Vasia Tsami
List of John Benjamins publications in which Vasia Tsami is involved.
Articles
2025 “I’m just kidding”: Teasing and potential offence in Greek fictional interactions ‘Only joking’: Negotiating offensive humour in interaction, Elder, Chi-Hé, Eleni Kapogianni and Ibi Baxter-Webb (eds.), pp. 121–150 | Article
This paper investigates the role of claims to non-seriousness in ‘jocular pretence’ teasing sequences (Haugh 2016). Drawing on 50 hours of Greek scripted interactions from popular TV sitcoms, we examined 18 ‘biting’ (Boxer & Cortés-Conde 1997) teases involving overt claims to non-seriousness.… read more
2024 Chapter 2. Racist discourses of discrimination and assimilation in an antiracist corpus Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona (eds.), pp. 41–70 | Chapter
Racist views against migrants are not only disseminated via hate speech, which overtly demonizes the ‘foreigners’, but also via antiracist discourse, which, although designed to fight racism, may end up reproducing inequalities. This ambiguity is captured in the concept of liquid racism (Weaver… read more
2024 Chapter 10. Racist and antiracist discourse in Greek migrant/refugee jokes: A multiliteracies teaching proposal about liquid racism Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse, Archakis, Argiris and Villy Tsakona (eds.), pp. 253–276 | Chapter
Following the multiliteracies model (Kalantzis and Cope 2012a), we design a critical teaching proposal focusing on migrant/refugee jokes. Although these jokes have an antiracist intention, they end up reproducing racist views, bringing to the surface a modern and subtle kind of racism, i.e.… read more