Storytelling in offline and online contexts: Affective stances and identities

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Dr. Angeliki Alvanoudi
Wednesday 13/3/2024, 18:00-20:00

This workshop explores the structural and social aspects of storytelling in spoken and written discourse. In the first part of the workshop, we examine the interactional accomplishment of storytelling in face-to-face encounters and the embeddedness of storytelling within social actions. In the second part, we turn our attention to social media narratives and the different affordances and limitations that new media environments offer to users who document the stories of their daily experience. We analyze data from English and Greek, and we show that offline and online storytelling is linked to the expression of affective stances, which are a key resource for constructing and negotiating social identities.

When: Wednesday 13/3/2024
What time: 18:00-20:00
Language: Greek
This is an online event (Zoom link TBA)

Registration is now closed. Thank you all for your interest.

Participants will receive a Certificate of Attendance

Dr Angeliki Alvanoudi is a sociolinguist specializing in language and gender, language in interaction and language contact. She has taught courses in sociolinguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and she currently works as Research Associate at the Institute of Modern Greek Studies (M. Triantafyllidis Foundation) and Postgraduate Tutor at the Hellenic Open University. She has written the books Grammatical gender in interaction: Cultural and cognitive aspects (Brill, 2015) and Modern Greek in diaspora: An Australian perspective (Palgrave Pivot, 2019). She has published articles in various journals including Gender and Language, the Journal of Greek Linguistics, Text & Talk, Pragmatics, the Journal of Pragmatics, the Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Oceanic Linguistics, and Languages.