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  1. How to ask (im)politely

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, February 2026, John Benjamins

    Dr Gijsbert Rutten, Dr Marina Terkourafi, Petra Sijpesteijn

  2. Frames for politeness

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), July 2022, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  3. Καλημέρα, kalimera or kalhmera?

    Article • Journal of Greek Linguistics, November 2021, Brill

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  4. Different scalar terms are affected by face differently

    Article • International Review of Pragmatics, February 2020, Brill

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  5. Coming to Grips With Variation in Sociocultural Interpretations: Methodological Considerations

    Article • Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, November 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  6. Uncivil Twitter

    Article • Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, July 2018, John Benjamins

    Ben Weissman, Lydia Catedral, Farzad Karimzad, Dr Marina Terkourafi

  7. Tracking opinion convergence online

    Article • Internet Pragmatics, May 2018, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  8. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Im/politeness

    Article • May 2015, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  9. First-order politeness in rapprochement and distancing cultures

    Article • Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA), March 2015, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  10. The importance of being indirect

    Article • Belgian Journal of Linguistics, November 2014, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  11. The Role of the Speaker’s Emotional State in Im/politeness Assessments

    Article • Journal of Language and Social Psychology, November 2014, SAGE Publications

    Dr Marina Terkourafi, Dr Nikos Vergis

  12. What, When and How? Spanish Native and Nonnative Uses of Politeness

    Article • Pragmática Sociocultural / Sociocultural Pragmatics, November 2014, De Gruyter

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  13. Disentangling Politeness Theory and the Strategic Speaker approach: Theoretical considerations and empirical predictions

    Article • Intercultural Pragmatics, January 2014, De Gruyter

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  14. Familiarity and disappointment: A culture-specific dimension of emotional experience in Greece?1

    Article • August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  15. Triangulating the GRID: A corpus-based cognitive linguistic analysis of five Greek emotion terms1

    Article • August 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Marina Terkourafi, Dr. Efthymia Kapnoula

  16. JonathanCulpeper (ed.). Historical Sociopragmatics (Benjamins Current Topics 31). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins. 2011. vii + 135 pp. Hb (9789027202505) €80.00/$120.00 / Eb (9789027286604) €80.00/$120.00.

    Article • Journal of Sociolinguistics, February 2013, Wiley

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  17. Re-Assessing the Speech Act Schema: Twenty-First Century Reflections

    Article • International Review of Pragmatics, January 2013, Brill

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  18. Chapter 10. Between pragmatics and sociolinguistics

    Article • January 2012, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  19. Why direct speech is not a natural default: Rejoinder to Steven Pinker's “Indirect Speech, Politeness, Deniability, and Relationship Negotiation”

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  20. The puzzle of indirect speech

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, September 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  21. The pragmatic variable: Toward a procedural interpretation

    Article • Language in Society, May 2011, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  22. From Politeness1 to Politeness2: Tracking norms of im/politeness across time and space

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, January 2011, De Gruyter

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  23. Thank you, Sorry and Please in Cypriot Greek: What happens to politeness markers when they are borrowed across languages?

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, January 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  24. Don’t go V-ing in Cypriot Greek

    Article • Constructions and Frames, December 2010, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  25. Introducing Greek Conversation Analysis

    Article • Journal of Greek Linguistics, November 2010, Brill

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  26. What-is-Said From Different Points of View

    Article • Language and Linguistics Compass, August 2010, Wiley

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  27. Conventionalized speech act formulae

    Article • January 2010, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  28. 8. A critical look at the desktop metaphor 30 years on

    Article • January 2010, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  29. 2: What Use Is ‘What Is Said’?

    Article • January 2009, De Gruyter

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  30. On the loss of the masculine genitive plural in Cypriot Greek

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  31. On de-limiting context

    Article • January 2009, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  32. Constructions of Intersubjectivity: Discourse, Syntax, and Cognition

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, August 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  33. Speaking of pain in Greek: Implications for the cognitive permeation of emotions

    Article • Cognition & Emotion, December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  34. Perceptions of difference in the Greek sphereThe case of Cyprus

    Article • Journal of Greek Linguistics, June 2007, Brill

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  35. Politeness

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, March 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  36. Understanding the present through the past

    Article • Diachronica, December 2005, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  37. Beyond the micro-level in politeness research

    Article • Journal of Politeness Research, July 2005, De Gruyter

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  38. Identity and semantic change

    Article • Journal of Historical Pragmatics, June 2005, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  39. An argument for a frame-based approach to politeness

    Article • January 2005, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  40. 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

  41. Testing Brown and Levinsons theory in a corpus of spontaneous conversational data from Cypriot Greek

    Article • International Journal of the Sociology of Language, January 2004, De Gruyter

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  42. Formulaic Language and the Lexicon

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, October 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  43. The Semantics/Pragmatics Interface from Different Points of View

    Article • Journal of Pragmatics, February 2003, Elsevier

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  44. Generalised and particularised implicatures of linguistic politeness

    Article • January 2003, John Benjamins

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  45. Politeness and formulaicity: Evidence from Cypriot Greek

    Article • Journal of Greek Linguistics, January 2002, Brill

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  46. Pragmatic correlates of frequency of use: The case for a notion of “minimal context”

    Article • De Gruyter

    Dr Marina Terkourafi

  47. Politeness and pragmatics

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Marina Terkourafi