• 21-23 May 2021
  ΦΥΛ.ΙΣ/Thessaloniki

  

  'Public Speech: Language, Gender and Identity', Invited Talk. 2021 ΦΥΛ.ΙΣ/Thessaloniki, AUTH. Workshop ‘Gender in Public Speech’. ΦΥΛ.ΙΣ.

  Βασιζόμενοι σε αγγλικά δεδομένα, καταδεικνύεται ότι ακόμη κ σε ‘προηγμένες’ ή εξαιρετικά εγγράμματες (literate) κοινωνίες, όπως αυτή της Βρετανίας (ΗΒ), υπάρχει έντονος γλωσσικός σεξισμός προς το γυναικείο φύλο, απαξιώνοντας στα ΜΜΕ ακόμη και γυναίκες που μάχονται για την αρχηγία πολιτικού κόμματος (στην προκειμένη περίπτωση του Εργατικού κόμματος, 2015). Στη συνέχεια επισκοπείται η γενική σύγχυση που επικρατεί στον έντυπο δημόσιο λόγο αναφορικά με τις ερωτήσεις περί φύλου (αιτήσεις για εργασία, κλπ.) αλλά κυρίως παρουσιάζεται η σχετική έρευνα που διεξήχθη προκειμένου να διαμορφωθεί η ερώτηση περί φύλου στην πρόσφατη Απογραφή πληθυσμού της Βρετανίας (Census 2021), παρουσιάζονται τα προβλήματα κ η σχετική κριτική. Επισημαίνεται ότι η ειδικότερη έμφαση στον αμφιλεγόμενο χώρο του φύλου μπορεί να αποπροσανατολίζει κ να διαχέει τη συγκεκριμενοποίηση μεταβλητών, με κίνδυνο να εκτρέπονται πόροι από τους τομείς της καταπολέμησης του σεξισμού προς το γυναικείο φύλο κ της διατομεακότητας (intersectionality) των ταυτοτήτων που επιφέρει επιπρόσθετα κοινωνικά προβλήματα λόγω των διακρίσεων που δημιουργούνται.

• 2018
  London, SLT Philosophy Forum

  Eliza Kitis (with Lynn-Marie Harper). How do we Mean in Language? Earlier and later Wittgenstein presented/compared, Stuart Low Trust, Philosophy Forum (18 March, 2018), Public Philosophy Workshop
• 2014, Populismus
  Thessaloniki, Greece, Populismus

  

  Populismus. Analysing populist discourse. Methods/Tools/Interpretation.

  Title of presentation: 'Populism and ‘λαϊκισµός’ through the linguist's lens'

  A video of the workshop is available here (Professor Kitis presentation starts at 2:10:15).
  Populismus. Analysing populist discourse. Methods/Tools/Interpretation.

  Title of presentation: 'Populism and ‘λαϊκισµός’ through the linguist's lens'

• 2010
  Łódź, Poland, New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics

  

  7-9 May 2010, 5th Lodz Symposium: New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics, (plenary lecture)

  Title of plenary lecture: ‘Constructional conjunction’

• 2008
  Bulgaria, Sozopol

  

  6-16 September, Southeast European Centre for Semiotic Studies at New Bulgaria University

  14^th Early Fall School in Semiotics “Sociosemiotics”, (invited teaching)

  Course title: ‘From signs to the world: How we construct reality’

• 2007
  Brazil, São Paulo, Translation

  

  Unibero 14-17 May, 2007, 4th CIATI,  Conference on Translation

  Title of plenary lecture: ‘The pragmatics of translation’, IV Ibero-American Conference: The Process of Translation – A Never-ending Story

• 2006
  Konstanz, Germany

  

  24 August, 2006, Workshop on the Interface between Lexical and Discourse Semantics

  Title of plenary lecture: ‘Connectives as constructions’

• 2006
  Sweden, Växjö University

  

  5 December 2006

  Faculty Seminar, Title: ‘Implicature, Intention and Contextual Assumptions’ (invited seminar)

  Graduate Seminar in Pragmatics, Title: ‘Identifying Implicature’

• 17-19 April 2015
  BALEAP 2015, Leicester: ‘Teaching materials and metacognitive awareness’ (poster)

  

  http://baleap2015.weebly.com/
  Teaching materials and metacognitive awareness

  This presentation targets new EAP tutors, but -why not- also experienced ones as it shows how we can use Corpus Linguistics (CL) methodology in an unobtrusive (for our students) way to substantiate claims that may sound just theoretical and unconvincing for our students. Additionally, CL methodology may even shake assumed confidence that may block the learning process. My pragmatics expertise is also drawn upon in teasing out subtle meanings (hues or functions) of elements that have been accounted for and are taught in a more wholesale way in the field.

  More specifically, I present how to develop course material to teach conjunctive adverbials in a way that raises learners’ metacognitive awareness. Using corpus methodology, we can dispel some myths surrounding learners’, including native speakers’, relevant beliefs, and raise their awareness about the function and proper use of those items in their writing. This meta-awareness is also expected to help them see how these elements can be vehicles for inferencing, elaboration and further relational coherence in their writing. The rather recent methodology of corpus linguistics is used to substantiate claims and will also draw on pragmatics in revealing those elements’ diverse functions.

• 2014
  International Workshop

  

  11-13 July, International Workshop, Aristotle University

  Populismus. Analysing populist discourse. Methods/Tools/Interpretation

  Title of presentation: ‘Populism and ‘λαϊκισµός’ through the linguist’s lens’

  A video of the workshop is available here (Professor Kitis presentation starts at 2:10:15).

• 2014
  35th Annual Meeting for Greek Linguistics

  

  8-10 May 2014, Dept. of Linguistics, Aristotle University

  Title of presentation: ‘Street slogans as a specific anarchist genre’

  Program’s outline is available here

• 2011
  12th International Pragmatics Conference

  

  3-8 July, Manchester, U.K. (With E-D. Kitis)

  Title of presentation: ‘Gentrifying slogan genres in political discourse’

• 2010
  4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics

  

  15-17 November, Madrid

  Title of presentation: ‘A reconsideration of conventional implicature and its implication for speech act theory’.

  Corpus of Language and Nature [clan]

• 2008
  7th International HASE Conference: The Individual and the Mass

  

  30^th May to 1^st June 2008, (With E-D. Kitis),

  Title of presentation: ‘Street slogans: Towards a performative analysis of a marginalized discourse’.

  HASE Conference

• 2008
  Language, Communication & Cognition Language

  

  4-7 Aug, Brighton, (Cognitive Linguistics association of UK)  (With E-D. Kitis)

  Title of presentation: ‘Street slogans: An attempt at interpreting a marginalized discourse and culture’.

• 2007
  10th ICLC (International Cognitive Linguistics Conference)

  

  15-20 July, Krakow

  Title of presentation: ‘Emotions and discursivity’.

• 2007
  10th IPrA (International Pragmatics Conference)

  

  8-13 July, Gotheburgh, Sweden

  Title of presentation: ‘Emotions as discursive constructs’.

• 2014
  International Workshop

  

  11-13 July, International Workshop, Aristotle University

  Populismus. Analysing populist discourse. Methods/Tools/Interpretation

  Title of presentation: ‘Populism and ‘λαϊκισµός’ through the linguist’s lens’

  A video of the workshop is available here (Professor Kitis presentation starts at 2:10:15).

• 2014
  35th Annual Meeting for Greek Linguistics

  

  8-10 May 2014, Dept. of Linguistics, Aristotle University

  Title of presentation: ‘Street slogans as a specific anarchist genre’

  Program’s outline is available here

• 2011
  12th International Pragmatics Conference

  

  3-8 July, Manchester, U.K. (With E-D. Kitis)

  Title of presentation: ‘Gentrifying slogan genres in political discourse’

• 2010
  4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics

  

  15-17 November, Madrid

  Title of presentation: ‘A reconsideration of conventional implicature and its implication for speech act theory’.

  Corpus of Language and Nature [clan]

• 2008
  7th International HASE Conference: The Individual and the Mass

  

  30^th May to 1^st June 2008, (With E-D. Kitis),

  Title of presentation: ‘Street slogans: Towards a performative analysis of a marginalized discourse’.

  HASE Conference

• 2008
  Language, Communication & Cognition Language

  

  4-7 Aug, Brighton, (Cognitive Linguistics association of UK)  (With E-D. Kitis)

  Title of presentation: ‘Street slogans: An attempt at interpreting a marginalized discourse and culture’.

• 2007
  10th ICLC (International Cognitive Linguistics Conference)

  

  15-20 July, Krakow

  Title of presentation: ‘Emotions and discursivity’.

• 2007
  10th IPrA (International Pragmatics Conference)

  

  8-13 July, Gotheburgh, Sweden

  Title of presentation: ‘Emotions as discursive constructs’.

Country Research Team Leader

• 2012
  COST 2.2, 29 February - 5 March, Skopje
• 2011
  COST 2.2, 2-5 May, Lodz, Poland
• 2010
  COST 2.2, 6 September, Heidelberg
• 2010
  COST 2.2, 31 May-1 June 2010, Winterthur, Zurich

  ‘Genres in HE: The situation in Greece’, (with A-M Hatzitheodorou, M. Mattheoudaki, C. Kontoulis).