A Georgakopoulou
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 8787 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A Georgakopoulou |
| PRENOMES | A |
| SOBRENOME | Georgakopoulou |
| ASSINATURA | GEORGAKOPOULOU A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0440-6628 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 960 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
“When ChatGPT remembers”
Existing studies on GenAI and storytelling show mixed results, often highlighting the systems’ limitations compared to human creativity. A key-gap in this emerging field is how personal stories are co-constructed between users and GenAI. Moving beyond a human vs. non-human binary, this paper explores storytelling as an interactional process. I present an auto-ethnographic study of a longitudinal co-construction of a personal crisis narrative with…
Epistemological/Ontological Interview
Gendered Chronotopes on Social Media Through the Lens of Small Stories and Positioning Analysis
This article advances the study of digital identities by integrating the concept of chronotopes, as developed within sociolinguistics, with small stories research and positioning analysis. We put forward a cross-scalar, multimodal, micro-analytical approach and demonstrate its operation by tracing the “pretty girl” as a gendered chronotopic positioning, drawing on makeup tutorial video notes from the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu (Red…
Charting sociolinguistic inquiry in contemporary Greek contexts
In this overview of the dynamic field of MG sociolinguistics in the last four decades, we show the decisive move of the field, in the spirit of sociolinguistics in general, toward permeable boundaries with other areas of linguistics that set out to investigate language-as-action and language-in-context, as well as toward synergies with other disciplines invested in the study of society and culture. The studies we discuss show how researchers have…
Influencer Discourse
Chapter 1. Reconfiguring and repurposing authenticity
In previous work, I have shown the importance of authenticity as a platformed directive for influencers’ self-presentation on Instagram Stories. In this chapter, with data from the same influencers, I focus on if and how the directive of authenticity presents any shifts during the period of covid-19, as a result of physical confinement and social distancing as well as of the public backlash against influencers’ posts with aspirational content. My…
Technography as a synergetic methodology for the study of stories
Online translinguistic practices of the Global South through the lens of ordinariness
Disagreements in television discussions
Based on a case study, this paper explores the interaction between the act of disagreeing and the contextual parameters of Greek television panel discussions. The analysis of the data reveals that, in contrast to previous literature on disagreements in TV interview situations, the disagreements at hand are both (host)-unmediated and rendered less dispreferred by being delayed, indirectly posed, and/or mitigated. The discussion sheds light on the …
Language, discourse and identities
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 bodies” (Appadurai 1990) has disrupted the country’s monolingual and monocultural image (even if, in historical terms, this was in itself a constructio…
Code-switching ‘in site’ for fantasizing identities
Sociolinguistic studies of ‘minority languages’ and bilingualism have increasingly moved away from a singular emphasis on issues of ethnicity that poses direct links between the use of a language and an ethnic or cultural identity towards exploring the construction of identities that are not firmly located in category-bound descriptions. In this paper, we draw on these latest insights to account for processes of identity construction in a bilingu…
Co-opting Small Stories on Social Media
Small stories research has recently been extended as a paradigm for interrogating the current storytelling boom on social media, which includes the design of stories as specific features on a range of platforms. This algorithmic engineering of stories has led to the hugely popular feature of Stories on Snapchat and Instagram (also Facebook and Weibo). This article offers a methodology for studying such designed stories, underpinned by a technogra…
Designing stories on social media
Small stories as curated formats on social media
‘Whose context collapse?’
The longstanding tradition of the examination of language and discourse in context has not only spurred the turn to issues of context in language and new media research but it has also led to numerous methodological and analytical deliberations, for instance regarding the roles and nature of digital ethnography and the need for an adaptive, ‘mobile’ sociolinguistics. Such discussions center around social media affordances and constraints of wide …
Sharing the moment as small stories
Sharing the moment live, a built-in logic of many social networking sites, is, I claim, an invitation for creating plots, which has led to systematic practices. I single out taking a narrative stance on Facebook as such a practice and show the interplay between key-norms and evolving media affordances for pre-selection of story ingredients, localization, visualization of the experience, and audience selection. These contribute to showing the mome…
Small Stories Research
From Narrating the Self to Posting Self(ies)
Selfies have by now earned a prominent place in the diverse forms of self-representation on social media. In sociolinguistic terms, they have been undergoing a process of enregisterment (Agha 2005), as attested to in moral panics in public discussions and in a developing selfie-related lexicon. A phenomenon worthy of study then, yet largely unexplored, particularly within discourse and sociolinguistic perspectives on identities (possibly due to t…
Standard Languages and Language Standards – Greek, Past and Present
Contents: Foreword Introduction: Greek language-standardizing, past, present and future, Alexandra Georgakopoulou Part I Establishing a Standard: The invention of Greek: Macedonians, poets and others, Michael Silk The Greek koine and the logic of a standard language, Stephen Colvin Primary education teaching in a non-standard language as a tool of social and national integration: the case of vernacular Greek, 1923a 30, George Kritikos Greek with …
Small Stories Research
This chapter aims to present the disciplinary points of departure, key assumptions, and analytical tools of small stories research, a paradigm for narrative and identities analysis that was developed in collaboration with Michael Bamberg. Small stories research at first was put forth as a counter-move to dominant models of narrative studies that: defined narrative restrictively and on the basis of textual criteria; and privileged a specific type …
Sharing as rescripting
Introduction
Small stories transposition and social media
In this article, I employ small stories research as a micro-perspective for the scrutiny of any crisis-related positionings of ‘Greece’ and ‘the Greeks’ that accompany the circulation of news stories from Greece in social media. My claim is that such positionings cannot be fully understood without reference to what stories get circulated, where, by whom, for/with whom and how. To substantiate this, I draw on a particular incident involving the as…
Small stories research and social media practices
Diese Untersuchung analysiert eine heftige Konfrontation im griechischen Fernsehen wahrend der Wahlen von 2012 und wie sie sich rasend schnell im Internet verbreitete. Obwohl der erbitterte und skandalose Vorfall Youtube weltweit Zuschauer einbrachte, ging die Beurteilung des Geschehens seitens der Rezipienten weit auseinander. Die eigene griechische Nation urteilte ganz anders als die globalen Zuschauer. Sowohl die sprachliche als auch die fachl…
Small stories and identities analysis as a framework for the study of im/politeness-in-interaction
Although (socio)linguistic studies of im/politeness and identities present many parallels in their disciplinary trajectories, not least the shift toward interactional approaches, there is still scope and need for bringing the two traditions together and fruitfully exploring their intersections in method and analysis. In this paper, I put forth a proposal for studying im/politenessin- interaction on the basis of small stories as a framework for na…
Small stories as a new perspective in narrative and identity analysis
In this article, we depart from our recent work on 'small stories', which we propose as an antidote to canonical narrative studies, and we advance our argumentation by sketching out a five-step analytical operation for tapping into small stories as sites of identity work. These steps grow out of the model of positioning (as put forward by Bamberg 1997, and elaborated in Bamberg 2004a; cf. also Georgakopoulou 2000) that succeeds in navigating betw…
Thinking big with small stories in narrative and identity analysis
Narrative research is frequently described as a rich and diverse enterprise, yet the kinds of narrative data that it bases itself on present a striking consensus: they are autobiographical in kind (i.e., about non-shared, personal experience, single past events). In this paper, I put forth a case for under-represented narrative data which I collectively call (following Bamberg 2004a, b; also Georgakopoulou & Bamberg, 2005) "small stories" (partly…
Analysing narratives as practices
Departing from a critique of the conventional paradigm of narrative analysis, inspired by Labov and the narrative turn in social sciences, we propose an alternative framework, recommending combining a focus on the local occasioning of narratives in interaction with the analysis of their participation in a variety of macro-processes, through mobilizing the notions of social practice, genre and community of practice
Arguing about the future
Small stories transposition and social media
In this article, I employ small stories research as a micro-perspective for the scrutiny of any crisis-related positionings of ‘Greece’ and ‘the Greeks’ that accompany the circulation of news stories from Greece in social media. My claim is that such positionings cannot be fully understood without reference to what stories get circulated, where, by whom, for/with whom and how. To substantiate this, I draw on a particular incident involving the as…
Self‐presentation and interactional alliances in e‐mail discourse
The recent proliferation of linguistic studies of computer‐mediated communication is marked by an emphasis on communication between virtual acquaintances as well as by a limited cross‐fertilization with current advances in sociolinguistically oriented discourse analysis. The point of departure for this paper is the need for a more inclusive strategy in relevant research, in particular in the form of contextualized approaches to computer‐mediated …
Introduction
The point of departure for this special issue is the recent shift within discourse and sociolinguistic narrative analysis from a long-standing conception of (oral, cf. natural, nonliterary) narrative as a well-defined and delineated genre with an identifiable structure toward the exploration of the multiplicity, fragmentation, and irreducible situatedness of its forms and functions in a wide range of social arenas. We can refer to this shift as a…
On MSN with buff boys
This is a study of self- and other-identity claims such as ascriptions, assessments and categorizations in the classroom interactional data of female adolescent students of a London comprehensive school. The study follows an identities-in-interaction approach and attends to the occurrence of identity claims in stories of recent mediated interactions (e.g. on MSN, by text) between tellers and male suitors, which I collectively call small stories. …
Sharing the moment as small stories
Sharing the moment live, a built-in logic of many social networking sites, is, I claim, an invitation for creating plots, which has led to systematic practices. I single out taking a narrative stance on Facebook as such a practice and show the interplay between key-norms and evolving media affordances for pre-selection of story ingredients, localization, visualization of the experience, and audience selection. These contribute to showing the mome…
Plotting the “right place” and the “right time”
This article departs from the interactionist view that narrativized references to time and place are neither a backdrop to narrative action nor a priori fixed material but interrelated resources that are jointly (by storytelling participants) constructed on line in the course of a story's telling. The aim of this discussion will thus be to shed light on the uses of time and place as interactional resources in the conversational stories of a group…
The other side of the story
The starting point of this article is what will be identified as the ‘narrative canon’ comprising a specific type of narrative (past events personal experience elicited in research interviews) that mutually feeds into a specific analytic vocabulary, an interpretive idiom, and a research agenda (normally identity analysis) within conventional narrative analysis. The aim here is to give voice to, and advance understanding for, stories that do not f…
Small stories as curated formats on social media
Building iterativity into positioning analysis
The aim of this chapter is to contribute to the ongoing debate within interactional approaches to positioning in narrative regarding the ways in which we can analytically tap into aspects of teller’s self that can be seen as stable or continuous. Bamberg’s level 3 positioning which answers the question of ‘Who am I?” has inspired a lot of those discussion and it forms a productive point of departure here too. I attempt to systematize the explorat…
Postscript
Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis
Narrative and Identity Management
The ways in which interactional details and roles enacted by participants in relation to the ongoing production of a story connect with larger roles and identities have not been at the center of the problematics of identity construction in narrative. In an attempt to redress the balance, this article uses a broad definition of the conversation analytic concept of discourse identities and takes into account the ethnography of its data to explore t…
Co-opting Small Stories on Social Media
Small stories research has recently been extended as a paradigm for interrogating the current storytelling boom on social media, which includes the design of stories as specific features on a range of platforms. This algorithmic engineering of stories has led to the hugely popular feature of Stories on Snapchat and Instagram (also Facebook and Weibo). This article offers a methodology for studying such designed stories, underpinned by a technogra…
Sharing as rescripting
Small stories and identities analysis as a framework for the study of im/politeness-in-interaction
Although (socio)linguistic studies of im/politeness and identities present many parallels in their disciplinary trajectories, not least the shift toward interactional approaches, there is still scope and need for bringing the two traditions together and fruitfully exploring their intersections in method and analysis. In this paper, I put forth a proposal for studying im/politenessin- interaction on the basis of small stories as a framework for na…
Styling men and masculinities
Departing from interactionally focused research on the “representations” (cf. “constructions”) of the “other,” including recent dynamic approaches to the sociolinguistics of style/styling, this article looks into the practice of talk about men that resonated in the conversations of four Greek adolescent female “best friends.” The discussion sheds light on the interactional resources that participants draw upon to refer to and identify or categori…
Narrative Performances
Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line of discourse-analytic research on the dynamic relations between narrative forms and functions and their immediate and wider communicative contexts. The …
Introduction
A simple disagreement? A row? Or a massive fall out
Analytical Positioning vis-à-vis Narrative Positioning
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Conjunctions versus discourse markers in Greek
Article Conjunctions versus discourse markers in Greek: the interaction of frequency, position, and functions in context was published on January 1, 1998 in the journal Linguistics (volume 36, issue 5)
Narrative Organization and Contextual Constraints
Use of connective forms in oral narratives is increasingly investigated as a device for signaling higher level discoursal relations, thus serving the stories' global organization. I set out to explore connective forms as both local and global links using Modern Greek storytelling as its data. My aims are to uncover the stories' template of organizational relations and to demonstrate their context sensitivity. This is achieved by looking into link…
The audience shaping of text-strategies in spoken discourse
Self‐presentation and interactional alliances in e‐mail discourse
The recent proliferation of linguistic studies of computer‐mediated communication is marked by an emphasis on communication between virtual acquaintances as well as by a limited cross‐fertilization with current advances in sociolinguistically oriented discourse analysis. The point of departure for this paper is the need for a more inclusive strategy in relevant research, in particular in the form of contextualized approaches to computer‐mediated …
Conversational Stories as Performances
This study is intended as a step towards the full uncovery of the textual and contextual, cross-cultural and particularistic aspects of the contested notion of oral performances. The data comprise conversational storytelling performances from Greece. To capture the interplay between conventional resources and contextual contingencies involved in any performance, the study employs the three dimensions of narrativity, teller-tale-telling (Blum-Kulk…
Conjunctions versus discourse markers in Greek
Article Conjunctions versus discourse markers in Greek: the interaction of frequency, position, and functions in context was published on January 1, 1998 in the journal Linguistics (volume 36, issue 5)
David Holton, Peter Mackridge and Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Greek. A Comprehensive Grammar of the Modern Language. London
Analytical Positioning vis-à-vis Narrative Positioning
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Mapping the world of discourse
Le concept de genre - un des concepts fondamentaux des etudes discursives - renvoie a deux aspects du discours : 1) il permet d'apprehender le discours comme une action et s'oppose a la notion de style ; 2) il definit un ensemble de proprietes formelles, fonctionnelles et contextuelles du texte et constitue alors une alternative a la notion de type de texte. Proceder a une typologie des genres constitue donc une tâche tres difficile. Le critere d…
Narrative Performances
Conversational narratives provide valuable resources for the discursive construction and invoking of personal and sociocultural identities. As such, their sociolinguistic and cultural analysis constitute a high priority in the agenda of discourse studies. This book contributes to the growing line of discourse-analytic research on the dynamic relations between narrative forms and functions and their immediate and wider communicative contexts. The …
Arguing about the future
Discourse constructions of youth identities
Narrative and Identity Management
The ways in which interactional details and roles enacted by participants in relation to the ongoing production of a story connect with larger roles and identities have not been at the center of the problematics of identity construction in narrative. In an attempt to redress the balance, this article uses a broad definition of the conversation analytic concept of discourse identities and takes into account the ethnography of its data to explore t…
Methods of Text and Discourse Analysis
Plotting the “right place” and the “right time”
This article departs from the interactionist view that narrativized references to time and place are neither a backdrop to narrative action nor a priori fixed material but interrelated resources that are jointly (by storytelling participants) constructed on line in the course of a story's telling. The aim of this discussion will thus be to shed light on the uses of time and place as interactional resources in the conversational stories of a group…
A Linguistic Anthropology of Praxis and Language Shift
Linguistic Anthropology of Praxis and Language Shift: Arvanitika (Albanian) and Greek in Contact Lukas Tsitsipis. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. + 163 pp
Styling men and masculinities
Departing from interactionally focused research on the “representations” (cf. “constructions”) of the “other,” including recent dynamic approaches to the sociolinguistics of style/styling, this article looks into the practice of talk about men that resonated in the conversations of four Greek adolescent female “best friends.” The discussion sheds light on the interactional resources that participants draw upon to refer to and identify or categori…
The other side of the story
The starting point of this article is what will be identified as the ‘narrative canon’ comprising a specific type of narrative (past events personal experience elicited in research interviews) that mutually feeds into a specific analytic vocabulary, an interpretive idiom, and a research agenda (normally identity analysis) within conventional narrative analysis. The aim here is to give voice to, and advance understanding for, stories that do not f…
Thinking big with small stories in narrative and identity analysis
Narrative research is frequently described as a rich and diverse enterprise, yet the kinds of narrative data that it bases itself on present a striking consensus: they are autobiographical in kind (i.e., about non-shared, personal experience, single past events). In this paper, I put forth a case for under-represented narrative data which I collectively call (following Bamberg 2004a, b; also Georgakopoulou & Bamberg, 2005) "small stories" (partly…
Postscript
Small Stories, Interaction and Identities
Narrative research is frequently described as a diverse enterprise, yet the kinds of narrative data that it bases itself on present a striking consensus: they tend to be autobiographical and elicited in interviews. This book sets out to carve out a space alongside this narrative canon for stories that have not made it to the mainstream of narrative and identity analysis, yet they abound as well as being crucial sites of subjectivity in everyday i…
Youth, discourse, and interpersonal management
Small stories as a new perspective in narrative and identity analysis
In this article, we depart from our recent work on 'small stories', which we propose as an antidote to canonical narrative studies, and we advance our argumentation by sketching out a five-step analytical operation for tapping into small stories as sites of identity work. These steps grow out of the model of positioning (as put forward by Bamberg 1997, and elaborated in Bamberg 2004a; cf. also Georgakopoulou 2000) that succeeds in navigating betw…
Introduction
The point of departure for this special issue is the recent shift within discourse and sociolinguistic narrative analysis from a long-standing conception of (oral, cf. natural, nonliterary) narrative as a well-defined and delineated genre with an identifiable structure toward the exploration of the multiplicity, fragmentation, and irreducible situatedness of its forms and functions in a wide range of social arenas. We can refer to this shift as a…
On MSN with buff boys
This is a study of self- and other-identity claims such as ascriptions, assessments and categorizations in the classroom interactional data of female adolescent students of a London comprehensive school. The study follows an identities-in-interaction approach and attends to the occurrence of identity claims in stories of recent mediated interactions (e.g. on MSN, by text) between tellers and male suitors, which I collectively call small stories. …
Analysing narratives as practices
Departing from a critique of the conventional paradigm of narrative analysis, inspired by Labov and the narrative turn in social sciences, we propose an alternative framework, recommending combining a focus on the local occasioning of narratives in interaction with the analysis of their participation in a variety of macro-processes, through mobilizing the notions of social practice, genre and community of practice
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