Dr. Dimitra Filippou is a linguist specialising in pragmatics, sociolinguistics and sociopragmatics. She studied Greek Literature with a specialisation in Linguistics (Bachelor of Arts) at the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she later completed her Master of Arts in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. She recently completed her Master Science at the Athens University of Economics and Business, specialising in International Negotiations and focusing on Game Theory. Her doctoral thesis (PhD) was on ‘Linguistic Impoliteness and Identity Construction in Conflict and Hate Speech Interactions’ and is part of research in sociopragmatics, the intersection of the disciplines of pragmatics and sociolinguistics. She was awarded the title in December 2023. Her research interests lie in the above-mentioned disciplines, and she is particularly interested in analysing and approaching social phenomena with linguistic tools. In particular, she studies issues of linguistic politeness and impoliteness, conflict, identity construction and hate speech, and has published and presented papers at international conferences. Since March 2024, she has been teaching the undergraduate courses ‘Discourse Analysis’ (8th semester) and ‘Sociolinguistics’ (6th semester) at the Department of Philology of the University of Patras.

Publications

• Filippou, D. (in press). Hate speech in social media and people’s interactions: a case study of hate speech directed at the victim of a fatal attack in Hate speech at the crossroads of aggression, anxiety, and resonance: from linguistics to politics and beyond. University of Navarra.
• Filippou, D. & Bella, S. (in press). ‘You don’t hear Greek’ and ‘Clean up Greece’: linguistic manifestations of racist discourse and hate speech against minority groups. Aegean Working Papers in Ethnographic Linguistics, 4.
• Filippou, D. & Bella, S. (2024). Online hate speech: a study of YouTube comments on a criminal case of rape and homicide. Glossologia, 31.
• Filippou, D. (2023). Linguistic Impoliteness and Identity Construction in Conflict Interactions and Hate Speech Interactions. Athens: National & Kapodistrian University of Athens.
• Filippou, (2018). Conversation Analysis: the case of a TV interview. Proceedings of the 9th Conference of Postgraduate Students & PhD Candidates of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 4-7 October 2017, 124 – 141.

Contact: dimfil@phil.uoa.gr