Maria Kakridi-Ferrari

Assistant professor of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis

Department of Linguistics

School of Philosophy

Curriculum vitae

1. Education

1977: BA in Linguistics (Honours), University of Athens

1977-1979: Diplme d tudes Approfondies en Linguistique, Department of

Linguistics, University Ren Descartes, Sorbonne (Paris V)

1998: PhD in Linguistics, University of Athens.

Thesis title: Repetition: Its function as a basic mechanism in language

2. Professional experience

1980: Research assistant, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology

1992: Research assistant (tenure track), Department of Linguistics, Faculty of

Philology

1999: Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology

2005: Assistant professor of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis, Department of

Linguistics, Faculty of Philology

3. Teaching

Undergraduate teaching. Courses taught: Theoretical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics,

Academic Writing

Postgraduate teaching:

Programme of Postgraduate Studies in Theoretical/Applied Linguistics.

Courses taught: Pragmatic, discourse and social parameters of language (Basic

principles of Discourse Analysis), Language planning and language policy :

theoretical principles and applications, Language planning and language policy

I: standardization (theory and applications), Dialectology, Issues on

sociolinguistics, Language change.

Interdepartmental Programme of Postgraduate Studies in Teaching Greek as a

Foreign Language. Courses taught: Sociolinguistics, Research methodology:

writing a dissertation.

Inter-disciplinary Programme of Postgraduate Studies on Language

technology. Courses taught: Text structure (written and spoken discourse),

Introduction to linguistics.

MA thesis supervision.

PhD thesis supervision.

4. Research

Inter-disciplinary Programme Technoglossia of Postgraduate Studies on

Language technology. National Technical University of Athens and National and

Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1998-1999 (see postgraduate teaching).

Scientific consultant for the production of education material on the sociolects of

Modern Greek (film production). Education Institute of Greece, 1999-2000.

Participant in the programme of electronic gateway on language classes in

secondary education. Action 4.4: Electronic Journal ,

Centre for Greek Language, 1999-2000. Contributor on Language variation and

school language, in co-operation with Demetra Kati and Vassiliki Nikiforidou,

and book reviews, in co-operation with Kostas Kanakis).

Participant in the programme of electronic gateway for the Greek language,

Centre for Greek language, in the frame of the project Society of Information.

Contributor on Dialect, Language attitudes and critical review of sources.

5. Administration

Faculty of Philology Board member

Member of postgraduate committee of the Department of Linguistics and the Faculty

of Philology

Transfer student committee member of the Faculty of Philology

Member of admissions committee of postgraduate programme in General and Applied

Linguistics, Department of Linguistics

6. Membership in professional committees

Member of several conference research committees, scientific journals, edited

volumes etc.

7. Publications

. 1986: : . [=

The social approach to language: Sociolinguistics] 144, 21/5/1986, 38-

40.

-FERRARI . & . - 1996:

. [= Language variation and

the teaching of Modern Greek as a foreign language]

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17-51.

- . 1998: :

. [= Repetition: Its function as a basic mechanism in language] PhD

thesis, Department of Linguistics, University of Athens.

., . , . 1999:

. [= Language variation and school education]

. 1, . 1 (

), 1999, 103-112.

. 2000: , . [= Norm, language

variety and education]. . 2, . 1-2 (

), 2000, 161-167.

- . 2001: . [= Translation of foreign terms]

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203-205 (. www.komvos.edu.gr : -

).

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languages] , . .

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- . 2002 [2003]:

: . [= Repetition phenomena in

the discourse of different speakers: validation repetition] 14, 103-

116. [Also, published in abridged form in Christos CLAIRIS (.),

, 5

, , 13-15 2001, : L

Harmattan 2002, 255-258.]

KAKRIDI -FERRARI M. 2002: La lingua greco-moderna nel quadro europeo

contemporaneo. Quaderni del Premio Letterario Giuseppe Acerbi , numero 3,

anno 3 (10a edizione: Grecia). Comune di Castel Goffredo: Associazione

Giuseppe Acerbi, 90-92.

- 2005: :

( ). [= Language and social context. Issues of

sociolinguistics] , . 64. .

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, 2006 (

, 1, 5:

). www.greek-language.gr.

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5: ). www.greek-language.gr.

- 2006: :

. [= Modern Greek dialects in public discourse:

instances of their treatment] . &

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, 2004-2005], . . :

, 53-65.

- (2007):

. [= Symbolic dimensions in the realization of the

genitive of foreign forms] -

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132.

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version: peculiarities, resistances, reinterpretations]

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, 23 & 24

2005, 199-223.

- 2007:

. [= Language stereotypes and social prejudices] ,

, 2 [20] 2000, , , 63-78.

- (2008): :

. [= Orthographic reforms: attitudes and resistance]

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- (2008): :

. [= Repetition and

natural discourse: the role of repetition patterns in conversation] ,

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, 374-388.

(2010): .

. [= Language debates in

Greek national examinations] &

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(2010): .

. [= Monotonic writing. Its establishment and new language

conservatism] & (.

.), 80. ,

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, . [= Youth language.

Recognition, acceptance and critique of youth idioms]

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MARIA KAKRIDI -FERRARI (forthcoming): Quelques questions sur la dynamique de la

standardisation en grec moderne. Paper given at the International Conference

Processus et typologie de standardisation linguistique: Balkans et Mditerrane,

Paris, INALCO, 6-7 April 2012.

Books reviewed

Josiane Boutet, , . -

, : , 1984. 2-3,

1983-1984 [1985], 195-198.

aria Sifianou, Politeness Phenomena in England and Greece. A Cross - Cultural

Perspective, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. 9-10, 1990-1991

[1994], 288-292.

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[ ], 2001.

- 21 (. ), 8/12/2001.

Georgakopoulou Alexandra & Marianna Spanaki (eds.), A Reader in Greek

Sociolinguistics (Studies in Modern Greek Language, Culture and

Communication), Oxford, Bern, Berlin etc.: Peter Lang, 2001. Journal of

Sociolinguistics 7/1, 2003, 114-118.

. . (.), . :

, 2003. ,

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, 2006 (

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). www.greek-language.gr.

Other work

Lemmas in linguistics in encyclopedias, newspaper and journal articles, University

lecture notes on Sociolinguistics.