Dimitra Filippou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Dimitra Filippou is involved.
Articles
2026 Metapragmatics of verbal aggression and workplace conflict: Evidence from Greek private-sector organisations Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict: Online-First Articles | Article
This study advances a participant-anchored, metapragmatic account of conflict triggering in Greek private-sector workplaces. It conceptualises escalation not as a direct outcome of harsh wording but as a rights-based process through which speakers publicly contest one another’s interactional… read more
Navigating the continuum of harmful speech: Racist discourse and the escalation to violence on social media Pragmatics and Society: Online-First Articles | Article
This article examines escalation in racist discourse on Greek X by tracing two recurrent formulations:
δεν ακούς ελληνικά
(‘you don’t hear any Greek’) and
καθαρίστε την Ελλάδα
(‘clean Greece’). The dataset comprises 180 publicly accessible posts (May 2012–January… read more