Pavlidou Theodossia-Soula

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CV

Rank:

Professor Emerita

Tel.:

2310 991315

Email:

pavlidou@lit.auth.gr

Office:

106Α New Building, Fuculty of Philosophy

PROFILE

After completing a major in Physics (Carleton College, Minn., USA, 1965-1969), I returned to Europe, where my “linguistic turn” took place, leading to a PhD degree (1977) from the University of Bonn, Germany. Since then, linguistic communication has been at the center of my research and teaching interests. My work lies at the interface of pragmatics and sociolinguistics, and the topics I have published on include classroom interaction, indexicality, language and gender, phatic commun(icat)ion, politeness, questions, subjectivity, telephone talk, etc., as well as gender studies.

Since 1980 I have been working at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where I served inter alia as elected Chair of the School of Philology, Head of the Linguistics Department, and Director of the (Post)graduate Studies Program of the School of Philology. As of October 2014, I am professor emerita at A.U.Th., where I still offer (post)graduate courses in the Department of Linguistics. Since 2005, I have been serving as member of the Board of Directors of the Institute of Modern Greek Studies (Manolis Triandafyllidis Foundation).

I have also taught and given talks at numerous universities and international conferences, and have been working as a visiting scholar at the Universities of Berkeley, Berlin, Bonn, Haifa, Lancaster, Melbourne, Roskilde, UCLA, etc. Moreover, I have held several appointments as a visiting professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, in the Department of Modern Greek Studies.

A great part of my research revolves around the project Greek talk-in-interaction and Conversation Analysis that I am directing at the Institute of Modern Greek Studies (Manolis Triandafyllidis Foundation). In this context, I compiled the Corpus of Spoken Greek (http://ins.web.auth.gr/index.php?lang=en&Itemid=251) and launched the book series Studies in Spoken Greek. The transcribed part of the Corpus of Spoken Greek is currently over 2 million words. It has been recently enriched with interviews and discussions that I have conducted with diaspora Greeks during my two-month visit at the University of Melbourne in 2018.

My publications include the volumes