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With Khaled Sawaf. The infrastructure of writing and Arabic diacritics: From omission to restored flexibility and aesthetic control.
ChatGPT as sociolinguistic practice: Stylization, indexical orders, and decolonial reindexing
With Shaikha Al-Hemaidi. The sociolinguistic role of oral traditions in Arabic animation: A case study on Freej.
With Roaa Ahmed. One moral, many voices: Lexicon, sound, and speech acts in Qatari and Egyptian proverbs.
With Albandari Al-Nuaimi. Exploring the etymology of toponyms in Qatar.
Prompt engineering as pedagogy: The sociolinguistics of synthetic speech
With George Mikros & Fotis Fitsilis. The evolution of parliamentary discourse in post-transition Greece: A computational stylometric analysis of motion of no confidence debates.
2026
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Ghutratizing Qatar’s World Cup 2022™ as an act of branding resistance: A social semiotic approach. Semiotica. https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2023-0071
2025
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Reinstating Greece as a brand in investment discourse: The case of the Ellinikon Project. Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41254-025-00410-8 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Debunking the ideological hegemony of the left in Greek political discourse: A case study on Adonis Georgiadis. Journal of Political Ideologies, 1–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/13569317.2025.2510635 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene & Dhyiaa Borresly. Stancing solidarity: Twitter communication in Qatar during the blockade. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 12, 390. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04420-y pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene . Translanguaging the hero online: A case study on language ecology in praising Qatar’s Emir during the blockade. In: Siemund, Peter, Gardy Stein, Manuela Vida-Mannl (Eds.) Global English in its Local Multilingual Ecologies. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 335-363. https://benjamins.com/catalog/hsld.9.15the pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Articulating capillary power through undergraduate research: A case study on Capstone in Sociolinguistics as a multilingual TESOL course. In: Raza, Kashif, Özgehan Uştuk & Dudley Reynolds (Eds.) Multilingual TESOL: De-constructing and Re-constructing Power ‘of’, ‘in’ and ‘for’ Language Classrooms. Singapore: Springer, 289-302. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-9278-1_16 pdf
2024
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Good things come from small places: Communicating Qatar to World Cup tourists. Journal of Arabian Studies, 13:1, 151-175. https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2024.2372610 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene & Julieta Alos. Communicating Al-Andalus discourse interculturally in the semiotic landscape of Qatar. In: Abdul-Jabbar, Wisam Kh. (Ed.) Teaching In-terculturally in Qatar: Local Epistemologies, Ethics, and Pedagogies. London: Routledge, 114-131. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003561828-12/communicating-al-andalus-discourse-interculturally-semiotic-landscape-qatar-1-irene-theodoropoulou-julieta-al%C3%B3s?context=ubx pdf
2023
Theodoropoulou, Irene, Alzini, Mariam, Al-Thani, Fatima, Al-Sheroqi, Thajbah & Ilhem Souayah. Interacting comparatively: A study of metaphors and proverbs among the Qatari, Palestinian and Tunisian dialects. Metaphor and the Social World. https://doi.org/10.1075/msw.22024.the pdf
2022
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Κοινωνιογλωσσολογία και διαμεσολαβημένη επικοινωνία [Sociolinguistics and digitally mediated communication]. In: Goutsos, Dionysis and Spyridoula Bella (Eds.) Sociolinguistics. Athens: Gutenberg, 121-140 (in Greek) ISBN 9789600123401 pdf
2021
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Nostalgic diaspora or diasporic nostalgia? Discursive and identity constructions of Greeks in Qatar. Lingua. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2019.05.007 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Humoristic translanguaging in intercultural communication in Qatar: Merits, limi-tations and its potential contribution to policy development. In: Raza, Kashif, Christine Coombe & Dudley Reynolds (eds.) Policy Development in TESOL and Multilingualism: Past, Present and the Way Forward. Singapore: Springer, 161-175. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3603-5_13 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene & Johanna Tovar. The Routledge Companion to Language and Country Branding. London/New York: Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Research-Companion-to-Language-and-Country-Branding/Theodoropoulou-Tovar/p/book/9780367566654
Reviewed by Parmigiani, G. (2023a) in Language in Society, 52(3), 533-535. doi:10.1017/S0047404523000155 , Deschrijver, C. (2023b) in Sociolinguistic Studies, 16(4), 601–606. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.23159, and Cooper, G. F. (2022) in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 32(1), 245-247. https://doi.org/10.1111/jola.12300
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Social media branding: The case of Mykonos, Greece on Facebook. In: Theodoropoulou, Irene & Johanna Tovar (Eds.) Routledge Companion to Language and Country Branding. London/New York: Routledge, 313-331. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429325250-ch16/social-media-branding-irene-theodoropoulou?context=ubx&refId=904a533d-6635-4b08-8661-8b8463e411b5 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. “Deliver amazing!”: Qatar as a branded architectural discourse in World Cup 2022. In: Theodoropoulou, Irene & Johanna Tovar (Eds.) Routledge Companion to Language and Country Branding. London/New York: Routledge, 219-235. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429325250-ch11/deliver-amazing-irene-theodoropoulou?context=ubx&refId=132ae155-05bc-4761-9ad4-0ea8a85cbcb4 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene & Johanna Tovar. Introduction. In: Theodoropoulou, Irene & Johanna Tovar (Eds.) Routledge Companion to Language and Country Branding. London/New York: Routledge, 1-33. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429325250-int/introduction-irene-theodoropoulou-johanna-tovar?context=ubx&refId=e220eb13-a020-490a-9bd0-6d07c3053af0 pdf
2020
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Speech style as political capital: Barack Obama’s Athens speech. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 15(3): 325-339. https://doi.org/10.1080/17447143.2020.1800715 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Sociohistorical multilingualism and present-day language policies in Dubai. In: Leimgruber, Jakob & Peter Siemund (eds.) Multilingual Global Cities: Singa-pore, Hong Kong, and Dubai. London/New York: Routledge, 63-80. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429463860-5/socio-historical-multilingualism-language-policies-dubai-irene-theodoropoulou pdf
2019
Theodoropoulou, Irene & Julieta Alos. “Expect amazing!”: Branding Qatar as a sports tourism destination. Visual Communication, 19(1): 13-43. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470357218775005 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Semioscaping eutopia: Constructing Qatar as a place in Qatar Airways advertisements. In Stroud, Chris, Quentin Williams and Amiena Peck (eds.) Visceral Landscapes Special Issue. Sociolinguistic Studies, 13(1): 57-82. 10.1558/sols.36168 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Blue-collar workplace communicative practices: A case study on construction sites in Qatar. Thematic Issue: Managing People with Language: Language Policy, Planning and Practice in Multilingual Blue-Collar Workplaces, Gonçalves, Kellie (ed.) Language Policy 19: 363–387. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10993-019-09518-z pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Social status, language and society in the Arab world. In: Benmamoun, Abbas & Reem Bassiouney (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Arabic Linguistics. Oxon: Routledge, 371-386. ISBN 9781138783331. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315147062-21/social-status-language-society-arab-world-1-irene-theodoropoulou pdf
2018
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Social class fight as a Greek political discourse. Discourse & Society, 30(1): 85-102. https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926518801080 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Impact of undergraduate language and gender research: Challenges and re-flections in the context of Qatar. Gender Studies, 16(1): 71-86. 10.2478/genst-2018-0007 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene & Iglal Ahmed. Negotiating gender roles in intercultural communication in Qatar. Journal of Arabian Studies 8(1): 141-160. https://doi.org/10.1080/21534764.2018.1533697 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Η δομή και οι λειτουργίες των ερωτήσεων στον λόγο ενός Έλληνα πολιτικού [Structure and functions of questions in the speech of a male Greek politician]. In: Pavlidou, Theodosia-Soula (Ed.) Questions - Answers in Oral Communication. Thessaloniki: Institute of Modern Greek Studies, 148-163 (In Greek) ISBN978-960-231-185-1 pdf
2016
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Towards a sociolinguistics of popular literature: Northern Athenian suburbanites in Modern Greek chick lit. In: Stamou, A (ed.), Special Issue: Sociolinguistics of Fiction. Discourse, Context and Media, 23: 70-79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2017.05.007 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Mediatized embodied sociolinguistics: On the structure, entextualization and resemiotization of Varoufakiology. Discourse, Context and Media, 14: 28-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2016.08.003 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Translating the style of Aganaktismenoi on Facebook. Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 35(5): 561-582. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2014-1019 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene & Jana Masri. A Mini Guide on Nonverbal Communication with Arabs. Link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aSebzviStx3lZFEl5v1lQhxoNxzrcc5u/view?usp=sharing
2015
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Politeness on Facebook: The case of Modern Greek birthday wishes. In: Locher, Miriam A., Bolander, Brook, and Höhn, Nicole (eds.), Special issue: Relational Work in Facebook and Discussion Boards/Fora. Pragmatics, 25(1): 23-45. https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.25.1.02the pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Sociolinguistic anatomy of mobility: The case of Qatar. Language & Communication, 40: 52-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langcom.2014.12.010 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Diglossia. In: Wright, James (ed.) Elsevier International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Second Edition. Oxford: Elsevier, 417-423. ISBN 9780080970868 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Διεπιδραστική κοινωνιογλωσσολογία [Interactional sociolinguistics]. In: Georgralidou, Marianthi, Maria Sifianou & Villy Tsakona (eds.) Discourse Analysis: Theory and Applications. Athens: Nisos, 234-267. (In Greek) ISBN 9789609535854.
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Intercultural communicative styles in Qatar: Greek and Qataris. In: Raddawi, Rana (Ed.) Intercultural Communication with Arabs: Studies in Education, Profes-sional, and Societal Contexts. Singapore: Springer, 11-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-254-8_2 pdf
2014
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Sociolinguistics of Style and Social Class in Contemporary Athens. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. ISBN 9789027206480. pdf
Reviewed by Christopher G. Brown (2015) in the Journal of Greek Linguistics 15(2): 287-291 10.1163/15699846-01502007, Panayiotis Pappas (2015) in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies 33(2): 422-424 DOI: 10.1353/mgs.2015.0039, Penelope Gardner-Chloros (2017a) in Language in Society 46: 272-273 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0047404517000094, and Claire Ashmore (2017b) in Discourse & Society 28(5): 559-561 https://doi.org/10.1177/0957926517711001.
Theodoropoulou, Irene & Joseph Tyler. Perceptual dialectology of the Arab world. Al-Arabiyya, 47: 21-39. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24635371 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene & Yasser Mahgoub. Investigating traditional Qatari architecture from an interdisciplinary perspective. Humanities and Social Sciences Review, 3(4): 477-485. ISSN: 2165-6258 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Facebook talk: An interactional analysis of Aganaktismenoi Wall discussions. In: Christodoulidou Maria (Ed.) Greek Talk-in-Interaction. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 262-289. ISBN 978-1-4438-6168-7 URL http://www.cambridgescholars.com/analyzing-greek-talk-in-interaction
Theodoropoulou, Irene, Mahgoub, Yasser, Al Abaidli, Amal, Al Zoabi, Nahed, Al Thani, Moza, Hourani, Amal, Al Sada, Sara & Abeer Abou Nadi. An Illustrated Glossary of Traditional Qatari Architecture. Bilingual edition in English and Arabic. Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ba4gZtewEn0i1ibfWfomCapgurnr8Mxe/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=107464065933791999272&rtpof=true&sd=true
2013
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Sociolinguistic variation in Athenian Greek. Journal of Greek Linguistics, 13: 28-51. DOI: 10.1163/15699846-13130104 pdf
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Sociolinguistic profile of the Generation of 700 Euros. In: Frangaki, Georgia, Thanassis Georgakopoulos and Charalambos Themistocleous (Eds.) Current Trends in Greek Linguistics. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 177-196. ISBN 978-1443840255 URL https://www.amazon.com/Current-Trends-Linguistics-Georgia-Fragaki/dp/1443840254 pdf
2010
Theodoropoulou, Irene. A stylistic perspective on Athenian suburbia as a culture of conflicting social constructities. In: Baumbach, Sibylle (Ed.) Regions of Culture – Regions of Identity. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 175-194. URL https://www.wvttrier.de/en/p/regions-of-culture-regions-of-identity-kulturregionen-identitaetsregionen
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Authentication of the Athenian ‘new-rich’ and ‘new-poor’ suburbanite identities. In: Parpală, Emilia & Carmen Popescu (Eds.) Comunicare, Identitate, Cultură [Communication, Identity, Culture]. Craiova: Editura Universitaria, 219-232.
2008
Theodoropoulou, Irene. Football register formation: The case of Greece’s triumph in EURO 2004. In: Lavric, Eva & Gerhard Pisek & Andrew Skinner & Wolfgang Stadler (Eds.) The Linguistics of Football (Language in Performance, vol 38). Tübingen: Gunter Narr, 333-342. ISBN 9783823363989 pdf
2007
Theodoropoulou, Irene, Chang, Charles, Dugarova Esuna, Vilar Beltrán, Elina & Edward Wilford (Eds.) CamLing 2006: Proceedings of the Fourth University of Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Institute of Language Research. https://soas-repository.worktribe.com/output/362399
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