Invited Speaker

Eliza Kitis’ current/recent invited talks, seminars, and conference participation:

  • 2014
    Thessaloniki, Greece
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    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).

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

    Title of plenary lecture: ‘Constructional conjunction’

  • 2008
    Bulgaria, Sozopol
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    6-16 September, Southeast European Centre for Semiotic Studies at New Bulgaria University

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

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

  • 2007
    Brazil, São Paulo
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    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
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    24 August, 2006, Workshop on the Interface between Lexical and Discourse Semantics

    Title of plenary lecture: ‘Connectives as constructions’

  • 2006
    Sweden, Växjö University
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    5 December 2006

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

    Graduate Seminar in Pragmatics, Title: ‘Identifying Implicature’

Participation in conferences recently/currently:

  • 2014
    International Workshop
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    30th May to 1st 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
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    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)
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    15-20 July, Krakow

    Title of presentation: ‘Emotions and discursivity’.

  • 2007
    10th IPrA (International Pragmatics Conference)
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    8-13 July, Gotheburgh, Sweden

    Title of presentation: ‘Emotions as discursive constructs’.

Country Research Team Leader

Eliza is also country research team leader of COST Action IS0703 (genres).

  • 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).