Vally Lytra
List of John Benjamins publications in which Vally Lytra is involved.
Titles
Play Frames and Social Identities: Contact encounters in a Greek primary school
Vally Lytra
This book is a sociolinguistic study of children’s talk and how they interact with one another and their teachers in multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic schools. It is based on tape recordings and ethnographic observations of majority Greek and minority Turkish-speaking children at an… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 163] 2007. xii, 300 pp.
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
2009 Constructing academic hierarchies: Teasing and identity work among peers at school Language, discourse and identities: Snapshot from Greek contexts, Georgakopoulou, Alexandra and Vally Lytra (eds.), pp. 449–466 | Article
In this paper I look at how through the use of teasing as a socially recurrent activity the members of a multilingual, multicultural and multiethnic peer group (comprised of majority Greek and minority Turkish-speaking children of Roma heritage) make particular identity ascriptions and displays… read more
2009 Multilingual practices and identity negotiations among Turkish-speaking young people in a diasporic context Youngspeak in a Multilingual Perspective, Stenström, Anna-Brita and Annette Myre Jørgensen (eds.), pp. 55–78 | Article
In this paper, we explore a group of Turkish-speaking young Londoners’ multilingual practices and identity negotiations in a diasporic context, two Turkish complementary schools. The paper draws upon field-notes and digital recordings to investigate how the young people in question contextually… read more
2003 Nicknames and teasing: A case study of a linguistically and culturally mixed peer-group Discourse Constructions of Youth Identities, Androutsopoulos, Jannis and Alexandra Georgakopoulou (eds.), pp. 47–73 | Article