Vasiliki Saloustrou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Vasiliki Saloustrou is involved.
Articles
2025 “I’m just kidding”: Teasing and potential offence in Greek fictional interactions ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 121–150 | Article
This paper investigates the role of claims to non-seriousness in ‘jocular pretence’ teasing sequences (Haugh 2016). Drawing on 50 hours of Greek scripted interactions from popular TV sitcoms, we examined 18 ‘biting’ (Boxer & Cortés-Conde 1997) teases involving overt claims to non-seriousness.… read more
2019 Greek women’s stories about intimate relationships: Conceptualizing politeness through “small stories” and identity analysis Narrative Inquiry 29:1, pp. 185–212 | Article
While sociolinguistic studies of politeness and identities present many disciplinary parallels, their paths have seldom intersected (Garcés-Conejos Blitvich & Sifianou, 2017, p. 227). It is within this context that this paper uses “small stories” research (Bamberg, 2006; Georgakopoulou, 2006,… read more