Αναστασία Γ Στάμου
Biographic Data
| ID | 5633090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Αναστασία Γ Στάμου |
| GIVEN NAMES | Αναστασία Γ |
| FAMILY NAME | Στάμου |
| SIGNATURE | ΣΤΆΜΟΥ Α Γ |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3725-0068 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Not that We’re not Hard-Working Ourselves, but Germans are the Model’
What’s the most beautiful language in the world?’
Critical Discourse Studies of Popular Culture and National Identity Construction
In this paper, I advocate for advancing Critical Discourse Studies of Popular Culture by integrating perspectives from Cultural Studies, particularly their emphasis on examining how popular culture shapes social reality. The proposed research enterprise focuses on the construction of Germanness using two examples from Greek popular culture discourse during the debt crisis: an infotainment website article and a TV sketch comedy. The analysis revea…
‘Let’s go now to the difficult part of the day’
Viewing the MasterChef Greece judges’ identities as mediatized, namely, as constructed via particular semiotic resources (linguistic, visual, spatial) mostly resulting from decisions made by the show’s production, we examine the communicative and social functions of the show as being a popular example of a reality TV programme. The judges hold a crucial role, as their assessment affects the subsequent development of the show. By adopting a micro-…
Warum Deutsch lernen
In the present study, we explore the discursive construction of German language learning identities on the Goethe Institute website. With this aim, we depart from critical sociolinguistic approaches to multilingualism and draw on an analytical framework which views discourse as a lens through which one can examine the ways identities are actively accomplished in particular contexts. From the analysis, it appears that on the central body of the In…
Istanbul Greek identities in film discourse
Considering the prominent role of popular culture in forming our perceptions about national/ ethnic identities and historical memory, in the present study, we explore the way in which Greek-Turkish relationships as well as the ethnic identities implicated are depicted in the Greek blockbuster film Α Touch of Spice/ Politiki Kouzina, which deals with the Greek community of Istanbul in the 1950s and the 1960s. For the study of ethnic identities in …
Bringing critical discourse analysis into the classroom
In this article, we report on the results of a critical literacy project on fairy tales, which was implemented with a class of first graders (6–7 years old) in Greece in the context of teaching Greek as a mother tongue. As a teaching approach, critical literacy entails a radical change in the school culture, being at odds with the Greek educational reality at the moment. In consideration of the controversies of the Greek educational context, we d…
Sociolinguistics of fiction
Fictionalization of Germanness in the times of Greek crisis
As processes of identity construction are relational, the ways the Greeks view the Germans are intrinsically interrelated to how they see themselves, especially in a period of economic recession. Against this backdrop, in the present paper, I consider the ways Germanness (and thus, also Greekness) are constructed in a popular Greek TV stand-up comedy show. The analysis revealed that they were depicted as two distinct universes consisting of diffe…
Studying the interactional construction of identities in Critical Discourse Studies
The field of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) needs to extend its analytical scope and cross-fertilize with interactional accounts of identity. One the one hand, there is a constant and reflexive re-crafting of identities in late modernity. On the other hand, interaction is considered to be the major lens through which such identities in flux are studied. To this aim, I propose an analytical framework based on a synthesis of well-established CDS …
Sociolinguistic representations of the military in Greek comedy films
This paper aims to explore cinematic representations of the military in peacetime, and more importantly, from a socio-cultural setting in which mandatory military service is highly devalued. Focusing on three Greek popular comedy films, we examined humorous depictions of the military. By adopting the ‘identities in interaction’ model of Bucholtz and Hall, our analysis suggested that the use of the formal vs. the informal military sociolect indexe…
Synthesizing critical discourse analysis with language ideologies
Exploring views on heritage language use and bilingual acquisition
In this paper, we present a synthesis of a series of studies, carried out by our research groups, from the Greek educational context on teachers’ and immigrant students’ views on issues of bilingual acquisition and of heritage language learning and teaching. Albeit including heterogeneous samples and employing quantitative and qualitative instruments, our data functioned in a complementary way, forming a converging ‘picture’ about the status of h…
Young children talk about their popular cartoon and TV heroes' speech styles
Considering the role of popular cultural texts in shaping sociolinguistic reality, it makes sense to explore how children actually receive those texts and what conceptualisations of sociolinguistic diversity they form through those texts. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine Greek young children's views on sociolinguistic diversity in popular cartoons and TV series. Drawing upon a framework of media reception, we explored how at…
‘Right you are (if you think so)’
This article examines the ways in which the sociolinguistic construction of youth identity takes place in the popular Greek family sitcom Deka Lepta Kirigma/ Ten-Minute Preaching (Mega TV, 2000–04). Drawing on the ‘identities in interaction’ sociocultural linguistic model of Bucholtz and Hall (2005) and the ethno-methodological tool of ‘membership categorization analysis’ (Sacks 1992), our analysis focuses on three interactions between teenage an…
The mediation of ‘youth language’ in mainstream mass culture
y acknowledging the ideological framework upon which the media and mass culture operate, contemporary sociolinguistic research aims to explore how such texts shape viewers’ understanding about the speech of social groups and the way they eventually perpetuate or challenge certain social and linguistic stereotypes. In light of this, we examine the way ‘youth language’ is represented in a popular Greek family sitcom. As a product of late modern mas…
Representations of disability from the perspective of people with disabilities and their families
Contrary to the growing body of research into views about and attitudes towards disability which has focused on the perspectives of non-disabled people, recent disability studies have been directed to the voices of people with disabilities and/or their families, by acknowledging an ‘epistemic privilege’ to them. In the present study, we use the posts of sensory and physical disability groups on Facebook as a lens to uncover the voices and experie…
Constructing Childhood
This study explores the construction of discourses about childhood in the Greek daily press. It employs the theoretical frameworks of the new sociology of childhood and critical discourse analysis to question which discourses of childhood are constructed in the daily press presenting cases where children were the victimisers in school violent episodes. The study showed that while there are distinct discourses constructed in the texts such as the …
Representations of linguistic variation in children's books
By drawing upon the dialogic theory of Bakhtin, I consider how register variation is represented in the children's books by the popular Greek writer Dr. Eugene Trivizas, with the aim to explore whether, and in what terms, it could be exploited for the raising of (critical) language awareness. Most sociolinguistic studies which have used literature as data have focused on more or less ‘accurate’ representations of linguistic variation. The present…
Representations of youth (language) in Greek TV commercials
Drawing upon evidence from Greek TV commercials, we explore how youth language is mediated and what the ideological role of such depictions is regarding young people as a social group and the speech styles they employ. Given the fact that consumption is a major index of late modern (youth) identities, the way young people and their speech styles are represented in advertising has important implications for the identification process of young peop…
A comparative study of representations about disability in primary school children's drawings
Over the past few years, perceptions about disability – at least at the theoretical level – have been shifted toward a more progressive approach, which stresses the social aspects of the construction of disability (social model) rather than personal limitations, as supported by the traditional disability approach (medical–individual model). Drawing upon the sociosemiotic approach as developed by Kress and van Leeuwen, the present study examines f…
Representing “traditional” and “progressive” women in Greek television
Speech style and the construction of social division
The Discourse of Environmental Information
In the present study, the textual material disseminated in the information center of Dadia forest reserve is examined. Adopting the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, environmental information is seen as “discourse.” By employing a two-plane analytical framework (content analysis and systemic-functional linguistic analysis), the focus given on scientific rhetoric is unveiled. Consequently, the management regime proposed for the…
Representing protection action in an ecotourism setting
The implementation of a protection scheme is central to ecotourism. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis, the present study accounts for the way protection action is represented in visitors' books at a Greek reserve (Dadia forest). Specifically, proceeding to content analysis and considering a wide range of linguistic features (vocabulary, syntax, ergativity, aspect, and temporal and illocutionary indices), we stu…
The Representation of Non-Protesters in a Student and Teacher Protest
This article examines a rather neglected aspect of the protest script, the news representation of drivers, pedestrians, parents of protesters and other actors - defined here as `non-protesters' - in a student and teacher protest that took place in Greece. The significance of non-protesters is that they may have a considerable impact on people who read about the protest and therefore the readers' reception of that particular protest. In addition, …
Images of Nature by Tourism and Environmentalist Discourses in Visitors Books
This article offers qualitative insights into the way visitors to a Greek reserve negotiate the duality of ecotourism in visitors books. This is a neglected issue in general, and within ‘Ecocritical Discourse Analysis’ in particular. Using as ‘map’ a Content Analysis undertaken in a previous study, we now conduct a lexical analysis to two of the major discourses drawn for the shaping of images of the natural environment of the reserve (tourism an…
Sociolinguistics of fiction
Speech style and the construction of social division
Ecotourism Experiences in Visitors' Books of a Greek Reserve
This article explores the way visitors to a Greek reserve experience the protected area through visitors' books, namely, via the distribution of the tourism and environmentalist image of the reserve in their texts. Although it has been often claimed that the economic aspect of eco-tourism has overridden the environmentalist one, the problem has not been adequately addressed in terms of visitors, and has produced conflicting findings. This article…
Studying the interactional construction of identities in Critical Discourse Studies
The field of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) needs to extend its analytical scope and cross-fertilize with interactional accounts of identity. One the one hand, there is a constant and reflexive re-crafting of identities in late modernity. On the other hand, interaction is considered to be the major lens through which such identities in flux are studied. To this aim, I propose an analytical framework based on a synthesis of well-established CDS …
Representing protection action in an ecotourism setting
The implementation of a protection scheme is central to ecotourism. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis, the present study accounts for the way protection action is represented in visitors' books at a Greek reserve (Dadia forest). Specifically, proceeding to content analysis and considering a wide range of linguistic features (vocabulary, syntax, ergativity, aspect, and temporal and illocutionary indices), we stu…
Representations of disability from the perspective of people with disabilities and their families
Contrary to the growing body of research into views about and attitudes towards disability which has focused on the perspectives of non-disabled people, recent disability studies have been directed to the voices of people with disabilities and/or their families, by acknowledging an ‘epistemic privilege’ to them. In the present study, we use the posts of sensory and physical disability groups on Facebook as a lens to uncover the voices and experie…
Representations of youth (language) in Greek TV commercials
Drawing upon evidence from Greek TV commercials, we explore how youth language is mediated and what the ideological role of such depictions is regarding young people as a social group and the speech styles they employ. Given the fact that consumption is a major index of late modern (youth) identities, the way young people and their speech styles are represented in advertising has important implications for the identification process of young peop…
Istanbul Greek identities in film discourse
Considering the prominent role of popular culture in forming our perceptions about national/ ethnic identities and historical memory, in the present study, we explore the way in which Greek-Turkish relationships as well as the ethnic identities implicated are depicted in the Greek blockbuster film Α Touch of Spice/ Politiki Kouzina, which deals with the Greek community of Istanbul in the 1950s and the 1960s. For the study of ethnic identities in …
The mediation of ‘youth language’ in mainstream mass culture
y acknowledging the ideological framework upon which the media and mass culture operate, contemporary sociolinguistic research aims to explore how such texts shape viewers’ understanding about the speech of social groups and the way they eventually perpetuate or challenge certain social and linguistic stereotypes. In light of this, we examine the way ‘youth language’ is represented in a popular Greek family sitcom. As a product of late modern mas…
Representing “traditional” and “progressive” women in Greek television
The Discourse of Environmental Information
In the present study, the textual material disseminated in the information center of Dadia forest reserve is examined. Adopting the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, environmental information is seen as “discourse.” By employing a two-plane analytical framework (content analysis and systemic-functional linguistic analysis), the focus given on scientific rhetoric is unveiled. Consequently, the management regime proposed for the…
The Representation of Non-Protesters in a Student and Teacher Protest
This article examines a rather neglected aspect of the protest script, the news representation of drivers, pedestrians, parents of protesters and other actors - defined here as `non-protesters' - in a student and teacher protest that took place in Greece. The significance of non-protesters is that they may have a considerable impact on people who read about the protest and therefore the readers' reception of that particular protest. In addition, …
Ecotourism Experiences in Visitors' Books of a Greek Reserve
This article explores the way visitors to a Greek reserve experience the protected area through visitors' books, namely, via the distribution of the tourism and environmentalist image of the reserve in their texts. Although it has been often claimed that the economic aspect of eco-tourism has overridden the environmentalist one, the problem has not been adequately addressed in terms of visitors, and has produced conflicting findings. This article…
Images of Nature by Tourism and Environmentalist Discourses in Visitors Books
This article offers qualitative insights into the way visitors to a Greek reserve negotiate the duality of ecotourism in visitors books. This is a neglected issue in general, and within ‘Ecocritical Discourse Analysis’ in particular. Using as ‘map’ a Content Analysis undertaken in a previous study, we now conduct a lexical analysis to two of the major discourses drawn for the shaping of images of the natural environment of the reserve (tourism an…
Representing protection action in an ecotourism setting
The implementation of a protection scheme is central to ecotourism. Drawing upon the theoretical framework of critical discourse analysis, the present study accounts for the way protection action is represented in visitors' books at a Greek reserve (Dadia forest). Specifically, proceeding to content analysis and considering a wide range of linguistic features (vocabulary, syntax, ergativity, aspect, and temporal and illocutionary indices), we stu…
The Discourse of Environmental Information
In the present study, the textual material disseminated in the information center of Dadia forest reserve is examined. Adopting the theoretical framework of Critical Discourse Analysis, environmental information is seen as “discourse.” By employing a two-plane analytical framework (content analysis and systemic-functional linguistic analysis), the focus given on scientific rhetoric is unveiled. Consequently, the management regime proposed for the…
Representing “traditional” and “progressive” women in Greek television
Speech style and the construction of social division
Representations of linguistic variation in children's books
By drawing upon the dialogic theory of Bakhtin, I consider how register variation is represented in the children's books by the popular Greek writer Dr. Eugene Trivizas, with the aim to explore whether, and in what terms, it could be exploited for the raising of (critical) language awareness. Most sociolinguistic studies which have used literature as data have focused on more or less ‘accurate’ representations of linguistic variation. The present…
Representations of youth (language) in Greek TV commercials
Drawing upon evidence from Greek TV commercials, we explore how youth language is mediated and what the ideological role of such depictions is regarding young people as a social group and the speech styles they employ. Given the fact that consumption is a major index of late modern (youth) identities, the way young people and their speech styles are represented in advertising has important implications for the identification process of young peop…
A comparative study of representations about disability in primary school children's drawings
Over the past few years, perceptions about disability – at least at the theoretical level – have been shifted toward a more progressive approach, which stresses the social aspects of the construction of disability (social model) rather than personal limitations, as supported by the traditional disability approach (medical–individual model). Drawing upon the sociosemiotic approach as developed by Kress and van Leeuwen, the present study examines f…
Constructing Childhood
This study explores the construction of discourses about childhood in the Greek daily press. It employs the theoretical frameworks of the new sociology of childhood and critical discourse analysis to question which discourses of childhood are constructed in the daily press presenting cases where children were the victimisers in school violent episodes. The study showed that while there are distinct discourses constructed in the texts such as the …
The mediation of ‘youth language’ in mainstream mass culture
y acknowledging the ideological framework upon which the media and mass culture operate, contemporary sociolinguistic research aims to explore how such texts shape viewers’ understanding about the speech of social groups and the way they eventually perpetuate or challenge certain social and linguistic stereotypes. In light of this, we examine the way ‘youth language’ is represented in a popular Greek family sitcom. As a product of late modern mas…
Representations of disability from the perspective of people with disabilities and their families
Contrary to the growing body of research into views about and attitudes towards disability which has focused on the perspectives of non-disabled people, recent disability studies have been directed to the voices of people with disabilities and/or their families, by acknowledging an ‘epistemic privilege’ to them. In the present study, we use the posts of sensory and physical disability groups on Facebook as a lens to uncover the voices and experie…
Young children talk about their popular cartoon and TV heroes' speech styles
Considering the role of popular cultural texts in shaping sociolinguistic reality, it makes sense to explore how children actually receive those texts and what conceptualisations of sociolinguistic diversity they form through those texts. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to examine Greek young children's views on sociolinguistic diversity in popular cartoons and TV series. Drawing upon a framework of media reception, we explored how at…
‘Right you are (if you think so)’
This article examines the ways in which the sociolinguistic construction of youth identity takes place in the popular Greek family sitcom Deka Lepta Kirigma/ Ten-Minute Preaching (Mega TV, 2000–04). Drawing on the ‘identities in interaction’ sociocultural linguistic model of Bucholtz and Hall (2005) and the ethno-methodological tool of ‘membership categorization analysis’ (Sacks 1992), our analysis focuses on three interactions between teenage an…
Sociolinguistic representations of the military in Greek comedy films
This paper aims to explore cinematic representations of the military in peacetime, and more importantly, from a socio-cultural setting in which mandatory military service is highly devalued. Focusing on three Greek popular comedy films, we examined humorous depictions of the military. By adopting the ‘identities in interaction’ model of Bucholtz and Hall, our analysis suggested that the use of the formal vs. the informal military sociolect indexe…
Synthesizing critical discourse analysis with language ideologies
Exploring views on heritage language use and bilingual acquisition
In this paper, we present a synthesis of a series of studies, carried out by our research groups, from the Greek educational context on teachers’ and immigrant students’ views on issues of bilingual acquisition and of heritage language learning and teaching. Albeit including heterogeneous samples and employing quantitative and qualitative instruments, our data functioned in a complementary way, forming a converging ‘picture’ about the status of h…
Bringing critical discourse analysis into the classroom
In this article, we report on the results of a critical literacy project on fairy tales, which was implemented with a class of first graders (6–7 years old) in Greece in the context of teaching Greek as a mother tongue. As a teaching approach, critical literacy entails a radical change in the school culture, being at odds with the Greek educational reality at the moment. In consideration of the controversies of the Greek educational context, we d…
Sociolinguistics of fiction
Fictionalization of Germanness in the times of Greek crisis
As processes of identity construction are relational, the ways the Greeks view the Germans are intrinsically interrelated to how they see themselves, especially in a period of economic recession. Against this backdrop, in the present paper, I consider the ways Germanness (and thus, also Greekness) are constructed in a popular Greek TV stand-up comedy show. The analysis revealed that they were depicted as two distinct universes consisting of diffe…
Studying the interactional construction of identities in Critical Discourse Studies
The field of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) needs to extend its analytical scope and cross-fertilize with interactional accounts of identity. One the one hand, there is a constant and reflexive re-crafting of identities in late modernity. On the other hand, interaction is considered to be the major lens through which such identities in flux are studied. To this aim, I propose an analytical framework based on a synthesis of well-established CDS …
Istanbul Greek identities in film discourse
Considering the prominent role of popular culture in forming our perceptions about national/ ethnic identities and historical memory, in the present study, we explore the way in which Greek-Turkish relationships as well as the ethnic identities implicated are depicted in the Greek blockbuster film Α Touch of Spice/ Politiki Kouzina, which deals with the Greek community of Istanbul in the 1950s and the 1960s. For the study of ethnic identities in …
Warum Deutsch lernen
In the present study, we explore the discursive construction of German language learning identities on the Goethe Institute website. With this aim, we depart from critical sociolinguistic approaches to multilingualism and draw on an analytical framework which views discourse as a lens through which one can examine the ways identities are actively accomplished in particular contexts. From the analysis, it appears that on the central body of the In…
‘Let’s go now to the difficult part of the day’
Viewing the MasterChef Greece judges’ identities as mediatized, namely, as constructed via particular semiotic resources (linguistic, visual, spatial) mostly resulting from decisions made by the show’s production, we examine the communicative and social functions of the show as being a popular example of a reality TV programme. The judges hold a crucial role, as their assessment affects the subsequent development of the show. By adopting a micro-…
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