Dr Eleni Kapogianni joined the University of Kent in 2013, after completing her PhD at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD thesis (funded by the Greek State Scholarship Foundation I.K.Y.) is a typological exploration of verbal irony, from the perspectives of pragmatics and philosophy of language.
Before joining Kent, Eleni taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Leeds in the areas of semantics, (experimental) pragmatics, discourse analysis, and language acquisition.
Eleni is a co-organiser of the interdisciplinary Research and Reading Group “Discourse, Power, and Society”
Eleni's main research lies in the areas of pragmatics, discourse analysis, and their various interfaces. She is particularly interested in nonliteral language in discourse, especially verbal irony, parody/satire, and humour. Additional interests (and areas of potential supervision) include Critical Discourse Studies, critical literacy, intercultural communication, metaphor, lying, deception (especially in the language of politics), conflict/aggression, and impoliteness.
Research Projects:
2021-2023 - When the joke misfires: Dealing with offensive humour in online interaction (BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grant) - Project website
2017-2019 - Humour and Critical Literacy (DVC Research and Innovation Fund, University of Kent) - Project wiki
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Eleni currently teaches sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language teaching, and intercultural communication.
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