Maria Christodoulidou
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maria Christodoulidou is involved.
Articles
2012 Chapter 2. Conversational irony: Evaluating complaints Spaces of Polyphony, Lorda, Clara Ubaldina and Patrick Zabalbeascoa (eds.), pp. 25–42 | Chapter
This chapter is concerned with ironic assessments in spontaneous Cypriot-Greek conversations. The phenomenon is studied here by a close examination of ironic assessments in the specific context of naturally occurring complaint sequences where the speaker is complaining about a non-present party’s… read more
2008 Siga in interaction Pragmatics 18:2, pp. 189–213 | Article
This study is an investigation of a conventionalized ironic marker in spontaneous Cypriot-Greek conversations. Specifically it examines the lexical item siga, which translates variously as “like hell”, “yeah right”, “big deal”. For the analysis of siga, this study will rely on the insights offered… read more