Dionysis Goutsos

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• Professor at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

The paper examines language change based on evidence from the Corpus of Greek Film Dialogue , an extensive corpus of dialogues from 105 Greek films, spanning nine decades (from 1938 to 2018, approx. 900,000 words in total). Keywords are identified for each decade of film dialogues with reference to the corpus as a whole, as well as with reference t...

The examination of connected speech may serve as a valuable tool for exploring speech output in both healthy speakers and individuals with language disorders. Numerous studies incorporate various fluency and silence measures into their analyses to investigate speech output patterns in different populations, along with the underlying cognitive proce...

Introduction Silent pauses are regarded as integral components of the temporal organization of speech. However, it has also been hypothesized that they serve as markers for internal cognitive processes, including word access, monitoring, planning, and memory functions. Although existing evidence across various pathological populations underscores t...

Research investigating pragmatic deficits in individuals with right hemisphere damage focuses on identifying the potential mechanisms responsible for the nature of these impairments. Nonetheless, the presumed shared cognitive mechanisms that could account for these deficits have not yet been established through data-based evidence from lesion studi...

Hateful and abusive speech presents a major challenge for all online social media platforms. Recent advances in Natural Language Processing and Natural Language Understanding allow for more accurate detection of hate speech in textual streams. This study presents a new multimodal approach to hate speech detection by combining Computer Vision and Na...

In this paper we examine the discourse on political corruption, with a focus on accusations of corruption and the self-defence discourse of the accused person. For this purpose, we study the discourse of the corruption scandal related with the Greek ex-Defence Minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos in 2011, as presented in articles published in the newspaper...

This paper presents and benchmarks a number of end-to-end Deep Learning based models for metaphor detection in Greek. We combine Convolutional Neural Networks and Recurrent Neural Networks with representation learning to bear on the metaphor detection problem for the Greek language. The models presented achieve exceptional accuracy scores, signific...

Linguistic aspects of narration have been investigated in healthy populations, in a wide variety of languages and speech genres with very different results. There is some evidence indicating that linguistic elements, such as speech rate (i.e., the measure indicating the amount of speech produced in a certain time period), mean length of utterance (...

One of the major challenges that NLP faces is metaphor detection, especially by automatic means, a task that becomes even more difficult for languages lacking in linguistic resources and tools. Our purpose is the automatic differentiation between literal and metaphorical meaning in authentic non-annotated phrases from the Corpus of Greek Texts by m...

The term idiolect refers to the unique and distinctive use of language of an individual and it is the theoretical foundation of Authorship Attribution. In this paper we are focusing on learning distributed representations (embeddings) of social media users that reflect their writing style. These representations can be considered as stylistic finger...

Greek diglossia has been mainly studied so far by focusing on linguistic attitudes rather than investigating actual use. This paper aims at studying evidence from a number of genres in the Diachronic Corpus of Greek of the 20th Century, including academic texts, public speeches, film scripts, newsreels, literature, song lyrics and private letters....

Pauses may be studied as an aspect of the temporal organization of speech, as well as an index of internal cognitive processes, such as word access, selection and retrieval, monitoring, articulatory planning, and memory. Several studies have demonstrated specific distributional patterns of pauses in typical speech. However, evidence from patients w...

This book offers new perspectives into the description of the form, meaning and function of Pragmatic Markers, Discourse Markers and Modal Particles in a number of different languages, along with new methods for identifying their ‘prototypical’ instances in situated language contexts, often based on cross-linguistic comparisons. The papers collecte...

Since its onset, the Greek crisis has given rise to an abundance of relevant text and talk. This volume offers an insider’s view of the discursive manifestations of the crisis, focusing on discourses in the Greek language and by Greek social actors. The contributions investigate the diverse ways in which the crisis has been communicated to the publ...

Since its onset, the Greek crisis has given rise to an abundance of relevant text and talk. This volume offers an insider’s view of the discursive manifestations of the crisis, focusing on discourses in the Greek language and by Greek social actors. The contributions investigate the diverse ways in which the crisis has been communicated to the publ...

Since its onset, the Greek crisis has given rise to an abundance of relevant text and talk. This volume offers an insider’s view of the discursive manifestations of the crisis, focusing on discourses in the Greek language and by Greek social actors. The contributions investigate the diverse ways in which the crisis has been communicated to the publ...

Large-scale protest movements have recently transformed urban common spaces into sites of resistance. The Arab Spring, the European Summer, the American Fall in 2011, the revolts in India and South Africa and, more recently, in Istanbul, in several cities in Brazil, and in Hong Kong, are part of a common wave of protests which reclaims squares and...

This study examines the frequency and meaning distinctions of gender-related nouns for man, woman, boy and girl in Greek in approx. 600,000 words of spontaneous interaction between, mainly, young women and men, drawn from the Corpus of Greek Texts (CGT). Data has been annotated for speaker gender and age so that speaker preferences can be closely s...

The paper studies the textual, discursive and social practices of the Greek “aganaktismeni” ( indignados ) movements, which mainly took place in the public gathering of tens of thousands of Greeks in Syntagma Square, outside the Greek parliament from May to August 2011. Data come from multiple sources, including the General Assembly proceedings and...

This paper reports on the construction of a reference corpus for Modern Greek, the Corpus of Greek Texts (CGT), that is currently being developed at the University of Athens. In particular, it points out the need for an authoritative corpus of Greek in view of the limitations of existing attempts to compile corpora for the language. It also present...

Studies of Greek word order have largely ignored explanations that refer to discourse. This paper illustrates an example of a textual approach to word order phenomena that relates the placement of adjuncts to local and global text-strategic motivations. Data are drawn from five different translations into Greek of an English text. Relevant suggesti...

Abstract The paper studies the genre of answering machine messages (AMMs) in English and Greek from a comparative linguistic perspective. The analysis of extensive data in both languages shows that the length of most AMMs is restricted (25 to 30 words) and related to the gender of the caller rather than the language used. It is also found that Gree...

This paper examines the role of the lexical pairs άνδρας/άντρας ‘man’ vs. γυναίκα ‘woman’ and αγόρι ‘boy’ vs. κορίτσι ‘girl’ in the construction of gender identity. We use corpus methodology to study the frequency, meanings and collocations of the noun pairs in five different genres of Greek, namely news and opinion articles from newspapers, and ge...

The paper studies the frequency, distribution and function of a number of adverbials in four sub-corpora of the Corpus of Greek Texts (CGT), namely television and radio interviews, parliamentary speeches, newspaper opinion articles and academic papers, with the aim of clarifying the overlapping categories to which these elements may belong. The fin...

It is rare that an author attempts to clear the ground around such a controversial "keyword" (in Raymond Williams' terms) as ideology—and, even moreso, in Greek. Spiros A. Moschonas undertakes this task with remarkable originality, grounding his discussion in an in-depth reading of an impressive range of works in a variety of disciplines, resulting...

On the basis of a corpus of e-chat IRC exchanges (approximately 10,000 words in total) between Greek- and English-speaking speakers, the paper establishes a typical generic structure for two-party IRC exchanges, by focusing on how participants are oriented towards an ideal schema of phases and acts, as well as on how their interpersonal concerns co...

The chapter zooms into the specific linguistic devices that are employed for the signalling of discourse organisation in narrative and non-narrative texts. Such devices include discourse markers, participant chains (which are formed by reference ties), time chains/shifts, and extensive lexical and sentence structure patterning. Lexical patterns inv...

While the two previous chapters focus on how units and relations contribute to text structure and what devices are employed in text organisation, this chapter moves to how structure is oriented towards certain functions. In narrative discourse, a central concern is the encoding of subjectivity. We discuss the main concepts that have been proposed f...

The chapter offers an introduction to the text-linguistic perspective on discourse that is followed in the book. The basic notions of text, context and discourse are clarified and the main assumptions of the field are identified. Text as a unit of analysis is discussed in detail, before looking into text language, structure and meaning. In particul...

The chapter discusses the various forms that communication through text takes in discourse, starting from the systematic groupings of discourse activities into speech events that differ across languages and cultures. One of the unifying principles that underlie this diversity is the use of mental patterns such as scripts and schemata, which help pa...

The chapter examines narrative and non-narrative units and relations. The identification of narrative units depends on the analysis of narrative structures as e.g. in story grammar models or in Labov’s model of narrative structure. In the latter, evaluation is discussed as a central structural component, realised through several devices. Narrative...

The chapter brings together the discussion of narrative and non-narrative discourse analysis as presented in the preceding chapters and discusses the interaction of narrative and non-narrative in a variety of contexts. The intermingling of the two modes is argued to serve a variety of more or less strategic purposes in a range of genres (e.g. argum...

The book’s concluding chapter looks forward to the picture emerging from the main strands of research in discourse analysis, as presented in the previous book chapters and suggests a number of areas which are thought of as being prominent in the field’s development. These are: the area of language and social interaction, in which conversation analy...

The book provides an accessible state-of-the-art discussion of current trends in the theory, method and tools for the language-focused analysis of text and discourse. The exposition is combined with close analyses of a wide range of texts, e.g. narrative and non-narrative, spoken and written, from a variety of communication contexts and discourse t...

The use of English in Cypriot Greek has been a highly contested issue, involving much speculation and prescription but, as yet, little analysis of actual data. This study is a preliminary exploration of the issue, focusing on extensive data from informal conversations between members of a Limassol family. The analysis suggests that instances of lan...

The article has a programmatic aim, namely to critically review the main assumptions of research on discourse boundaries and propose a viable way around current pitfalls. Discourse distinctions by mode can be a useful antidote to text classifications based upon genre, text-external or text-internal factors, or the spoken versus written dichotomy. W...

Le concept de genre - un des concepts fondamentaux des etudes discursives - renvoie a deux aspects du discours : 1) il permet d'apprehender le discours comme une action et s'oppose a la notion de style ; 2) il definit un ensemble de proprietes formelles, fonctionnelles et contextuelles du texte et constitue alors une alternative a la notion de type...

Greek bilingual dictionaries have long been marked by lack of naturalness and inadequate semantic and stylistic discrimination between the various equivalents suggested in translation. Although this is a general problem of bilingual dictionaries, which necessarily deal with decontextualized instances of language in the construction of the lemma, tr...

Most studies of discourse markers, including the classic Schiffrin (1987), fail to distinguish properly between considerations of local and global discourse organization. The present study argues for the introduction of a distinction between conjunctions and discourse markers, on the basis of each element's contribution to the local binding of disc...

The paper is a contribution towards a theory of sequentiality in expository text, aimed at developing a model for describing the linear segmentation of discourse. The model suggested employs two sequential strategies (shift and continuity) accomplished through a number of sequential techniques (framing, introduction, closure, continuation). The fun...

L'objet de cet article est double : dresser un etat de l'art concernant les corpus de grec moderne, et donner les raisons en faveur d'un developpement des corpus parles en grec moderne. Les As presentent une enquete effectuee sur les corpus existants, puis ils fournissent une evaluation et une identification des besoins actuels en matiere de corpus

This volume brings together 65 papers which were presented at this Conference, the aim of which was to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between scholars with expertise in various aspects of the Greek language. For this reason the volume contains the majority of the contributions. It should provide the linguistic community with a comprehens...

Tο άρθρο αυτό επικεντρώνεται σε τρία ζεύγη επιθέτων που συνδέονται με το φύλο (ανδρικός/αντρικός – γυναικείος, αρσενικός – θηλυκός, αγορίστικος – κοριτσίστικος) και διερευνά τη συχνότητα, τις σημασίες, τις συνάψεις και τη χρήση τους σε σώματα κειμένων (2,4 εκατομμύρια λέξεις συνολικά) που περιλαμβάνουν δεδομένα από εφημερίδες (ειδήσεις και άρθρα γν...