Marina Terkourafi
Professor Sociolinguistics
- Name
- Prof.dr. M. Terkourafi
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3159
- m.terkourafi@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4400-9336
I have always been fascinated by language in its many manifestations: spoken, handwritten, or texted; regional, marginalized, and standard; translanguaged, trans-scripted. Much as language helps us connect with others, it is also an instrument for exclusion and division at all levels, from the (supra-)national to the individual. Yet, after years of studying language and languages, it is clear to me that language doesn't have this power all by itself. It is part of a larger semiotic whole, which includes material and ideological aspects acting as a filter to how we "hear" others and how they "hear" us. It is this enactment of the Self through language that lies at the heart of my research, which usually goes under the more traditional rubrics of "sociolinguistics" and "pragmatics".
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Personal website
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International Pragmatics Association plenary lecture
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Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies series
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International Pragmatics Association Consultation Board
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Fields of interest
- Pragmatics
- Sociolinguistics
- Cognitive Linguistics
- Im/politeness
- Language ideologies
- Language attitudes
- Cross-cultural communication
- Historical sociolinguistics of Greek
Research
As a sociolinguist and pragmatician with interests that branch out to the philosophy of language and experimental pragmatics, I am committed to studying language as always in flux shaped by individual cognition and agency, on the one hand, and larger societal dynamics, on the other.
A second guiding principle of my academic work is enriching the linguistic canon (be that at the level of data or scholarly work) with voices from non-Western perspectives and non-standard varieties. I firmly believe this makes not only for more ethical engagement with those we serve, our colleagues, and students, but also for more open-minded science, able to accommodate multiple causation and explanation of linguistic phenomena. In this vein, I teach and publish on Ethics in Linguistics (e.g., Lorentz workshop 2022; LOT winterschool 2024, special issue of "Linguistics" (de Gruyter, 2025)).
Currently, I am supervising 8 doctoral students working on various topics in pragmatics and sociolinguistics. I am also keenly interested in projects aiming to elucidate the nature of social meaning and its relationship to more traditional typologies of pragmatic meaning from a performativity/social constructionist and cross-cultural perspective (panels at IPrA 2023 & 2025, special issue of "Journal of Pragmatics", 2025).
Grants and awards
2024: Research Traineeship, Leiden Faculty of Humanities “Arabic papyri and politeness” (co-P.I. Petra Sijpestein).
2022: Lorentz Center workshop “Ethics in Linguistics”.P.I. 25 invited participants from Africa, Australia, USA, and Europe (9-13 May 2022).
2021: Research Traineeship, Leiden Faculty of Humanities “Leiden Wall Poems: a Mixed Methods Study of their History, Reception and Impact” (co-P.I. Jan Sleutels).
2019: Research Traineeship, Leiden Faculty of Humanities “Istanbul Greek: documenting a language variety of early cosmopolitanism in its last stages”. (co-P.I. Deniz Tat).
2018: Research Traineeship, Leiden Faculty of Humanities “The interface of cognition and emotion: A Dutch-Japanese comparative study”. (co-P.I. Wataru Uegaki).
2015: SLCL Undergraduate Research award, University of Illinois “Meaning making on the internet: a preliminary investigation.”
2012: National Science Foundation (USA) “Experimental and empirical approaches to grammatical expressions of speaker attitude.” (co-P.I. Kiel Christianson).
2012: European Science Foundation/EURO-XPRAG Network “Why imply something when you can say it explicitly?” (co-P.I. Napoleon Katsos).
2012: William and Flora Hewlett Foundation “Experimental and Empirical Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness.” Hewlett International Conference grant.
2009: Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) “Lost in Intonation: The interaction of intonation and meaning in the speech of L1, L2 and heritage speakers of Greek and its implications for cross-cultural communication and education.” P.I.
2009: Campus Research Board Award, University of Illinois: “The languages of global hip-hop: a sociolinguistic investigation.”
2007: Small Research Grant, British Academy “Language contact in medieval Cyprus.” Co-P.I. (P.I. Ioanna Sitaridou)
2007: International Research Travel Grant, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation “Language contact in medieval Cyprus: The linguistic record.”
2006: Research Grant, Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) “Integrating pragmatics with HPSG: An exploration of theoretical and methodological issues” (P.I. Ann Copestake).
2003: Small Research Grant, British Academy (UK) “Modeling politeness in a Greek HPSG” (P.I. Ann Copestake).
Curriculum vitae
After training in Europe (PhD Cambridge, 2001), I obtained my tenure at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the US in 2012. Since 2017, I have been based at Leiden University, where I hold the chair of Sociolinguistics. Coupled with visiting professorships in China, France, Greece, Sweden, and elsewhere, this multi-country trajectory has helped me build a rich inventory of teaching and research experience.
My publications and teaching span the range from language contact in the medieval Mediterranean (Diachronica, 2005) to digitally-mediated communication and multimodality (Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 2015; Journal of Greek Linguistics, 2021, i.a.), taking in broad surveys of geographical regions (undergraduate courses on North America) and linguistic subfields (Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics, 2021 (co-ed.); Oxford Bibliography on Sociopragmatics, 2023; entries in Routledge Handbook of Linguistics, 2015 and Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics, 2012, i.a.).
In addition to a broad gamut of courses in sociolinguistics and pragmatics, I have taught courses on Language and trust, Ethics in Linguistics, and the languages of the Mediterranean. Several of my former graduate students hold tenured positions in the US.
Having served the field in various positions, including first woman co-editor in chief of the Journal of Pragmatics (2017-2021) and member of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) consultation board (elected 2023-), I am intimately acquainted with the complexities of academic publishing and mentoring is an integral part of my work. I am convinced about the need to create a level playing field for incoming scholars based on the quality of their work and not where they hail from, geographically or socially and strive to strike a balance between helpfulness (to the recipient), fairness (to others), and a critical eye (to the work) in my assessments.
Selected publications
- (2024) The strategic/non-strategic binary in im/politeness research. Journal of Politeness Research 20, 111–134.
- (2023, with M-B. Mosegaard-Hansen) We need to talk about Hearer’s Meaning! Journal of Pragmatics 208, 99-114.
- (2021) Pragmatics as an interdisciplinary field. Journal of Pragmatics 179, 77–84.
- (2021, ed. with M. Haugh & D. Kadar) Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- (2020, with B. Weissman & J. Roy) Different scalar terms are affected by face differently. International Review of Pragmatics 12, 1–43.
- (2019, with F. Ameka) What if…? Imagining non-Western perspectives on pragmatic theory and practice. Journal of Pragmatics 145, 72-82.
- (2019, with B. Weissman) Are false implicatures lies? An empirical investigation. Mind & Language 34, 221-246.
- (2017, with J. Culpeper) Pragmatic approaches (im) politeness. The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)politeness, 11-39.
- (2015) Conventionalization: A new agenda for im/politeness research. Journal of Pragmatics 86, 11-18.
- (2011) The pragmatic variable: Toward a procedural interpretation. Language in Society 40, 343-372.
- (2011) The puzzle of indirect speech: A Reply to Steven Pinker. Journal of Pragmatics 43, 2861-2865.
- (2011) Thank you, Sorry and Please in Cypriot Greek: What happens to politeness markers when they are borrowed across languages? Journal of Pragmatics 43, 218-235.
- (2011) From politeness1 to politeness2: Tracking norms of im/politeness across time and space. Journal of Politeness Research 7, 159-185.
- (2010, ed.) The Languages of Global Hip hop. Bloomsbury.
- (2008) Toward a unified theory of politeness, impoliteness, and rudeness. In: D. Bousfield & M. Locher (eds.) Impoliteness in language, 54–89.
- (2007) Toward a universal notion of face for a universal notion of cooperation. In: L. Horn & I. Kesckes (eds.) Explorations in pragmatics: Linguistic, cognitive and intercultural aspects. 313-344.
- (2005) Beyond the micro-level in politeness research. Journal of Politeness Research 1, 237-262.
- (2005) Understanding the present through the past: Processes of koineisation in Cyprus. Diachronica 22, 309-372.
- (2005) An argument for a frame-based approach to politeness: Evidence from the use of the imperative in Cypriot Greek. In: R. Lakoff & S. Ide (eds.) Broadening the horizon of linguistic politeness, 99-116.
- (2003) Generalised and particularised implicatures of linguistic politeness. In: P. Kühnlein, R. Hannes & H. Zeevat (eds.) Perspectives on dialogue in the new millennium, 149-164.
- (2002) Politeness and formulaicity: evidence from Cypriot Greek. Journal of Greek Linguistics 3, 179-201.
Professor Sociolinguistics
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Univ Centre for Linguistics
- LUCL Taalwetenschap
- Terkourafi M. (2024), The strategic/non-strategic binary in im/politeness research, Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture 20(1): 111–134.
- Terkourafi M. (2023), A speech-act theoretic analysis of white (pro-social) lies. In: Caponetto L. & Labinaz P. (Ed.), Sbisà on Speech as Action no. Philosophers in Depth series. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan. 1-23.
- Mosegaard-Hansen M-B. & Terkourafi M. (2023), We need to talk about Hearer’s Meaning!, Journal of Pragmatics 208: 99-114.
- Terkourafi M. & Delbar N. (2023), Oxford Bibliography on Sociopragmatics, Oxford Bibliographies in Linguistics : .
- Mouresioti E. & Terkourafi M. (2021), Καλημέρα, kalimera or kalhmera?: A mixed methods study of Greek native speakers' attitudes to using the Greek and Roman scripts in emails and SMS. , Journal of Greek Linguistics 21: 1-39.
- Terkourafi M. (2021), Pragmatics as an interdisciplinary field, Journal of Pragmatics 179: 77-84.
- Terkourafi M. & Bezuidenhout A. (Eds.) (2021), Special issue: (Im)politeness, humour, and the role of intentions: Essays presented to Michael Haugh. Journal of Pragmatics. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
- Haugh M., Kadar D.Z. & Terkourafi M. (Eds.) (2021), The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Terkourafi M. (2021), Inference and implicature. In: Haugh M., Kadar D.Z. & Terkourafi M. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 30-47.
- Haugh M., Kádár D.Z. & Terkourafi M. (2021), Introduction: directions in sociopragmatics. In: Haugh M., Kádár D.Z. & Terkourafi M. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics. Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1-12.
- Terkourafi M., Weissman B. & Roy J. (2020), Different scalar terms are affected by face differently, International Review of Pragmatics 12(1): 1-43.
- Ameka F.K. & Terkourafi M. (2019), What if…? Imagining non-Western perspectives on pragmatic theory and practice, Journal of Pragmatics 145: 72-82.
- Terkourafi M. & Haugh M. (2019), Editorial: “Quo Vadis, Pragmatics?”, Journal of Pragmatics 145: 1-3.
- Terkourafi M. (2019), Coming to grips with variation in sociocultural interpretations: methodological considerations, Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 50(10): 1198-1215.
- Terkourafi M. (2019), Indirectness in the age of globalization: A social network analysis, Russian Journal of Linguistics 23(4): 930-949.
- Terkourafi M. (2019), Im/politeness: A 21st Century Appraisal, Foreign Languages and Their Teaching 1(6): 1-17.
- Armostis S. & Terkourafi M. (2019), Not all positive: on the landscape of thanking items in Cypriot Greek. In: Ogiermann E. & Pilar G.B. (Eds.), From speech acts to lay understandings of politeness : Multilingual and Multicultural Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 117–145.
- Terkourafi M. & Lord S. (2018), Tracking opinion convergence online: the effect of facial attractiveness, Internet Pragmatics 1(1): 88-112.
- Terkourafi M., Catedral L., Haider I., Karimzad F., Melgares J., Mostacero C., Nelson J. & Weissman B. (2018), Uncivil Twitter: A sociopragmatic analysis, Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 6(1): 26-57.
- Terkourafi M. (2018), Lying and Politeness. In: Meibauer J. (Ed.), The handbook of lying. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 382–396.
- Benjamin Weissman & Terkourafi M. (2018), Are false implicatures lies? An empirical investigation, Mind & Language 34(2): 221-246.
- Terkourafi M. & Kadar D. (2017), Convention and ritual. In: Culpeper J., Haugh M. & Kadar D. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)Politeness. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 171-195.
- Culpeper J. & Terkourafi M. (2017), Pragmatic Approaches (Im)politeness. In: Culpeper J., Haugh M. & Kadar D. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Linguistic (Im)Politeness. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 11-39.
- Terkourafi M. (Ed.) (2015), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness. AILA Applied Linguistics Series no. 14. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
- Terkourafi M. (2015), Conventionalization: A new agenda for im/politeness research, Journal of Pragmatics 86: 11-18.
- Vergis N. & Terkourafi M. (2015), The role of the speaker’s emotional state in im/politeness assessments, Journal of Language and Social Psychology 34(3): 316-342.
- Terkourafi M. (2015), The linguistics of politeness and social relations. In: Allan K. (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Linguistics. London: Routledge. 221-235.
- Terkourafi M. (2015), Introduction. In: Terkourafi M. (Ed.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness. AILA Applied Linguistics Series no. 14. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. vii-xi.
- Barros Garcia M.J. & Terkourafi M. (2015), Combining self-report and role-play data in sociopragmatics research: towards a methodological synthesis. In: Beeching K. & Woodfield H. (Eds.), Researching Sociopragmatic Variability. Basingstoke: Palgrave. 230-250.
- Vergis N. & Terkourafi M. (2015), The M-word: a Greek collocation between solidarity and insult. In: Terkourafi M. (Ed.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness. AILA Applied Linguistics Series no. 14. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 41-70.
- Terkourafi M. (2015), Review of: Leech G. (2014), The Pragmatics of Politeness: Oxford University Press. Language 91(4): 957-960.
- Terkourafi M. (2014), The importance of being indirect: A new nomenclature for indirect speech, Belgian Journal of Linguistics 28(1): 45-70.
- Barros García M.J. & Terkourafi M. (2014), What, when and how? Spanish native and nonnative uses of politeness, Sociocultural Pragmatics 8(2): 262-292.
- Soltys J., Terkourafi M. & Katsos N. (2014), Disentangling politeness theory and the strategic speaker approach, Intercultural Pragmatics 11(1): 31-56.
- Barros-Garcia M. & Terkourafi M. (2014), First-order politeness in rapprochement and distancing cultures: Understandings and uses of politeness by Spanish native speakers from Spain and Spanish nonnative speakers from the U.S, Pragmatics 24(1): 1-34.
- Terkourafi M. (2013), Re-assessing the Speech Act Schema: Twenty-first century reflections, International Review of Pragmatics 5(2): 197-216.
- Wu D. & Terkourafi M. (2013), Performances of gender in Nyshu: A women’s script in China, Linguistic Research 12: 215-236.
- Vergis N. & Terkourafi M. (2013), Rhoticization and gender stereotyping in a rural community in Crete. Janse M., Joseph B., Ralli A. & Bagriacik M. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory. . Patras 499-523.
- Terkourafi M., Kapnoula E., Protopapas A. & Panagiotopoulou P. (2013), Triangulating the GRID: A corpus-based cognitive linguistic analysis of Greek emotion terms. In: Scherer K. & Soriano C. (Eds.), Components of Emotional Meaning: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 437-449.
- Panagiotopoulou P., Terkourafi M. & Protopapas A. (2013), Familiarity and disappointment: A culture-specific dimension of emotional experience in Greece?. In: Scherer K. & Soriano C. (Eds.), Components of Emotional Meaning: A Sourcebook. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 467-472.
- Terkourafi M. (2013), Review of: Culpeper J. (2011), Historical Sociopragmatics: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Journal of Sociolinguistics 17(1): 130-133.
- Terkourafi M. (2012), Between Pragmatics and Sociolinguistics: Where does pragmatic variation fit in?. In: Felix-Brasdefer C. & Koike D. (Eds.), Pragmatic Variation in First and Second Language Contexts: Methodological Issues.. IMPACT studies in language and society. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 295-318.
- Terkourafi M. (2012), Politeness and pragmatics. In: Jaszczolt K. & Allan K. (Eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 617-637.
- Terkourafi M. (2011), The puzzle of indirect speech, Journal of Pragmatics 43(11): 2861-2865.
- Terkourafi M. (2011), Why indirect speech is not a natural default: Rejoinder to Steven Pinker’s "Indirect Speech, Politeness, Deniability, and Relationship Negotiation", Journal of Pragmatics 43(11): 2869-2871.
- Terkourafi M. (2011), From Politeness1 to Politeness2: Tracking norms of im/politeness across time and space, Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture 7(2): 159-185.
- Terkourafi M. (2011), The pragmatic variable: toward a procedural interpretation, Language in Society 40(4): 343-372.
- Terkourafi M. (2011), Thank you, sorry, and please in Cypriot Greek: What happens to politeness markers when they are borrowed across languages?, Journal of Pragmatics 43(1): 218-235.
- Terkourafi M. (Ed.) (2010), The Language(s) of Global Hip-Hop. Advances in Sociolinguistics no. 53. London: Continuum.
- Terkourafi M., Hadjidemetriou C. & Vasilopoulou A. (2010), Special issue on Greek Conversation Analysis, Journal of Greek Linguistics 10(2): .
- Terkourafi M. (2010), Δομικοί και ιδεολογικοί παράγοντες στην κατασκευή της διαφορετικότητας της κυπριακής.(=Structural and ideological factors in the construction of the difference of Cypriot Greek). Goutsos D. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Symposium 'The Greek language in Cyprus'. . Athens: University of Athens. 213-227.
- Terkourafi M. (2010), Don’t go V-ing in Cypriot Greek: semantic, pragmatic and prosodic aspects of a prohibitive construction, Constructions and Frames 2(2): 208-241.
- Terkourafi M. (2010), What is said from different points of view, Language and Linguistics Compass 4(8): 705-718.
- Vasilopoulou A., Hadjidemetriou C. & Terkourafi M. (2010), Introducing Greek Conversation Analysis, Journal of Greek Linguistics 10(2): 155-183.
- Terkourafi M. & Petrakis S. (2010), A critical look at the desktop metaphor 30 years on. In: Deignan A., Cameron L., Low G. & Todd Z. (Eds.), Researching and Applying Metaphor in the Real World. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 145-164.
- Terkourafi M. (2010), Introduction: A fresh look at some old questions. In: Terkourafi M. (Ed.), The Language(s) of Global Hip Hop. London: Continuum. 1-18.
- Copestake A. & Terkourafi M. (2010), Conventional speech act formulae: from corpus findings to formalization. In: Kühnlein P., Benz A. & Sidner C. (Eds.), Constraints in Discourse 2. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 125-140.
- Garley M., Slade B. & Terkourafi M. (2009), A text in speech’s clothing: Discovering specific functions of formulaic expressions in Beowulf and blogs. In: Wood D. (Ed.), Perspectives on Formulaic Language and Second Language Speech Fluency. London: Continuum. 213-233.
- Sitaridou I. & Terkourafi M. (2009), On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek: language contact or internal evolution?. In: Dufresne M., Dupuis F. & Vocaj E. (Eds.), Historical Linguistics 2007. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory no. 308. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 161-173.
- Terkourafi M. (2009), Variationist methodology in pragmatics: (how) can it be done?, Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. no. 45. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 609-623.
- Garley M., Slade B. & Terkourafi M. (2009), Hwæt! LOL! Common formulaic functions in Beowulf and blogs, Proceedings of the 45th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society. no. 45. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society. 111-126.
- Terkourafi M. (2009), On de-limiting context. In: Bergs A. & Diewald G. (Eds.), Context and Constructions. Constructional Approaches to Language no. 9. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 17-42.
- Terkourafi M. (2009), What use is what is said?. In: Brabanter P. de & Kissine M. (Eds.), Utterance Interpretation and Cognitive Models. Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface no. 20. Bingley: Emerald. 27-58.
- Terkourafi M. (2009), Finding face between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft: Greek perceptions of the in-group. In: Haugh M. & Bargiela-Chiappini F. (Eds.), Face, Communication, and Social Interaction. London: Equinox. 269-288.
- Terkourafi M. (2009), Γλώσσες στη βενετική Κύπρο’ (=Languages in Venetian Cyprus). In: Konnari A. (Ed.), La Serenissima e la Nobilissima: Venice in Cyprus and Cyprus in Venice. Lefkosia: Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation. 143-154.
- Terkourafi M. (2009), Conventionality. In: Cummings L. (Ed.), The Pragmatics Encyclopedia. London: Routledge. 79-81.
- Terkourafi M. (2009), Politeness. In: Chapman S. & Routledge C. (Eds.), Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 157-161.
- Terkourafi M. (2009), Conventional meaning. In: Chapman S. & Routledge C. (Eds.), Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 28-29.
- Terkourafi M. (2009), Emic/Etic. In: Chapman S. & Routledge C. (Eds.), Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. 66-66.
- Terkourafi M. (2008), Toward a unified theory of politeness, impoliteness, and rudeness. In: Bousfield D. & Locher M. (Eds.), Impoliteness in language. Language, Power and Social Process no. 21. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 54-89.
- Terkourafi M. (2008), Review of: Verhagen A. (2005), Constructions of Intersubjectivity: Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition: Oxford University Press. Journal of Pragmatics 40(8): 1478–1485.
- Terkourafi M. (2007), Toward a universal notion of face for a universal notion of co-operation. In: Kecskes I. & Horn L. (Eds.), Explorations in Pragmatics: Linguistic, Cognitive and Intercultural Aspects. Mouton Series in Pragmatics no. 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 313-344.
- Terkourafi M. (2007), Perceptions of difference in the Greek sphere: the case of Cypriot Greek, Journal of Greek Linguistics 8: 60-96.
- Terkourafi M. & Bali P. (2007), Speaking of pain in Greek: implications for the cognitive permeation of emotions, Cognition and Emotion 21(8): 1-34.
- Terkourafi M. (2006), The interplay of social and regional variation in Cyprus: a diachronic perspective. Janse M., Joseph B. & Aggeliki R. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second International Conference of Modern Greek Dialects and Linguistic Theory. : University of Patras. 379-394.
- Terkourafi M. & Copestake A. (2006), Conventional speech act formulae: from corpus findings to formalization. Sidner C., Harpur J., Benz A. & Kühnlein P. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Workshop on Constraints in Discourse. . Maynooth: National University of Ireland. 51-58.
- Terkourafi M. (2006), Review of: Watts R. (2003), Politeness: Cambridge University Press. Journal of Pragmatics 38(3): 418-428.
- Terkourafi M. (Ed.) (2005), An English-Greek dictionary of false friends / Αγγλοελληνικό Λεξικό Ψευδόφιλων Μονάδων. Athens: Athens University Press.
- Terkourafi M. (2005), An argument for a frame-based approach to politeness: evidence from the use of the imperative in Cypriot Greek. In: Lakoff R. & Sachiko I. (Eds.), Broadening the Horizon of Linguistic Politeness. PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES no. 139. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 99-116.
- Terkourafi M. (2005), Pragmatic correlates of frequency of use: the case for a notion of ‘minimal context’. In: Nikiforidou K., Marmaridou S. & Antonopoulou E. (Eds.), Reviewing Linguistic Thought: Converging Trends for the 21st Century. Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs no. 116. Berlin: de Gruyter. 209-233.
- Terkourafi M. (2005), Politeness in Cyprus. In: Hickey L. & Stewart M. (Eds.), Politeness in Europe. Multilingual Matters no. 127. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters. 277-291.
- Terkourafi M. (2005), Εισαγωγή / Introduction (in Greek & in English). In: Terkourafi M. (Ed.), An English-Greek Dictionary of False Friends/Αγγλοελληνικό Λεξικό Ψευδόφιλων Μονάδων. Athens: Athens University Press. ix-xxii.
- Terkourafi M. (2005), Socialising Grice: on interlocutors’ reasons for co-operating in conversation, Cambridge Occasional Papers in Linguistics (COPiL). no. 2 235-247.
- Terkourafi M. (2005), Beyond the micro-level in politeness research, Journal of Politeness Research: Language, Behaviour, Culture 1(2): 237-262.
- Terkourafi M. (2005), Understanding the present through the past: processes of koineisation on Cyprus, Diachronica. International Journal for Historical Linguistics 22(2): 309-372.
- Terkourafi M. (2005), Identity and semantic change: aspects of T/V usage in Cyprus, Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6(2): 283-306.
- Terkourafi M. (2004), The Cypriot koine: a recent development?. Catsimali G., Anagnostopoulou E., Kalokerinos A. & Kappa I. (Eds.), Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of Greek Linguistics. . Rethymno: Linguistics Lab e-book.
- Terkourafi M. (2004), Testing Brown and Levinson’s theory in a corpus of conversational data from Cypriot Greek, International Journal of the Sociology of Language 168: 119-134.
- Terkourafi M. (2004), Review of: Bayraktaroğlu A. & Sifianou M. (2001), Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The Case of Greek and Turkish: John Benjamins Publishing Company. Language in Society 33(2): 303-307.
- Terkourafi M. (2004), Politeness and Cooperation: the view from Cypriot Greek, Studies in Greek Linguistics. no. 24. Thessaloniki: Kyriakides. 682-692.
- Terkourafi M. (2003), Generalised and particularised implicatures of linguistic politeness. In: Kühnlein P., Rieser H. & Zeevat H. (Eds.), Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium. PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES no. 114. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 149-164.
- Terkourafi M. & Villavicencio A. (2003), Toward a formalisation of speech act functions of questions in conversation. Bernardi R. & Michael M. (Eds.), Questions and Answers: Theoretical and Applied Perspectives. : Utrecht Institute of Linguistics OTS. 108-119.
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