Maria Christodoulidou

List of John Benjamins publications for which Maria Christodoulidou plays a role.

Articles

Christodoulidou, Maria 2012 Chapter 2. Conversational irony: Evaluating complaintsSpaces of Polyphony, Lorda, Clara Ubaldina and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (eds.), pp. 25–42 | Chapter
This chapter is concerned with ironic assessments in spontaneous Cypriot-Greek conversations. The phenomenon is studied here by a close examination of ironic assessments in the specific context of naturally occurring complaint sequences where the speaker is complaining about a non-present party’s… read more
Christodoulidou, Maria 2008  Siga in interactionPragmatics 18:2, pp. 189–213 | Article
This study is an investigation of a conventionalized ironic marker in spontaneous Cypriot-Greek conversations. Specifically it examines the lexical item siga, which translates variously as “like hell”, “yeah right”, “big deal”. For the analysis of siga, this study will rely on the insights offered… read more