Publications

Papers

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros. In press. ‘Beyond meaningNN and ostension: Pragmatic inference in the wild’. In Elly Ifantidou, Louis de Saussure & Tim Wharton (eds.) Beyond Meaning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

  • Serafis, Dimitris, Carlo Raimondo, Stavros Assimakopoulos, Sara Greco & Andrea Rocci. In press. ‘The argumentative potential of representations of migrants and refugees: Evidence from the Italian press during the refugee crisis’. Discourse & Communication.

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2020. ‘Incitement to discriminatory hatred, illocution and perlocution’. Pragmatics and Society 11 (2): 177-195. [link]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros, Rebecca Vella Muskat, Lonneke van der Plas & Albert Gatt. 2020. ‘Annotating for Hate Speech: The MaNeCo corpus and some input from critical discourse analysis’. In Proceedings for the 12th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pp. 5088–5097. Marseille: European Language Resources Association. [pdf]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros & Dimitris Serafis. 2020. ‘Ρητορική και λόγος μίσους: Oμοφοβικές τάσεις σε σχόλια αναγνωστών στο διαδίκτυο [Hate rhetoric and hate speech: Homophobic tendencies in online news portal comments].’ In Salomi Boukala & Anastasia Stamou (eds.) Κριτική Ανάλυση Λόγου: (Απο)δομώντας την Ελληνική Πραγματικότητα [Critical Discourse Analysis: (De)constructing the Reality in Greece], pp. 589-621. Athens: Nisos.

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros & Fabienne H. Baider. 2019. Hate speech in online reactions to news articles in Cyprus and Greece. In Maria Chondrogianni, Simon Courtenage, Geoffrey Horrocks, Amalia Arvaniti & Ianthi Tsimpli (eds.) Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Greek Linguistics, pp. 398-406. London: University of Westminster. [pdf]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros & Rebecca Vella Muskat. 2018. Xenophobic and homophobic attitudes in online news portal comments in Malta (with Rebecca Vella Muskat). Xjenza Online 6 (1):25-40. [pdf]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2017. Relevance. In Anne Barron, Yueguo Gu & Gerard Steen (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Pragmatics, pp. 310-322. London/New York: Routledge. [ms]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2017. Context selection in relevance theory. In Joanna Blochowiak, Cristina Grisot, Stephanie Durrleman & Christopher Laenzlinger (eds.) Formal Models in the Study of Language, pp. 221-242. Cham: Springer. [ms]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros & Rebecca Vella Muskat. 2017. Exploring xenophobic and homophobic attitudes in Malta: linking the perception of social practice with textual analysis (with Rebecca Vella Muskat). Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 13 (2): 179-202. [pdf]

  • Cremona, Martina, Stavros Assimakopoulos & Alexandra Vella. 2017. The expression of politeness in a bilingual setting: Exploring the case of Maltese English (with). Russian Journal of Linguistics 21 (4): 767-788. [pdf]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2015. Motivating the procedural analysis of logical connectives. Nouveaux Cahiers de Linguistique Française 32: 59-70. [pdf]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2015. The insularity of scientific reasoning. In Ralf Heimrath & Arndt Kremer (eds.) Insularity: Small Worlds in Linguistic and Cultural Perspectives. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, pp. 223-239. [ms]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2014. The Background of politeness universals. Russian Journal of Linguistics 18 (4): 35-43. [pdf]

  • Tomlinson, John M. & Stavros Assimakopoulos. 2013. The dynamics of pragmatic enrichment during metaphor processing: activation vs. suppression. In Markus Knauff, Michael Pauen, Natalie Sebanz & Ipke Wachsmuth (eds.) Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin: Cognitive Science Society, pp. 145-150. [pdf]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2012. On encoded lexical meaning: philosophical and psychological perspectives. Humana:Mente Journal of Philosophical Studies 5 (23): 17-35. [pdf]

  • Frápolli, María José & Stavros Assimakopoulos. 2012. Redefining logical constants as inference markers (with). The Linguistic Review 29 (4): 625-642. [pdf]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2008. Intention, common ground and the availability of semantic content: a relevance-theoretic perspective. In Istvan Kecskes & Jacob L. Mey (eds.) Intention, Common Ground and the Egocentric Speaker-Hearer. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 105-126. [pdf]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2006. Cognitive representation and the relevance of on-line constructions. In Christian Ebert & Cornelia Endriss (eds.) Proceedings of the Sinn und Bedeutung 10 - ZAS Papers in Linguistics 44 (1): 1-13. [pdf]

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2004. Context selection and relevance. In Stavros Assimakopoulos (ed.) Online proceedings of the 2003 Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Postgraduate Conference. University of Edinburgh. [pdf]


Technical report

  • Assimakopoulos, Stavros & Rebecca Vella Muskat. 2017. Xenophobic and homophobic attitudes: National report for Malta. Msida: University of Malta. [pdf]


Book reviews

  • 2020. ‘Review of Moeschler, Jacques - Non-Lexical Pragmatics: Time, Causality and Logical Words (de Gruyter Mouton)’. Folia Linguistica 55 (1): 295-300. [link]

  • 2019. ‘Review of Mazzone, Marco - Cognitive Pragmatics: Mindreading, Inferences, Consciousness (de Gruyter Mouton)’. Journal of Pragmatics 143: 7-9. [link]

  • 2015. ‘Review of Bardzokas, Valandis - Causality and Connectives: From Grice to Relevance (John Benjamins)’. Intercultural Pragmatics 12: 277-282. [link]

  • 2015. ‘Review of Kecskes, Istvan - Intercultural Pragmatics (Oxford University Press)'. The Linguist List 26.530. [link]

  • 2014. Review of Clark, Billy - Relevance Theory (Cambridge University Press)'. The Linguist List 25.1502. [link]