Dr Anastasia G. Stamou holds an MA in Language in Society from the University of East Anglia, UK, and a PhD from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics and Language Teaching, School of German, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her area of expertise is critical discourse analysis and the sociolinguistics of popular culture, being particularly interested in delineating the role of language in the representation of social reality in public discourse (media, popular culture, education), in issues of language and ideology, in the discursive construction of (youth, gender and immigrant) identities, and in educational applications of critical discourse analysis (critical literacy theories). Her research interests have been informed from the fact that contemporary social life is ‘textually-mediated’, since we live our practices and identities to a large extent through texts circulating in the public sphere, such as media, political and popular culture discourse. She has published numerous articles in international peer-reviewed journals such as Discourse & Society, Critical Discourse Studies, Language & Communication, Language Awareness and Social Semiotics. She has just completed the editing of a special issue on the sociolinguistics of fiction, to appear (May 2018) in Discourse, Context & Media. Up to now (March 2018), Google Scholar has recorded 534 citations for her published work.
 
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