Korina Giaxoglou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Korina Giaxoglou is involved.
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2024 Chapter 7. “The EU gave us a new beginning”: Liquid racism and affect in a curated migrant story Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona (eds.), pp. 181–201 | Chapter
In this chapter, we trace subtle forms of racism, known as liquid racism (Weaver 2010), in a personal experience story of a migrant’s journey, curated as part of a communication campaign about the European Union (EU). Our analysis of the story is based on the examination of its structure… read more
2024 Chapter 5. 🍊🍊🍊: Political influencers as flashpoints for manufactured online aggression Influencer Discourse: Affective relations and identities, Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Pilar and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 128–147 | Chapter
In the context of the literature on practices of social media influencers, little attention has been paid, so far, to the emerging category of political influencers. This chapter examines the social media feed of a political influencer as a site of antagonistic political debate generating… read more
2020 Introduction: Networked practices of emotion and stancetaking in reactions to mediatized events and crises Networked Practices of Emotion and Stancetaking in Reactions to Mediatized Events and Crises, Giaxoglou, Korina and Marjut Johansson (eds.), pp. 169–178 | Introduction
This introduction to the Special Issue on Networked Emotion and Stancetaking summarizes the individual and collective contribution of the included five research articles. We argue for the relevance of discourse-pragmatic theories, methods, and concepts for furnishing cross-disciplinary… read more
2020 The shared story of #JeSuisAylan on Twitter: Story participation and stancetaking in visual small stories Networked Practices of Emotion and Stancetaking in Reactions to Mediatized Events and Crises, Giaxoglou, Korina and Marjut Johansson (eds.), pp. 277–302 | Article
Despite an increased interest in the discourse representations of refugees in the media, little attention has been paid so far to the circulation and uptake of such portrayals in social media. This article addresses this gap by examining networked users’ reactions to the iconic image of Alan… read more
2009 Entextualizing vernacular forms in a Maniat village: Features of orthopraxy in local folklore practice Language, discourse and identities: Snapshot from Greek contexts, Georgakopoulou, Alexandra and Vally Lytra (eds.), pp. 419–434 | Article
Language ideology as a field of inquiry (Woolard et al. 1998: 3) involves, among others, the critical analysis of inequalities manifest in discursive and textual practices. This paper deals with folklore practices and language ideologies related to the project for the collection and publication of… read more