Villy Tsakona

About Villy Tsakona

Villy Tsakona, With an exceptional h-index of 23 and a recent h-index of 18 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializes in the field of Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Humor Research.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Liquid racism in Greek online satirical news

A migrant’s public apology as an instance of internalized racism

Exploring the ambivalence of liquid racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse

Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor: Evidence from adult L2 learners’ humorous narratives

The girl is on fire!”: Interactional humour in YouTube comments on the Notre Dame disaster

Book review: Ervine, Jonathan (2019). Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus, and Contradictions. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Online Satirical News as Instances of Liquid Racism: Evidence from Greek

Book review: Attardo, Salvatore (2023). Humor 2.0: How the Internet Changed Humor. Anthem Press.

Villy Tsakona Information

University

Position

Department of Early Childhood Education

Citations(all)

1948

Citations(since 2020)

1041

Cited By

1263

hIndex(all)

23

hIndex(since 2020)

18

i10Index(all)

44

i10Index(since 2020)

29

Email

University Profile Page

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

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Villy Tsakona Skills & Research Interests

Sociolinguistics

Discourse Analysis

Humor Research

Top articles of Villy Tsakona

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Liquid racism in Greek online satirical news

The European Journal of Humour Research

Villy Tsakona

2024/4/26

A migrant’s public apology as an instance of internalized racism

Exploring the Ambivalence of Liquid Racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse

Argiris Archakis

Villy Tsakona

2024/2/15

Exploring the ambivalence of liquid racism: In between antiracist and racist discourse

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Argiris Archakis

Villy Tsakona

2024

Deconstructing imagined identities and imagined communities through humor: Evidence from adult L2 learners’ humorous narratives

Pragmatics and Society

Spyridoula Gasteratou

Villy Tsakona

2023/7/6

The girl is on fire!”: Interactional humour in YouTube comments on the Notre Dame disaster

The pragmatics of humour in interactive contexts

Jan Chovanec

Villy Tsakona

2023/5/15

Book review: Ervine, Jonathan (2019). Humour in Contemporary France: Controversy, Consensus, and Contradictions. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.

Villy Tsakona

2023/3/28

Online Satirical News as Instances of Liquid Racism: Evidence from Greek

University of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series

Villy Tsakona

2023

Book review: Attardo, Salvatore (2023). Humor 2.0: How the Internet Changed Humor. Anthem Press.

Villy Tsakona

2023/12/31

The girl is on fire!

The Pragmatics of Humour in Interactive Contexts

Jan Chovanec

Villy Tsakona

2023

11 “Loanword translation and corrective acts are incongruous”: Debating metapragmatic stereotypes through humorous memes

Interactional Humor: Multimodal Design and Negotiation

Villy Tsakona

2023/12/4

Scrapbook for the 10th anniversary of the European Journal of Humour Research

The European Journal of Humour Research

Dorota Brzozowska

Wladyslaw Chlopicki

Villy Tsakona

Joao Pedro Rosa Ferreira

Anastasiya Fiadotava

...

2022

“It Is Necessary to Try Our Best to Learn the Language”: a Greek Case Study of Internalized Racism in Antiracist Discourse

Journal of International Migration and Integration

Argiris Archakis

Villy Tsakona

2022/3

Greek migrant jokes online: A diachronic-comparative study on racist humorous representations

Internet Pragmatics

Argiris Archakis

Villy Tsakona

2021/2/25

The humorous rewriting of Orwell’s' 1984': the Greek version

The European Journal of Humour Research

Villy Tsakona

2021/12/30

Commentary piece

The European Journal of Humour Research

Jennifer Marra

2018

“Did you hear the crunch sound?”: Humor and metapragmatic stereotypes in the Greek Master Chef contest

Journal of Pragmatics

Villy Tsakona

Vasia Tsami

2021/1/1

Book review: Rucynski, John. Jr. & Prichard, Caleb.(eds.).(2020). Bridging the Humour Barrier: Humour Competency Training in English Language Teaching. Lanham: Lexington Books

The European Journal of Humour Research

Villy Tsakona

2021/12/30

From the illegal migrant-criminal to the illegal migrant-invader: Critical analysis of the semantic change of the Greek term λαθρομετανάστης'illegal migrant'

Studies in Communication Sciences

Nikos Stamatinis

Argiris Archakis

Villy Tsakona

2021/12/9

Το χιούμορ και η διδακτική του αξιοποίηση στο πλαίσιο του κριτικού γραμματισμού: Ανίχνευση των στάσεων των εκπαιδευτικών

14ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο Ελληνικής Γλωσσολογίας

Βάσια Τσάμη

Ελένη Καπογιάννη

Βίλλυ Τσάκωνα

Αργύρης Αρχάκης

2021/10/11

Victor Raskin’s overlooked analysis of political jokes’

Script-based Semantics: Foundations and Applications. Essays in Honour of Victor Raskin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton

Villy Tsakona

2020/2/24

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Co-Authors

H-index: 26
Maria Sifianou

Maria Sifianou

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

H-index: 23
Jan Chovanec

Jan Chovanec

Masarykova univerzita

H-index: 18
Argiris Archakis

Argiris Archakis

University of Patras

H-index: 14
Kiki Nikiforidou

Kiki Nikiforidou

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

H-index: 14
Sofia Lampropoulou

Sofia Lampropoulou

University of Liverpool

H-index: 13
Władysław Chłopicki

Władysław Chłopicki

Uniwersytet Jagiellonski

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