Theodossia-Soula Pavlidou
After my undergraduate studies in the USA (major in Physics at Carleton College), I returned to Europe, where my “linguistic turn” took place, leading to a PhD degree from the Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik (University of Bonn, Germany) in 1977. Since then, linguistic communication has been at the heart of my research and teaching interests. My work lies at the intersection of pragmatics and sociolinguistics, and the thematic areas in which I have published include telephone talk, person reference, the metalinguistic and phatic dimensions of language use, language and gender, gender studies, politeness, pragmatic particles, question-answer sequences, etc.
Since 1980 I have been working at the A.U.Th., where I served inter alia as elected Chair of the School of Philology, Head of the Linguistics Department, and Director of the (Post)graduate Studies Program of the School of Philology. From 2005 on, I have been on the Board of Directors of the Institute of Modern Greek Studies [M. Triandafyllidis Foundation] at A.U.Th. I have also taught and given a great number of talks at universities and international conferences, and have been working as a visiting researcher at the Universities of Berkeley, Berlin, Bonn, Haifa, Lancaster, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Münster, Roskilde, etc.
A great part of my research activities revolves around the project Greek talk-in-interaction and Conversation Analysis that I am directing at the Institute of Modern Greek Studies. In this context, I have compiled the Corpus of Spoken Greek, whose transcribed component exceeds 2,3 million words at the moment, launched the book series Studies in Spoken Greek, and have initiated a biennial international symposium with focus on spoken Greek.
Besides numerous articles in linguistic journals and book chapters, my publications include the volumes Pragmatic Particles in Greek and Other Languages [in Greek], 2020, Making a Record of the Greek Language [in Greek], 2016, Constructing Collectivity: ‘We’ across Languages and Contexts, 2014.
