MGSA Survey of
University Faculty and Administrators
Dr. Christina Kakava
Associate
Professor
University
of Mary Washington
Department
of English, Linguistics, and Speech
I. Degrees
Ph.D.
1993 Georgetown University (Linguistics)
M.S.
1989 Georgetown University (Linguistics)
II. Areas of
Specialization
Sociolinguistics
Discourse
Analysis
Cross-Cultural
Communnication
III. Courses Taught
in Modern Greek Studies
No
course
IV. Principal
Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)
•Kakava,
Christina. Forthcoming. Review of Piller, Ingrid. 2002.
Bilingual couples talk: The
discursive construction of hybridity. Journal of Language in Society. (invited)
•Kakava, Christina.
In press. Bicultural identities in
conflict: The struggle of 'we' and 'they' from within. International
Humanities Journal.
•Kakava, Christina. 2004.
Review of Bayraktaroglu and Maria Sifianou
(2001). Linguistic Politeness Across Boundaries: The Case of Greek and Turkish.
John Benjamins Publishing Company. Journal
of Greek Linguistics, 4, 143-152. (invited)
•Kakava, Christina. 2004. Book Notice of
Bayraktaroglu and Maria Sifianou (2001). Linguistic Politeness Across
Boundaries: The Case of Greek and Turkish. John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Journal of Language.
•Kakava,
Christina. 2004. Review of Juliane House, Gabriele Kasper, and
Steven Ross (2003). Misunderstandings in social life: Discourse approaches to problematic talk. Journal of Sociolinguistics, vol.
8.1.150-154. (invited)
• Kakava Christina. 2002.
Opposition in Modern Greek discourse: Cultural and contextual
constraints. Journal of Pragmatics, 34,
1537-1568.
•Kakava Christina. 2001.
Language and conflict. Handbook of Discourse Analysis
(Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics), ed. by Deborah Schiffrin, Deborah Tannen,
and Heidi Hamilton, 650-670. Cambridge,
MA: Blackwell. (invited)
• Kakava Christina. 2000. Review
of Intercultural communication: A
discourse approach. by Scollon, Ron and Suzanne Wong Scollon. (Cambridge,
MA Blackwell, 1995), Language and Society
29:2.262-66. (invited)
•Kakava, Christina. 1998. Review
of Narrative performances: A study of Modern Greek storytelling by
Alexandra Georgakopoulou. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997). Synthesis: Review of Modern Greek Studies
2:2.4-6. (invited)
•Kakava, Christina. 1998. Review of Narrative
performances: A study of Modern Greek storytelling by Alexandra
Georgakopoulou. (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1997). Anthropological Linguistics 40:4.657-60. (invited)
•Kakava, Christina. 1997a. Sociolinguistic research in Modern
Greek: Past, current, and future
directions. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 126.4-43.
(invited)
•Kakava, Christina. 1997b.
Politeness and the particularities of requests (Review article). International Journal of the Sociology of
Language 126.244-66. (invited)
•Kakava, Christina. 1995.
Directness and indirectness in professor-student interactions: The intersection of contextual and cultural constraints.
Georgetown University Round Table 1995, 229-46. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
•Kakava, Christina. 1994a.
‘Do you want to get engaged, baby?’:
The cultural construction of gender in Greek conversation. Cultural
performances: Proceedings of the Third
Berkeley Women and Language Conference, ed. by Mary Bucholtz, A.C. Liang,
Laurel Sutton, and Caitlin Hines, 344-55.
Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Women and
Language Group.
•Kakava, Christina. 1994b.
‘If it was your sister...’: Personalization in arguments. Themes
in Greek Linguistics (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, Vol. 117), ed.
by Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Katerina Nicolaidis, and Maria Sifianou, 261-68.
Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
•Kakava, Christina. 1994c.
Conflicting argumentative strategies in the classroom. Georgetown University Round Table 1993, 395-414. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press.
•Kakava, Christina. 1993.
Aggravated corrections as disagreement in casual Greek conversations. Proceedings
of the First Annual Symposium about Language and Society–Austin (SALSA). Texas Linguistic Forum 33.187-95.
•Tannen, Deborah and Christina
Kakava. 1992. Power and solidarity in Modern Greek conversation: Disagreeing to
agree. Journal of Modern Greek Studies
10:1.11-34.
V. Office Address
University
of Mary Washington
Department
of English, Linguistics, and Speech
1301
College Avenue
Fredericksburg,
VA 22401
Office Telephone
(F)=Fax
540-654-1548
Electronic Address
ckakava[at]umw.edu
VI. Home Address
(no
information submitted)
Home Telephone
(F)=Fax
(no
information submitted)
VII. Comments and
Additional Information
(no
information submitted)
Last revised Feb.
11, 2005