper and Rachel Byrne 2024 日本言語政策学会 / Japan Association for Language Policy. 言語政策 / Language
Policy 10. 2014: Counterhegemonic gender identity in the enregisterment of the Scouse bird persona Journal of Language and Pop Culture: Online-First Articles | Article

Scouse and Scousers are highly recognisable within the UK, with research revealing longstanding associations with white, urban, working-class male speakers. However, Scouse identity is increasingly associated with a feminine persona: the Scouse bird. Research thus far focuses on recognisable… read more

Ekiert, Monika, Sofia Lampropoulou, Andrea Révész and Eivind Torgersen 2018 Chapter 10. The effects of task type and L2 proficiency on discourse appropriacy in oral task performance Task-Based Approaches to Teaching and Assessing Pragmatics, Taguchi, Naoko and YouJin Kim (eds.), pp. 247–263 | Chapter

Conceived within the TBLT framework, the present study examined pedagogic tasks as vehicles for demonstrating L2 learners’ discourse appropriacy in oral production. Eighty ESL learners’ discourse appropriacy was measured using three pragmatically-oriented task types (complaint, refusal, and advice)… read more