Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1878-9714 | E‑ISSN 1878‑9722
Titles
Constructing Collectivity: 'We' across languages and contexts
Edited by Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
This is the first edited volume dedicated specifically to first person non-singular reference (‘we’). Its aim is to explore the interplay between the grammatical means that a language offers for accomplishing collective self-reference and the socio-pragmatic – broadly speaking – functions of ‘we’.… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 239] 2014. x, 355 pp.
Telephone Calls: Unity and diversity in conversational structure across languages and cultures
Edited by K.K. Luke and Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
Telephone conversation is one of the most common forms of communication in contemporary society. For the first time in human history, some people are spending as much time, if not more, talking on the telephone as they are on face-to-face conversations. The aims of this book are: to bring together… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 101] 2002. x, 290 pp.
2024 Polar answers: Accepting proposals in Greek telephone calls Pragmatics 34:3, pp. 447–472 | Article
The purpose of this paper is to examine the forms and functions of answers to proposals for joint action, implemented through polar interrogatives, in Greek telephone calls. Our analysis indicates a distinct functional distribution of three types of accepting answers to such proposals.… read more
2014 Constructing collectivity with ‘we’: An introduction Constructing Collectivity: 'We' across languages and contexts, Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula (ed.), pp. 1–20 | Article
2014 Replying with the freestanding ‘we’
in Greek conversations Constructing Collectivity: 'We' across languages and contexts, Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula (ed.), pp. 159–186 | Article
The present chapter focuses on the freestanding first person plural subject pronoun εμείς (‘we’) in Modern Greek. Previous work on εμείς (Pavlidou 2008, 2012) has shown that its non-referential functions depend on the sequential context in which the turn containing this freestanding pronoun appears. read more
2003 Greek. Women, gender and Modern Greek Gender Across Languages: The linguistic representation of women and men, Hellinger, Marlis and Hadumod Bußmann (eds.), pp. 175–199 | Article
1.Introduction
2.Grammatical gender
2.1Grammatical gender and inflection
2.2Personal nouns: Gender assignment
2.3Agreement and coordination
2.4Proper names
3.Gender asymmetries
3.1Generic use of the masculine gender
3.2Lexical and pragmatic asymmetries
4.Feminine occupational terms
4.1The… read more
2002 Studying telephone calls: Beginnings,developments,and perspectives Telephone Calls: Unity and diversity in conversational structure across languages and cultures, Luke, K.K. and Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou (eds.), pp. 3–21 | Article
2002 Moving towards closing: Greek telephone calls between familiars Telephone Calls: Unity and diversity in conversational structure across languages and cultures, Luke, K.K. and Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou (eds.), pp. 201–229 | Article
2001 Politeness in the classroom? Evidence from a Greek high school Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish, Bayraktaroğlu, Arın and Maria Sifianou (eds.), pp. 105–136 | Article
1998 Greek and German telephone closings: Patterns of confirmation and agreement Pragmatics 8:1, pp. 79–94 | Article