• Vasiliki Tsakona

    Basic Information:

    Title: Associate Professor
    Area of Specialization: Social and educational approaches to language

    Contact details:

    Phone No: +30-210 3688506
    E-mail:      vtsakona@ecd.uoa.gr , villytsa@otenet.gr

    Full cv: http://www.concept-pl.us/villy.tsakona

     

    Office hours: Announced in the beginning of each semester
    Contact address: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Department of Early Childhood Education

    Academic information

    Education
    • 2004 D. in Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Thesis title: “Humor in written narratives: A linguistic approach”. [in Greek]
    • 2000 A. in Applied Linguistics, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Dissertation title: “Jokes in communication: A pragmatic analysis”. [in Greek]
    • 1996 BA in Greek Philology (Major in Linguistics), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

     
    Research interests
    • Humor theory and the analysis of humorous genres
    • Narrative analysis
    • Political and media discourse analysis
    • Discourse and the construction of identities
    • Critical literacy: Theory and applications
    • Language planning and language policy

     
    Courses and Seminars Undergraduate

    • Introduction to linguistics (709, former Language, Society and Cognition)
    • Critical literacy (721, former Language and education)
    • Sociolinguistics (722)
    • Text linguistics (723)
    • Issues in language policy (724)

     
    Graduate

    • Texts and identities, in the MA program “Education and Human Rights”

     
    Selected Publications
    • [2021] Greek migrant jokes online: A diachronic-comparative study on racist humorous representations [co-authored with Argiris Archakis]. Internet Pragmatics. https://doi.org/10.1075/ip.00063.tsa
    • [2020] Recontextualizing Humor: Rethinking the Analysis and Teaching of Humor. Language and Creativity 4. Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
    • [2020] Intertextuality and Humor [co-edited with Jan Chovanec]. European Journal of Humor Research 8 (3), 1-136.
    • [2020] Revisiting intertextuality and humor: Fresh perspectives on a classic topic [co-authored with Jan Chovanec]. European Journal of Humor Research 8 (3), 1-15.
    • [2020] Scrutinizing intertextuality in humor: Moving beyond cultural literacy and towards critical literacy. European Journal of Humor Research 8 (3), 40-59.
    • [2020] Liquid racism in the Greek anti-racist campaign #StopMindBorders [co-authored with Rania Karachaliou & Argiris Archakis]. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 8 (2), 232-261.
    • [2020] “They are like we are”: Migrants’ identities and positive representations in narratives from the official webpage of the International Organization for Migration [co-authored with Rita Aliai]. Glossologia 28, 97-118. [in Greek]
    • [2020] Tracing the trajectories of contemporary online joking. Media Linguistics/Медиалингвистика 7 (2), 169-183.
    • [2019] Vocatives in service encounters: Evidence from Greek [co-authored with Maria Sifianou]. Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics 51 (1), 60-89.
    • [2019] Talking about humor, racism, and anti-racism in class: A critical literacy proposal. Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Braşov, Series IV: Philology and Cultural Studies 12 (61) (2), 111-141.
    • [2019] Racism in recent Greek migrant jokes [co-authored with Argiris Archakis]. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research 32 (2), 267-287.
    • [2018] The Dynamics of Interactional Humor: Creating and Negotiating Humor in Everyday Encounters [co-edited with Jan Chovanec]. Topics in Humor Research 7. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
    • [2018] Intertextuality and/in political jokes. Lingua 203, 1-15.
    • [2018] Exploring identities in the ELF class: A critical proposal [co-authored with Sideri Deliroka]. Brno Studies in English 44 (1), 5-26.
    • [2018] Constructing the hybrid identity of the “Stranger”: The case of Greek immigrants in Canada [co-authored with Rania Karachaliou, Argiris Archakis & Angela Ralli]. Tertium Linguistic Journal 3 (1), 127-152.
    • [2018] A critical literacy proposal for exploring conflict and immigrant identities in the classroom – or how not to sweep conflict under the multicultural classroom carpet [co-authored with Argiris Archakis]. Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 6 (1), 1-25.
    • [2018] “I’m not racist but I expect linguistic assimilation”: The concealing power of humor in an anti-racist campaign [co-authored with Argiris Archakis & Sofia Lampropoulou]. Discourse, Context and Media 23, 53-61.
    • [2017] Learner corpora: Proposals for their exploitation [co-authored with Angeliki Kiliari & Argiris Archakis]. In Anastasia Christofidou (ed.), Aspects of Corpus Linguistics: Principles, Applications, Challenges. The Bulletin for Scientific Terms and Neologisms Athens: Academy of Athens, Research Center for Scientific Terms and Neologisms, 247-269. [in Greek]
    • [2017] Genres of humor. In Salvatore Attardo (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Language and Humor. Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics. New York: Routledge, 489-503.
    • [2017] A short introduction to stories and/in education. In Jim Prentzas (ed.), Digital Stories and Their Integration in Early Childhood and Primary Education: Teaching Scenarios and Practical Ideas. Education in a Competitive and Globalizing World. New York: Nova Publishers, 3-17.
    • [2016] Teaching politeness strategies in the kindergarten: A critical literacy teaching proposal. Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behavior, Culture 12 (1), 27-54.
    • [2016] Legitimizing and resistance identities in immigrant students’ school essays: Towards a culturally sustaining pedagogy [co-authored with Argiris Archakis]. Brno Studies in English 41 (1), 5-22.
    • [2014] Discourse Analysis: Theory and Applications [co-edited with Marianthi Georgalidou & Maria Sifianou]. Athens: Nissos. [in Greek]
    • [2013] The Sociolinguistics of Humor: Theory, Functions and Teaching. Athens: Grigoris Publications. [in Greek]
    • [2012] The Narrative Construction of Identities in Critical Education [co-authored with Argiris Archakis]. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.