Publications

Papers

• Assimakopoulos, Stavros & Dimitris Serafis. 2025. Why soft hate speech matters: Argumentativity and the dispersion of hatred towards minorities. Critical Discourse Studies 1–20.

• Assimakopoulos, Stavros & Anna Piata. 2024.  ‘Liquid racism, metaphor and the visual modality’. In Argiris Archakis & Villy Tsakona (eds.) Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism, pp. 118-142. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

• Assimakopoulos, Stavros & Rebecca Vella Muskat. 2024. The negotiation of minority inclusion and exclusion in the participatory web. In Marco Venutti & Emanuela Campisi (eds.) Strategies of Inclusion and Exclusion in Online and Offline Interaction, pp. 133-155. Bern: Peter Lang. 

• Koenraad De Smedt, Iulianna van der Lek, Henk van den Heuvel, Antonio Balvet, Maarten Janssen, Silvie Cinková, Amelia Sanz, Stavros Assimakopoulos & Louis ten Bosch. 2024. CLARIN in training and education. In Krister Lindén, Thalassia Kontino & Jyrki Niemi (eds.) Selected Papers from the CLARIN Annual Conference 2023, pp. 34-49. Linköping: Linköping ECP .

• Serafis, Dimitris, & Stavros Assimakopoulos. 2023. Dismantling European Values: ‘Refugee crisis’ and discriminatory Attitudes in Greek online news portals. Southeastern Europe 46 (3): 297-325.

• Serafis, Dimitris, Franco Zappettini & Stavros Assimakopoulos. 2023. The Institutionalization of hatred politics in the Mediterranean: Studying corpora of online news portals during the European ‘refugee crisis’. Topoi 42: 651–670.

• Piata, Anna & Stavros Assimakopoulos. 2023. Μεταφορικές αναπαραστάσεις των προσφύγων/ισσών σε φιλοπροσφυγικές πολιτικές γελοιογραφίες [Metaphorical representations of refugees in pro-refugee political cartoons]. In Argiris Archakis, Rania Karahaliou & Villy Tsakona (eds.) Ιχνηλατώντας τη Διείσδυση του Ρατσισμού στον Αντιρατσιστικό Λόγο: Μελέτες για τον Ρευστό Ρατσισμό [Tracing the Infiltration of Racism in Antiracist Discourse: Studies on Liquid Racism], pp. 339-378. Athens: Pedio. 

• Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2022. Ostension and the communicative function of natural language. Journal of Pragmatics 191: 46-54. 

• Assimakopoulos, Stavros, Anna Piata & Louis de Saussure. 2022. Et et και comme expressions procédurales. In Rea Delveroudi, Sophie Vassilaki & Evangelia Vlachou (eds.) Approches linguistiques comparatives grec moderne-français, pp. 181-197. Athens: NKUA Press. 

• Serafis, Dimitris, E. Dimitris Kitis & Stavros Assimakopoulos. 2022. Sailing to Ithaka: The transmutation of Greek left-populism in discourses about the European Union.  Journal of Language and Politics 21 (2): 344-369. 

• Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2021. Interpretation, relevance and the ideological effects of discursive practice. Pragmatics & Cognition 28 (2): 394-415.

• Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2021. ‘Beyond meaningNN and ostension: Pragmatic inference in the wild’.  In Elly Ifantidou, Louis de Saussure & Tim Wharton (eds.) Beyond Meaning, pp. 11-28. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI [request pdf]

• Serafis, Dimitris, Carlo Raimondo, Stavros Assimakopoulos, Sara Greco & Andrea Rocci. 2021. ‘The argumentative potential of representations of migrants and refugees: Evidence from the Italian press during the refugee crisis’. Discourse & Communication 15 (5): 559-581. DOI [request pdf]

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

• 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.  [request pdf]

• 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. DOI [pdf]

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

• van der Lek, Iulianna, Tihana Kraš, Stavros Assimakopoulos & Jelena Gledić. 2023. Dissemination plan and materials for the UPSKILLS learning content. UPSKILLS Task Report.

• Arsić, Olga, Stavros Assimakopoulos, Silvia Bernardini, Adriano Ferraresi & Michela Vella. 2023. Enhancing learning with branching scenario simulations like TopLang: Guidelines to using H5P content blocks. UPSKILLS Task Report.

• Simonović, Marko,  Boban Arsenijević, Iulianna van der Lek, Stavros Assimakopoulos, Louis ten Bosch, Darja Fišer, Tihana Kraš, Paul Marty, Maja Miličević Petrović, Stefan Milosavljević, Marc Tanti, Lonneke van der Plas, Margherita Pallottino, Genoveva Puskas & Tanja Samadžić. 2023. Research-based teaching: Guidelines and best practices. UPSKILLS Task Report.

• van der Plas, Lonneke & Stavros Assimakopoulos. 2023. Integrating industry-based research projects into teaching: The UPSKILLS experience. UPSKILLS Task Report.

• van der Lek, Iulianna, Darja Fišer, Tanja Samardzić, Marko Simonović, Stavros Assimakopoulos, Silvia Bernardini, Maja Milicević Petrović & Genoveva Puskas. 2023. Integrating research infrastructures into teaching: Recommendations and best practices. UPSKILLS Task Report.

• Gledić, Jelena, Stavros Assimakopoulos, Iva Buchberger, Jelena Budimirović, Maja Đukanović, Tihana Kraš, Martina Podboj, Nađa Soldatić & Michela Vella. 2023. UPSKILLS guidelines for Learning Content Creation. UPSKILLS Training.

• Assimakopoulos Stavros, Michela Vella, Lonneke van der Plas, Maja Milicević Petrović, Tanja Samardžić, Iulianna van der Lek, Margherita Pallottino, Silvia Bernardini & Adriano Ferraresi. 2021. Graduate skills and employability: Focus interviews with selected job market stakeholders. UPSKILLS Task Report. 

• Gledić Jelena, Maja Miličević Petrović, Iulianna van der Lek, Silvia Bernardini, Maja Đukanović & Stavros Assimakopoulos. 2021. Survey of curricula: Linguistics and language-related degrees in Europe. UPSKILLS Task Report. Assimakopoulos, Stavros & Rebecca Vella Muskat. 2017. Xenophobic and homophobic attitudes: National report for Malta. Msida: University of Malta. [pdf]

Book reviews

• Assimakopoulos, Stavros. 2022. Review of Zufferey, Sandrine, Jacques Moeschler &  Anne Reboul - Implicatures (Cambridge University Press). Language 98 (3): 635-638. 

• 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]