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"Buenos dias", "buenas noches" -- this was the first words in a foreign language I heard in my life, as a three-year old boy growing up in developing post-war Western Germany, where the first gastarbeiters had arrived from Spain. Fascinated by the strange sounds, I tried to get to know some more languages, the only opportunity being TV courses of English and French -- there was no foreign language education for pre-teen school children in Germany yet in those days. Read more

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Name:	Marina  Terkourafi
Institution:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Homepage:	http://faculty.las.illinois.edu/mt217/
State and/or Country:	IL USA
Linguistic Field(s):	Discourse Analysis General Linguistics Historical Linguistics Pragmatics Semantics Sociolinguistics Anthropological Linguistics
Specialty:	Sociopragmatics, history of the Cypriot dialect
Subject Language(s):	Greek, Modern
Selected Publications:	(2005a) ‘Understanding the present through the past: processes of koineisation on Cyprus’. Diachronica 22:2, 309-372. (2005b) ‘Beyond the micro-level in politeness research’. Journal of Politeness Research 1:2, 237-262. (2005c) ‘Identity and semantic change: aspects of T/V usage in Cyprus’. Journal of Historical Pragmatics 6:2, 283-306. (2005d, editor) An English-Greek Dictionary of False Friends / Αγγλοελληνικό Λεξικό Ψευδόφιλων Μονάδων. Athens: Athens University Press. xxiii+346pp. (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. (2002) ‘Politeness and formulaicity: evidence from Cypriot Greek’. Journal of Greek Linguistics 3, 179-201. (1999) ‘Frames for politeness: A case study’. Pragmatics 9:1, 97-117.
Announced on LINGUIST :	The Languages of Global Hip Hop
Courses Taught:	Introduction to Linguistic Theory, Language History and Use, Semantics and Pragmatics, Cognitive Linguistics, Translation and Lexicography, Sociolinguistics II, Introduction to Formulaic Language
Dissertation Abstract:	Politeness in Cypriot Greek: A frame-based approach
Dissertation Director * of:	Crossing the Lexicon: Anglicisms in the German Hip Hop Community (Matthew Garley, Author)
Dissertation Director * of:	Corpus Study of Tense, Aspect, and Modality in Diglossic Speech in Cairene Arabic (Ola Moshref, Author)
Academic Paper Abstract:	The pragmatic variable: Toward a procedural interpretation
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