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  1. Exploring the Sociopragmatics of Online Humor

    Article • July 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  2. Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism

    Article • February 2024, John Benjamins

    Dr Argiris Archakis, Dr Villy Tsakona

  3. Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, May 2023, John Benjamins

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  4. “The doctor said I suffer from Vitamin € deficiency”

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), July 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  5. A critical literacy proposal for exploring conflict and immigrant identities in the classroom

    Article • Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, December 2021, John Benjamins

    Dr Argiris Archakis, Dr Villy Tsakona

  6. Greek migrant jokes online

    Article • Internet Pragmatics, July 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Villy Tsakona, Dr Argiris Archakis

  7. Liquid racism in the Greek anti-racist campaign#StopMindBorders

    Article • Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, May 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Villy Tsakona, Dr Argiris Archakis

  8. Racism in recent Greek migrant jokes

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, May 2019, De Gruyter

    Dr Argiris Archakis, Dr Villy Tsakona

  9. Vocatives in service encounters: evidence from Greek

    Article • Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Villy Tsakona, Professor Maria Sifianou

  10. The Dynamics of Interactional Humor

    Article • January 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Jan Chovanec, Dr Villy Tsakona

  11. Küçükali (2011). Discursive strategies and political hegemony: The Turkish case

    Article • Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, October 2017, John Benjamins

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  12. Teaching politeness strategies in the kindergarten: A critical literacy teaching proposal

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, February 2016, De Gruyter

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  13. Archakis, Argiris/Tsakona, Villy (2012): The Narrative Construction of Identities in Critical Education

    Article • Sociolinguistica - International Yearbook of European Sociolinguistics / Internationales Jahrbuch für europäische Soziolinguistik, January 2015, De Gruyter

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  14. Book review: Argiris Archakis and Villy Tsakona, The Narrative Construction of Identities in Critical EducationArchakisArgirisTsakonaVilly, The Narrative Construction of Identities in Critical Education, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; viii + 211 p...

    Article • Discourse & Society, September 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Villy Tsakona, Dr. Saeed Rezaei

  15. Book review: Argiris Archakis and Villy Tsakona, The Narrative Construction of Identities in Critical EducationArchakisArgirisTsakonaVilly, The Narrative Construction of Identities in Critical Education, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012; 211 pp., US$...

    Article • Discourse Studies, June 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  16. Linguistic varieties in style: Humorous representations in Greek mass culture texts

    Article • Discourse Context & Media, March 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  17. Book review: Villy Tsakona and Diana E Popa, Studies in Political Humour: In Between Political Critique and Public EntertainmentTsakonaVillyPopaDiana E, Studies in Political Humour: In Between Political Critique and Public Entertainment, Amsterdam/Phil...

    Article • Discourse & Society, January 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  18. Book review: Villy Tsakona and Diana Elena Popa (eds), Studies in Political Humor: In Between Political Critique and Public EntertainmentTsakonaVillyPopaDiana Elena (eds), Studies in Political Humor: In Between Political Critique and Public Entertainme...

    Article • Discourse Studies, December 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  19. The Pragmatics of Political Discourse: Explorations across Cultures

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  20. Editorial: Confronting power with laughter

    Article • March 2013, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  21. Parliamentary punning: Is the Opposition more humorous than the ruling party?

    Article • March 2013, Estonian Literary Museum of Scholarly Press

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  22. Okras and the metapragmatic stereotypes of humour

    Article • January 2013, John Benjamins

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  23. The Greek state and the plaster cast

    Article • Metaphor and the Social World, September 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  24. Linguistic creativity and institutional design: the case of Greek parliamentary discourse

    Article • Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, January 2012, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  25. The Narrative Construction of Identities in Critical Education

    Article • January 2012, Nature

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  26. Narratives and language teaching

    Article • January 2012, Nature

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  27. Defining identity

    Article • January 2012, Nature

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  28. Introducing identities

    Article • January 2012, Nature

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  29. Analyzing conversational narratives

    Article • January 2012, Nature

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  30. Introduction

    Article • January 2012, Nature

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  31. Conclusion

    Article • January 2012, Nature

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  32. Narratives and critical literacy

    Article • January 2012, Nature

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  33. Exploring the narrative construction of identities in class

    Article • January 2012, Nature

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  34. Narrative theory, data, and methodology of the study

    Article • January 2012, Nature

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  35. Studies in Political Humour

    Article • October 2011, John Benjamins

    Dr Villy Tsakona, Diana E. Popa

  36. European parliaments under scrutiny

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, August 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  37. Irony beyond criticism

    Article • Pragmatics and Society, May 2011, John Benjamins

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  38. Chapter 1. Humour in politics and the politics of humour

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Diana E. Popa, Dr Villy Tsakona

  39. Chapter 11. Postscript

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Diana E. Popa, Dr Villy Tsakona

  40. Chapter 3. Informal talk in formal settings

    Article • January 2011, John Benjamins

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  41. The Prosodic Framing of Humour in Conversational Narratives: Evidence from Greek Data

    Article • Journal of Greek Linguistics, November 2010, Brill

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  42. ‘The wolf wakes up inside them, grows werewolf hair and reveals all their bullying’: The representation of parliamentary discourse in Greek newspapers

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, April 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  43. Parliamentary discourse in newspaper articles

    Article • Journal of Language and Politics, December 2009, John Benjamins

    Dr Villy Tsakona, Dr Argiris Archakis

  44. Language and image interaction in cartoons: Towards a multimodal theory of humor

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, June 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  45. Humor and image politics in parliamentary discourse: a Greek case study

    Article • Text & Talk - An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language Discourse Communication Studies, January 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  46. Linguistic Creativity, Secondary Orality, and Political Discourse: The Modern Greek Myth of the "Eloquent Orator"

    Article • Journal of Modern Greek Studies, January 2009, Project Muse

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  47. Bilingualisation in Practice: Terminological Issues in Bilingualising a Specialised Glossary

    Article • International Journal of Lexicography, December 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  48. Analyzing conversational data in GTVH terms: A new approach to the issue of identity construction via humor

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2005, De Gruyter

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  49. Jab lines in narrative jokes

    Article • Humor - International Journal of Humor Research, January 2003, De Gruyter

    Dr Villy Tsakona

  50. 2. Construction grammar and discoursal incongruity

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Villy Tsakona