ANGELIKI TZANNE

Angeliki Tzanne is Professor of Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She obtained her BA from the University of Athens and pursued postgraduate studies (Μ.Α and Ph.D.) at Lancaster University, England, where she conducted research in the areas of Pragmatics and Stylistics. She has also conducted post-doctoral research in Media Discourse with a scholarship from the Institute of State Scholarships, Greece. Her recent research interests include theories of Politeness and Impoliteness, and Digital Communication with particular emphasis on the discourse of food blogs.

Since 1999, she has been a member of staff of the Faculty of English Language and Literature, NKUA, where she has taught various linguistics courses at both undergraduate (Academic Discourse, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis among others) and postgraduate level (Research Methods in Linguistics). 

She has authored two books (Talking at Cross-Purposes, 2000. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, and Relational Work in Digital Communication: The Case of Greek Food Blogs, 2022. Pedio: Athens) and a number of articles which have appeared in international journals such as Intercultural Pragmatics, Narrative Inquiry και Pragmatics. She has also published chapters in several edited volumes such as From Speech Acts to Lay Understandings of Politeness, 2019 (edited by Ogiermann, E. & Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, P.) and The Cambridge Handbook of Sociopragmatics, 2021 (edited by Haugh, M., D. Z. Kádár & Terkourafi, M.), both volumes published by Cambridge University Press.

Additionally, Angeliki Tzanne has edited a special issue for the Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (2021, Special Issue for Young Researchers), which contains articles by young scholars on Politeness and Impoliteness. She has also edited a volume on conducting research in Linguistics, and a multilingual dictionary in the field of Consevation of Art and Antiquities. 

Angeliki Tzanne has reviewed manuscripts for international journals such as the Journal of Pragmatics and Pragmatics. Since 2021, she has been Associate Editor for Pragmatics.