Alexandra Georgakopoulou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Alexandra Georgakopoulou is involved.
Journals
ISSN 2543-3164 | E‑ISSN 2543‑3156
Narrative Inquiry
Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Allyssa McCabe
ISSN 1387-6740 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9935
Influencer Discourse: Affective relations and identities
Edited by Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich and Alexandra Georgakopoulou
The rise of influencers, as power-players in the social media landscape, is a defining feature of the digital era, one that has received much attention from a variety of social science disciplines. But despite the key role that language, along with other semiotic modes, plays in the construction… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 349] 2024. vi, 306 pp.
Language, discourse and identities: Snapshot from Greek contexts
Edited by Alexandra Georgakopoulou and Vally Lytra
Small Stories, Interaction and Identities
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Narrative research is frequently described as a diverse enterprise, yet the kinds of narrative data that it bases itself on present a striking consensus: they tend to be autobiographical and elicited in interviews. This book sets out to carve out a space alongside this narrative canon for stories… read more[Studies in Narrative, 8] 2007. xi, 185 pp.
Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities
Edited by Jannis Androutsopoulos and Alexandra Georgakopoulou
This volume sets out to foreground the issues of youth identity in the context of current sociolinguistic and discourse research on identity construction. Based on detailed empirical analyses, the twelve chapters offer examinations of how youth identities from late childhood up to early twenties… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 110] 2003. viii, 338 pp.
Narrative Performances: A study of Modern Greek storytelling
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 46] 1997. xvii, 282 pp.
2024 Chapter 1. Reconfiguring and repurposing authenticity: Influencers and formatted stories on Instagram during the pandemic Influencer Discourse: Affective relations and identities, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 20–42 | Chapter
In previous work, I have shown the importance of authenticity as a platformed directive for influencers’ self-presentation on Instagram Stories. In this chapter, with data from the same influencers, I focus on if and how the directive of authenticity presents any shifts during the period of… read more
2024 Introduction: Affect, hate and relationality in the discourse of, with and about influencers Influencer Discourse: Affective relations and identities, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Chapter
2020 The personal and/as the political: Small stories and impoliteness in online discussions of the Greek crisis (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 11–35 | Chapter
Drawing on our previous work on the role of small stories in social-mediatized engagements with the Greek socio-economic crisis (Georgakopoulou 2014, 2015), in this article, we set out to shed light on impoliteness on social media through the lens of small stories research. We explore how… read more
2019 Sharing the moment as small stories: The interplay between practices & affordances in the social media-curation of lives Storytelling in the Digital World, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 105–127 | Chapter
Sharing the moment live, a built-in logic of many social networking sites, is, I claim, an invitation for creating plots, which has led to systematic practices. I single out taking a narrative stance on Facebook as such a practice and show the interplay between key-norms and evolving media… read more
2018 The personal and/as the political: Small stories and impoliteness in online discussions of the Greek crisis (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions, Xie, Chaoqun (ed.), pp. 216–241 | Article
Drawing on our previous work on the role of small stories in social-mediatized engagements with the Greek socio-economic crisis (Georgakopoulou 2014, 2015), in this article, we set out to shed light on impoliteness on social media through the lens of small stories research. We explore how… read more
2017 Sharing the moment as small stories: The interplay between practices & affordances in the social media-curation of lives Storytelling in the Digital Age: New challenges, De Fina, Anna and Sabina M. Perrino (eds.), pp. 311–333 | Article
Sharing the moment live, a built-in logic of many social networking sites, is, I claim, an invitation for creating plots, which has led to systematic practices. I single out taking a narrative stance on Facebook as such a practice and show the interplay between key-norms and evolving media… read more
2017 Friends and followers ‘in the know’: A narrative interactional approach to social media participation Dialogue across Media, Mildorf, Jarmila and Bronwen Thomas (eds.), pp. 155–178 | Article
Interactional approaches to everyday conversations, both bi- and multi-party ones, have amply documented the systematicity of sequential phenomena to be found within turn-taking as well as their close links with participant roles and relations. A comparable approach to social media communication is… read more
2013 Storytelling on the go: Breaking news as a travelling narrative genre The Travelling Concepts of Narrative, Hatavara, Mari, Lars-Christer Hydén and Matti Hyvärinen (eds.), pp. 201–224 | Article
In this chapter, I draw on a practice-based heuristic that I have put forward within small stories research so as to discuss breaking news as a narrative genre that is currently carving out a significant place for itself in the everyday storying of people in technologically mediated environments.… read more
2013 Building iterativity into positioning analysis: A practice-based approach to small stories and self Narrative Inquiry 23:1, pp. 89–110 | Article
The aim of this chapter is to contribute to the ongoing debate within interactional approaches to positioning in narrative regarding the ways in which we can analytically tap into aspects of teller’s self that can be seen as stable or continuous. Bamberg’s level 3 positioning which answers the… read more
2011 Narrative Discursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 190–207 | Article
2011 Computer-mediated communication Pragmatics in Practice, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 93–110 | Article
2009 Code-switching ‘in site’ for fantasizing identities: A case study of conventional uses of London Greek Cypriot Language, discourse and identities: Snapshot from Greek contexts, Georgakopoulou, Alexandra and Vally Lytra (eds.), pp. 467–488 | Article
Sociolinguistic studies of ‘minority languages’ and bilingualism have increasingly moved away from a singular emphasis on issues of ethnicity that poses direct links between the use of a language and an ethnic or cultural identity towards exploring the construction of identities that are not… read more
2009 Language, discourse and identities: Snapshots from Greek contexts Language, discourse and identities: Snapshot from Greek contexts, Georgakopoulou, Alexandra and Vally Lytra (eds.), pp. 311–316 | Article
Since the early 90s, Greece has witnessed an unprecedented population movement: Members of indigenous linguistic minorities have moved from the periphery to urban centres and large numbers of people have moved to Greece, primarily from the Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. This “flow of… read more
2007 Thinking big with small stories in narrative and identity analysis Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 145–154 | Article
Narrative research is frequently described as a rich and diverse enterprise, yet the kinds of narrative data that it bases itself on present a striking consensus: they are autobiographical in kind (i.e., about non-shared, personal experience, single past events). In this paper, I put forth a case… read more
2006 Thinking big with small stories in narrative and identity analysis Narrative – State of the Art, Bamberg, Michael (ed.), pp. 122–130 | Article
Narrative research is frequently described as a rich and diverse enterprise, yet the kinds of narrative data that it bases itself on present a striking consensus: they are autobiographical in kind (i.e., about non-shared, personal experience, single past events). In this paper, I put forth a case… read more
2005 9. Same old story? On the interactional dynamics of shared narratives Narrative Interaction, Quasthoff, Uta M. and Tabea Becker (eds.), pp. 223–241 | Chapter
2003 Discourse constructions of youth identities: Introduction Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities, Androutsopoulos, Jannis and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 1–25 | Article
2003 Computer-mediated communication Handbook of Pragmatics: 2001 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–21 | Article
2003 Looking back when looking ahead: On adolescents’ identity management in narrative practices Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities, Androutsopoulos, Jannis and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 75–91 | Article
2000 Analytical Positioning vis-à-vis Narrative Positioning Narrative Identity, Bamberg, Michael and Allyssa McCabe, pp. 185–190 | Miscellaneous
2000 Disagreements in television discussions: How small can small screen arguments be? Pragmatics 10:3, pp. 323–338 | Article
Based on a case study, this paper explores the interaction between the act of disagreeing and the contextual parameters of Greek television panel discussions. The analysis of the data reveals that, in contrast to previous literature on disagreements in TV interview situations, the disagreements at… read more
1999 Narrative Handbook of Pragmatics: 1997 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Article
1998 Conversational Stories as Performances: The Case of Greek Narrative Inquiry 8:2, pp. 319–350 | Article
This study is intended as a step towards the full uncovery of the textual and contextual, cross-cultural and particularistic aspects of the contested notion of oral performances. The data comprise conversational storytelling performances from Greece. To capture the interplay between conventional… read more
1995 Narrative Organization and Contextual Constraints: The Case of Modern Greek Storytelling Journal of Narrative and Life History 5:2, pp. 161–189 | Article
Abstract Use of connective forms in oral narratives is increasingly investigated as a device for signaling higher level discoursal relations, thus serving the stories' global organization. I set out to explore connective forms as both local and global links using Modern Greek storytelling as its… read more