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)

 

Publications

 

•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

 

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