Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens
Irene Theodoropoulou
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 57] 2014. xiv, 240 pp.
Irene Theodoropoulou
List of John Benjamins publications for which Irene Theodoropoulou plays a role.
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Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2025 Chapter 15. Translanguaging the hero online: A case study on language ecology in praising Qatar’s Emir during the 2017–2021 blockade World Englishes in their Local Multilingual Ecologies, Siemund, Peter, Gardy Stein and Manuela Vida-Mannl (eds.), pp. 336–364 | Chapter
This interdisciplinary chapter focuses on the digital translanguaging practices of Qatar-based people’s construction of H.H. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the current Emir of Qatar, as a hero during the blockade that was imposed on the country in June 2017 and lasted until January 2021. A… read more
2023 Interacting comparatively: A study of metaphors and proverbs among the Qatari, Palestinian and Tunisian dialects Metaphor and the Social World 13:2, pp. 145–177 | Article
Metaphors and proverbs are an indispensable sociocultural aspect of language. In this paper, we look at the sociocultural linguistic heterogeneity codified through metaphors and proverbs among three Arabic dialects, namely the Qatari, the Palestinian, and the Tunisian ones. The corpora of… read more
2015 Politeness on Facebook: The case of Greek birthday wishes Relational work in Facebook and discussion boards/fora, Locher, Miriam A., Brook Bolander and Nicole Höhn (eds.), pp. 23–45 | Article
Facebook forms one of the most widely used online social networks, through which people manage their communication with diverse contacts or ‘friends’, ranging from members of the family and schoolmates to work colleagues and popular cultural idols or other people, whom they admire. Hence, it can… read more