Publications
Tsakona, Villy. 2021. The humorous rewriting of Orwell’s 1984: The Greek version. The European Journal of Humour Research 9 (4) : 58–73.
Tsakona, Villy. 2020. Revisiting intertextuality and humour: Fresh perspectives on a classic topic. The European Journal of Humour Research 8 (3) : 1–15.
Tsakona, Villy. 2017. “This is not a political party, this is Facebook!”: Political jokes and political (mis)trust in crisisridden Greece. The European Journal of Humour Research 5 (4) : 136–157.
Tsakona, Villy. 2015. “The doctor said I suffer from Vitamin € deficiency”. Investigating the multiple social functions of Greek Crisis jokes. Pragmatics 25 (2) : 287–313.
Tsakona, Villy. 2013. Okras and the metapragmatic stereotypes of humour. Towards an expansion of the GTVH. In : 25–48.
Tsakona, Villy. 2012. The Greek state and the plaster cast: From the Greek military junta of 21 April 1967 to the IMF and EU's rescue mechanism. Metaphor and the Social World 2 (1) : 61–86.
Tsakona, Villy, ed. 2011. Studies in Political Humour. In between political critique and public entertainment. (Discourse approaches to Politics, Society and Culture 46). John Benjamins.
Tsakona, Villy. 2011. Irony beyond criticism: Evidence from Greek parliamentary discourse. Pragmatics and Society 2 (1) : 7–86.
Tsakona, Villy. 2010. ‘The wolf wakes up inside them, grows werewolf hair and reveals all their bullying’: The representation of parliamentary discourse in Greek newspapers. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (4) : 912–923.
Tsakona, Villy. 2009. Humor and image politics in parliamentary discourse: a Greek case study. Text & Talk 29 (2) : 219–237.
Tsakona, Villy. 2009. Language and image interaction in cartoons: Towards a multimodal theory of humor. Journal of Pragmatics 41 (6) : 1171–1188.
Tsakona, Villy. 2009. Parliamentary discourse in newspaper articles: The integration of a critical approach to media discourse into a literacy-based language teaching programme. Journal of Language and Politics 8 (3) : 359–385.