Costas Canakis

Biographic Data

ID6490029
NAMECostas Canakis
GIVEN NAMESCostas
FAMILY NAMECanakis
SIGNATURECANAKIS C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of the Aegean
ORCID0000-0002-9518-8696
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS2
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2003
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Aspects of Use of the Modern Lesbian Dialect in the Linguistic Landscape of Mytilene

    Open AccessCostas Canakis, Irene KouniarelliARTICLELanguages2026

    We focus on the use of the Modern Lesbian dialect in the linguistic landscape (LL), highlighting its diverse forms and functions. Since LL research primarily investigates written language in public space, emphasizing the dynamic relationship between language, place, and historicity, the growing visibility of the dialect in both physical and digital contexts (cf. the online–offline nexus) is particularly noteworthy. The presence of non-standard va…

  • Barrett, Rusty. 2017. From Drag Queens to Leathermen

    Costas CanakisARTICLEJournal of Language and Sexuality2019

    This article reviews From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender and Gay Male Subcultures

  • Snapshots of the Balkans through ethnographic investigation of the linguistic landscape

    Costas CanakisARTICLEPunctum International Journal of…2016

    Costas Canakis Punctum, 2(2): 24-65, 2016 DOI: 10.18680/hss.2016.0013 Abstract This paper investigates the linguistic landscape of Dubrovnik and Kotor on the Southeastern Adriatic coast, and Mytilene in the north Aegean attempting a theorization of its findings at the intersection of (socio)linguistics, ethnography, and semiotics, which has gained ground as the platform of choice in linguistic landscape [...]

  • Non-quantifying líγo constructions in Modern Greek

    Costas CanakisARTICLEConstructions and Frames2015

    In this paper I focus on MGr lίγo ‘(a) little’ in non-quantifying constructions codifying affect and argue that it has grammaticalized from a quantifier to an (inter)subjective metalinguistic hedging device: i.e., a positive politeness marker in the hedged directive construction and a marker of attitude to one’s own utterance in the hedged statement construction . Motivation for this development is provided by MGr interactional ethos and the impo…

  • The desire for identity and the identity of desire

    Costas CanakisARTICLEGender and Language2015Cited by: 2

    This paper focuses on three recent studies investigating the discursive construction of sexuality in Modern Greek – in contexts as diverse as same-sex online personals, the performance of heterosexuality in a mixed-sex conversation and coming out narratives – arguing that critical approaches to heteronormativity, the hallmark of queer linguistics, can hardly be dissociated from issues of ‘identity’ and ‘desire’ in language, since heteronormativit…

  • The Building Blocks of Meaning

    Open AccessCostas CanakisARTICLEJournal of Pragmatics2007

  • Subjectification

    Angelikē Athanasiadu, Angeliki Athanasiadou et al.BOOKSubjectification2006

    Subjectification is a widespread phenomenon and has emerged as a most pervasive tendency in diachronic semantic change (Traugott) and in synchronic semantic extension (Langacker). Its importance is increasingly valued despite the fact that it is an area that has been treated differently by different scholars. One of the book's objectives is to generate a clearer understanding of the two major models of subjectivity, to see where they can meet but…

  • Obituary of Kostas Kazazis, 1934–2002

    Open AccessCostas CanakisARTICLEJournal of Greek Linguistics2003