Selected Presentations

2022    Presentation “Teaching Cypriot Greek as a foreign language: materials & challenges”, Cyprus Acquisition Team Meetings, University of Cyprus, March 2022.

2021    Presentation,Folk perceptions of Cypriot Greek regional variation in the context of regional dialect levelling”, 5th Language Variation and Change – Australia (LVC-A 5) workshop, La Trobe University, Melbourne Victoria Australia, 6–9 December 2021 (online) (with Kleanthes K. Grohmann).

2021    Presentation, “New speakers of minority languages: The case of Sanna”, 5th Language Variation and Change – Australia (LVC-A 5) workshop. La Trobe University, Melbourne Victoria Australia, 6–9 December 2021 (online) (with Kleanthes K. Grohmann and Natalia Pavlou).

2021    Presentation, “Materials development for teaching Cypriot Greek as a foreign language”, CyTEA Annual Conference, 27–28 November 2021 (online) (with Vasiliki Erotokritou).

2021    Presentation, “The endangered language of Sanna: Attitudes, New Speakers and New Domains”, LITHME online conference, 20 October 2021 (online) (with Natalia Pavlou).

2021    Presentation, “The last divided capital city of Europe: investigating the ‘experiential’ dimensions of the linguistic landscape of Nicosia”, International Conference Multilingual Urban Space: Policy, Identity, Education. HSE University, Moscow, 12–14 April 2021 (online).

2021 Presentation, “Folk perceptions of linguistic variation: Small island, big differences?” Departmental Forum, Department of English Studies, 9 April 2021 (online).

2021    Presentation (in Greek), Ο ρόλος και η χρήση της αγγλικής γλώσσας στην Κύπρo, Кύπροs: Éνα пολύğлwσσο νիσí, Σύλλογος Διγλωσσίας Κύπρου & Γλωσσολογική Εταιρεία Κύπρου, 27 March 2021 (online).

2020    Presentation, «Είμαστε στην Κύπρο οφείλουμε να μιλούμε τη γλώσσα μας,          γιατί όι;» Γλωσσικές στάσεις γονέων και μαθητών απέναντι σε δύο συγγενείς ποικιλίες, Σύγχρονες προσεγγίσεις Έρευνας  στη Γλώσσα και τον Γραμματισμό. Τμήμα Επιστημών Αγωγής, Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου, December 2020, with Ioli Ayiomamitou

2019    Workshop, “Supporting students’ writing skills and views on immigration through argumentation in the classroom”, 3rd International Conference Literacy and Contemporary Society: Identities, Texts, Institutions. Cyprus Pedagogical Institute., October 2019.

2019    Presentation, “Quoting what was never said. Hypothetical quotations in Greek Cypriot informal conversations” 14th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL14), University of Patras, September 2019.

2019    Presentation, “Parents’ and students’ language attitudes towards two proximal varieties: the case of the bidialectal setting of Cyprus”, 14th International Conference     on Greek Linguistics (ICGL14), University of Patras, September 2019.

2018    Presentation, “I can’t be telling her ‘You know I’m bored now and I don’t            wanna see you…’ Constructed dialogue in Cypriot Greek conversations: Forms and    discursive functions,” 8th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and     Communication at the University of Cyprus, June 2018.

2017    Presentation, “Didn’t she say to you: ‘Oh my God! In Pafos?’– Form, patterns and discourse functions of constructed dialogue in conversations employing      codeswitching between Cypriot Greek and English,” 50th Meeting of the Societas    Linguistica Europaea at the University of Zurich, September 2017.

2017    Presentation, “«θέλεις huge sample για να φκάλεις valid statistical results»: a linguistic and conversational analysis of Cypriot Greek–English codeswitching,”       International Conference on Greek Linguistics (ICGL 13) at the University of    Westminster, September 2017.

2017    Presentation, “So what do we know about English discourse markers in Cypriot    Greek?” 2nd LC-UCY FORUM OF YOUNG RESEARCHERS at University of Cyprus, June 2017.

2016    Presentation, “Conversational strategies – using two linguistic varieties instead of one. Forms and functions of discourse-related codeswitching between Cypriot Greek and English,” 1st LC-UCY FORUM OF YOUNG RESEARCHERS at University of Cyprus, June 2016.

2013    Presentation, “English in the Greek Cypriot print media,” Responses to the lingua franca role of English conference at South-East European Research Centre, Thessaloniki, November 2013.

2013   Presentation, “English in the Greek Cypriot print media – a case study,”    46th Annual Meeting of BAAL (BAAL 2013) Heriot-Watt University, September         2013.

2011    Presentation, “Codeswitching: English and Cypriot Greek Patterns and      functions,” 2nd Westminster University Linguistics Conference, July 2011.

2011    Paper Presentation, “The use of English in Cypriot Greek as a form of codeswitching: Observed patterns of use and their functionality in naturally occurring conversations,” 3rd Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (LCTG3) at University of Greifswald, June–July 2011.

2011    Paper Presentation, “English – Cypriot Greek (CG) codeswitching: Patterns and functions,” 4th Bloomsbury Postgraduate Student Conference in Applied   Linguistics at Birkbeck, University of London, June 2011

2010    Paper Presentation, “Code-choice between English and Cypriot Greek bilingual compound verbs: Κάμνω erase (I do erase) instead of διαγράφω (I erase),” CamLing Conference at University of Cambridge, December 2010.

2010    Paper Presentation, “Are the Greek Verbs no Longer Enough? Bilingual Compound Verbs in Cypriot Greek,” LoT conference at University of Cyprus, May 2010.

2010    Poster Presentation, “Code Choice between Cypriot Greek and English,” 3rd        Bloomsbury Postgraduate Student Conference in Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck,         University of London, June 2010.

2009    Paper Presentation, “Language and ethnic nationalism in Cyprus,” SLX 14          conference of Sociolinguistics at University of Essex, June 2009.

2006    Poster Presentation, “Focus in Cypriot Greek,” InterPhases Conference at the      University of Cyprus, May 2006.

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