Browsing English Literature & Linguistics by Author "n 2014039187"
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“DELIVER AMAZING”: Qatar as a branded architectural discourse in World Cup 2022
Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Routledge , 2020 , Book chapter)Qatar brands itself as a projected-in-the-future proud cosmopolitan and progressive country ready to host World Cup 2022. The branding practices, whereby this projection takes place, are the focus of Irene Theodoropoulou’s ... -
Humoristic Translanguaging in Intercultural Communication in Qatar: Merits, Limitations, and Its Potential Contribution to Policy Development
Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Springer, Singapore , 2021 , Book chapter)This paper deals with the merits and limitations of a pedagogical practice that has been developed in the context of teaching undergraduate sociolinguistics courses in a state tertiary education institute in the State of ... -
Mediatized vernacularization: On the structure, entextualization and resemiotization of Varoufakiology
Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This paper focuses on the structure of mediatized discourses on the former Greek minister of finance Yanis Varoufakis, which are labeled Varoufakiology. Through a multimodal discourse analysis of cartoons and photographs, ... -
Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar
Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)This paper deals with the discursive constructions of transformative, agentive and creative ethnolinguistic self-conceptualizations and positionings of some select members of the approximately 3000-member Greek diasporic ... -
Research Companion to Language and Country Branding
Theodoropoulou, Irene; Tovar, Johanna ( Routledge Handbooks , 2020 , Book chapter)This is an introduction to the language and country branding volume. The aim of this chapter is to provide a critical overview of the sociolinguistic, linguistic anthropological, and discursive analytical research on ... -
Social Media Branding : The case of Mykonos, Greece on Facebook
Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Routledge , 2020 , Book chapter)The chapter aims at contributing to the sociolinguistic theorization of branding through a word-of-mouth marketing lens by delving into the ways whereby Mykonos is branded on Facebook. Place branding is investigated in the ... -
Socio-historical multilingualism and language policies in Dubai
Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Routledge , 2020 , Book chapter)The aim of this chapter is to provide an overview of the sociolinguistic research which has been and is currently being conducted in Dubai, and has been published in the English language. After providing a discussion of ... -
Sociolinguistic insights into chick lit: Constructing the social class of elegant poverty
Theodoropoulou, Irene ( Elsevier , 2017 , Article)Abstract Aiming at suggesting ways whereby the sociolinguistic paradigm can benefit from the analysis of chick lit, this paper explores the ways through which the social class of “elegant poverty” is stylistically constructed ... -
Sociolinguistic Variation in Athenian Suburban Speech
Theodoropoulou, Irene ( John Benjamins Publishing , 2013 , Article)This article focuses on the description and interpretation of the social meaning of sociolinguistic variation in Athenian suburban speech. A descriptive statistical and a Varbrul analysis of the syntactic variable Verb and ...