Browsing by Author "Theodoropoulou, Irene"

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    • Blue-collar workplace communicative practices: a case study in construction sites in Qatar 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Springer Netherlands , 2019 , Article)
      The aim of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of the role of language in multilingual blue-collar workplaces by investigating how communication is realized in construction sites in Qatar. The State of Qatar ...

    • Impact of undergraduate language and gender research: Challenges and reflections in the context of Qatar 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Paradigm Publishing , 2017 , Article)
      The paper aims at raising female students' awareness about sexism in language and designing and applying sociocultural linguistic interventions in Qatar. Contributing to the nascent feminist research tradition in this ...

    • Perceptual Dialectology of the Arab World: A Principal Analysis 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene; Tyler, Joseph ( Georgetown University Press , 2014 , Article)
      This study discusses perceptions of variation across dialects of Arabic in the Arab world as revealed through a perceptual dialectology map task. On a map of the Arab world, female undergraduate students at Qatar University ...

    • Politeness on Facebook: The case of Greek birthday wishes 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( John Benjamins Publishing , 2015 , 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 ...

    • Sociolinguistic anatomy of mobility: Evidence from Qatar 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Elsevier , 2015 , Article)
      Abstract This is a sociocultural linguistic study on the ways whereby mobility is reflected upon in life narratives. An ethnographically informed sociolinguistic scale analysis shows that when residents narrate their life ...

    • Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( John Benjamins Publishing , 2014 , Book)
      This ethnographic study deals with the ways people in Athens, Greece, use style to construct their social class identities. Including a rich dataset comprising ethnographic interviews with actual people who live in the ...

    • Speech style as political capital: Barack Obama’s Athens speech 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Taylor and Francis Group , 2020 , Article)
      This paper provides a speech stylistic analysis of Barack Obama’s 2016 Athens speech, and it argues for a culturally conscious take on speech style, which links it to the accumulation of political capital, at least in the ...

    • Stancing solidarity: Twitter communication in Qatar during the blockade 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene; Borresly, Dhyiaa ( Springer Nature , 2025 , Article)
      This paper deals with the sociolinguistically under-theorized concept of solidarity in the context of Twitter-based communication during the blockade that was imposed on Qatar from June 2017 until January 2021. The data ...

    • Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi(Indignants) on Facebook 

      Theodoropoulou, Irene ( De Gruyter , 2015 , Article)
      The paper discusses translation challenges associated with the linguistic and multisemiotic stylistic ways (Kress 2010; Coupland 2007) Aganaktismenoi, the Greek indignants’ movement, employ to produce a digital sense of ...