All Stories

  1. Well-wishing practices in Greek and English food blogs

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, January 2026, De Gruyter

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  2. Chapter 7. Influencers’ conflictual responses to posters’ offensive comments on Instagram

    Article • October 2024, John Benjamins

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  3. On Understandings of Politeness in Greek, Again!

    Article • Roczniki Humanistyczne, July 2023, Towarzystwo Naukowe KUL

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  4. Dangerous politeness? Understandings of politeness in the COVID-19 era and beyond

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, April 2023, De Gruyter

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  5. Im/politeness and in/civility: A neglected relationship?

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, July 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  6. Im/politeness and discursive pragmatics

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, May 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  7. Technology Mediated Service Encounters

    Article • January 2019, John Benjamins

    Lucía Fernández-Amaya, Professor Maria Sifianou, María de la O Hernández-López

  8. Vocatives in service encounters: evidence from Greek

    Article • Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, January 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Villy Tsakona, Professor Maria Sifianou

  9. Relational work in multimodal networked interactions on Facebook

    Article • Internet Pragmatics, May 2018, John Benjamins

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  10. Conceptualizing politeness in Japanese and Greek

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, December 2017, De Gruyter

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  11. (Im)politeness and Cultural Variation

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  12. (Im)politeness and Identity

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  13. Gender ideology and social identity processes in online language aggression against women

    Article • Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, October 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  14. Despierten, Latinos(‘Wake up, Latinos’)

    Article • Journal of Language and Politics, December 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  15. Farewell and welcome aboard

    Article • Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, November 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  16. The impact of globalisation on politeness and impoliteness

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  17. Review of Lacorte (2007): Lingüística aplicada del español

    Article • Spanish in Context, December 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  18. Disagreements, face and politeness

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  19. The iron fist in a velvet glove: How politeness can contribute to impoliteness

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, June 2012, De Gruyter

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  20. “Face,” Stereotyping, and Claims of Power: The Greeks and Turks in Interaction

    Article • March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  21. Book review

    Article • Language in Society, February 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  22. Conceptualizations of politeness and impoliteness in Greek

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  23. The announcements in the Athens Metro stations: An example of glocalization?

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  24. Politeness (review)

    Article • Language, January 2006, Project Muse

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  25. ARIN BAYRAKTAROGLU and MARIA SIFIANOU (eds.), Linguistic politeness across boundaries: The case of Greek and Turkish. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series, 88. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001. Pp. xiv, 439. Hb $125.

    Article • Language in Society, April 2004, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Marina Terkourafi, Professor Maria Sifianou

  26. Conversational dynamics of humour: the telephone game in Greek

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, May 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  27. Language variation in Greece

    Article • January 2003, John Benjamins

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  28. On the telephone again! Telephone conversation openings in Greek

    Article • January 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  29. Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries

    Article • October 2001, John Benjamins

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  30. Introduction

    Article • January 2001, John Benjamins

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  31. “Oh!How appropriate!” Compliments and politeness

    Article • January 2001, John Benjamins

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  32. Themes in Greek Linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993

    Article • Language, June 1998, JSTOR

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  33. Themes in Greek linguistics: Papers from the First International Conference on Greek Linguistics, Reading, September 1993 Ed. by Irene Philippaki- Warburton, Katerina Nicolaidis, and Maria Sifianou

    Article • Language, January 1998, Project Muse

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  34. Politeness and off-record indirectness

    Article • International Journal of the Sociology of Language, January 1997, De Gruyter

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  35. Do we need to be silent to be extremely polite? Silence and FTAs

    Article • International Journal of Applied Linguistics, June 1995, Wiley

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  36. Themes in Greek Linguistics

    Article • November 1994, John Benjamins

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  37. Off-record indirectness and the notion of imposition

    Article • Multilingua, January 1993, De Gruyter

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  38. The use of diminutives in expressing politeness: Modern Greek versus English

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, February 1992, Elsevier

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  39. On the telephone again! Differences in telephone behaviour: England versus Greece

    Article • Language in Society, December 1989, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Maria Sifianou

  40. Off-record indirectness and the notion of imposition

    Article • Wiley

    Professor Maria Sifianou