Anastasia G. Stamou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Anastasia G. Stamou is involved.
Journal
2024 Chapter 6. Migrant voices in ‘antiracist’ video clips in Greece: Eliteness as a form of liquid racism Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona (eds.), pp. 143–180 | Chapter
As an attempt to manage cultural and linguistic divergences from the monocultural and monolingual norm, European nation-states, including Greece, tend to enact overt, or more recently, covert forms of racist discourses. In the present study, we analyze three video clips launched as part of… read more
2022 Warum Deutsch lernen? Constructions of German language learning identities on the Goethe Institute website Language, Culture and Society 4:1, pp. 22–46 | Article
In the present study, we explore the discursive construction of German language learning identities on the Goethe Institute website. With this aim, we depart from critical sociolinguistic approaches to multilingualism and draw on an analytical framework which views discourse as a lens through… read more
2018 Chapter 8. “Cool children” and “super seniors” cross into youth language: Humorous constructions of youthfulness in Greek family sitcoms The Dynamics of Interactional Humor: Creating and negotiating humor in everyday encounters, Tsakona, Villy and Jan Chovanec (eds.), pp. 181–204 | Chapter
This article examines the ways in which the sociolinguistic construction of youthful identities is represented in two popular Greek comedy family sitcoms, considering that youth language has gained a prominent position in TV fictional discourse, being used by characters of all ages. Drawing upon a… read more
2017 Sociolinguistic representations of the military in Greek comedy films: Laughing at the army Pragmatics and Society 8:1, pp. 1–25 | Article
This paper aims to explore cinematic representations of the military in peacetime, and more importantly, from a socio-cultural setting in which mandatory military service is highly devalued. Focusing on three Greek popular comedy films, we examined humorous depictions of the military. By… read more




