Sophia Kefalidou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Sophia Kefalidou is involved.
Articles
2025 Chapter 10. Irony, intersubjectivity and construal: The case of a Greek construction found in Greek Twitter about others What makes a Figure: Rethinking figurativity, Colston, Herbert L. (ed.), pp. 271–304 | Chapter
The chapter reconsiders irony as a perspectival phenomenon that involves the simultaneous presence of two perspectives on a single situation, which is the object of conceptualization, and analyses it as a mechanism that simulates the surprise that the speaker experiences when he or she is… read more
2019 APO X, Y: A discourse topicalization construction within Greek Twitter Corpus Approaches to Language, Thought and Communication, Lu, Wei-lun, Naděžda Kudrnáčová and Laura A. Janda (eds.), pp. 187–218 | Article
The paper accounts for the Greek discourse topicalization construction APO X, Y and the sarcastic and humorous effects that arise in the context of Twitter exchanges. Our analysis is based on the analytical tools of the Lexical Constructional Model (henceforth LCM) as formulated in Ruiz de… read more