INVITED TALK: Καθηγήτρια κα Μαρία Ευθυμίου
Ο Θεόδωρος Κολοκοτρώνης υπήρξε εμβληματική φυσιογνωμία του Αγώνα του '21 και καίριος πρωταγωνιστής της σύγκρουσης 'πολιτικών'/'στρατιωτικών' που οδήγησε σε Εμφύλιο Πόλεμο φέρνοντας την Επανάσταση στο χείλος της καταστροφής. Μετά τη νίκη του στα Δερβενάκια, τον Ιούλιο του 1822, το κύρος του βρέθηκε στα ύψη αγιοποιούμενος μεταξύ των απλών ανθρώπων...
Georgia Psychogyiou and Marianna Tritou This study focuses on instances of betrayal in Kolokotronis’ Memoirs. The analysis uses trust theory to examine trust violation οn subjugated Greek territory. McKnight and Chervany (2000) combined trust-related characteristics and created four second-order conceptual categories, which correspond to the elements of competence, predictability,...
Lemonia Tsavdaridou and Petroula Tsoli National identity is strongly related to its immediate context (Hertzfeld, 2005) and may eloquently be inscribed in discourse (Benwell and Stokoe 2006). The study examines cultural values in Kolokotronis’ Memoirs which shaped the Greek identity in the time of the 1821 revolutionary movement. The study uses Schwartz’s categorisation of human values model...
Konstantinos Daskalakis and Chara Vlachaki Societal features are often inscribed in discourse, thus making discourses rich resources for advancing understanding of societal features. The study examines Kolokotronis’ Memoirs to retrieve manifestations of societal features. It (a) traces a collectivistic spirit prevalent in the subjugated Greek society at the time of the 1821 Greek revolution...
Eleni Sitou and Ioanna Asanakidi The study investigates perception of death and dying in the context of the 1821 Greek revolution, as manifested in Kolokotronis’ Memoirs. As metaphor is key to unlocking cognitive aspects of language use, the study analyses literal and metaphorical death and dying expressions in the data, in the framework of the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson,...
Efi Pouliasi and Marianna Papageorgopoulou The present study first draws on Sharmad Hashan (2019) who discusses leadership qualities that make a good leader and identifies them in Kolokotronis’ behavior as manifested in the Memoirs. The qualities of a good leader assume a politeness framework which establishes good rapport with interlocutors. The study then turns to impoliteness and uses...
Georgia Valasidou and Aristea-Maria Metaxa How power relations between interlocutors are shaped and practiced has been of interest to pragmaticists. Although extensive research has been done on power relations in the workplace (Fairhurst, 2007; Holmes & Stubbe, 2015), there is no corresponding analysis of power relations at times of turbulent historical periods. The study draws on...
Aikaterini-Sofia Panoutsou and Fioralbo Permeti This research focuses on the linguistic expressions which shape the conceptualization of war, battle and the rebel figure in the Memoirs. Drawing on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson, 1980) and Engstrøm’s approach to metaphor theory (1999), it takes a qualitative approach to the text focusing on different ways in which war,...
Spatiο-temporal landscapes in subjugated Greece, Despoina Dimaki and Athanasia Katsa This paper examines perception of the spatial and temporal landscape as described in Kolokotronis’ Memoirs, offering the specifics of a spatio-temporal background at the time of the Greek War of Independence. It explores specific references to space and time in the narration, viewed in the light of Bakhtin’s...
