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Personal profile
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Linguistics teaching modules concerned with an interdisciplinary view of language and society. I hold a PhD in Sociolinguistics from the Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication at Kings College London and have been a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Linguistics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. I have also lectured (part-time) for the MA Language in Society at Kingston University, London. My research interests lie at the intersection of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Analysis, with a particular focus on subcultures and their discourses, protest, conflict, urban space, political discourse, new communication technologies and the mass media. I have also been increasingly interested in Multilingualism, pidgins and creoles in Africa and beyond, World Englishes and Postcolonial Theory.
Research interests
Critical Discourse Studies
Corpus Linguistics
Multimodality
Linguistic Landscape studies
Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Linguistics, XJTLU - 2018 to present
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of the Witwatersrand - 2013 to 2017
Lecturer (part-time), Department of Languages and Linguistics, Kingston University - 2012
Teaching
Analyzing Text (UG)
Intercultural Communication (UG)
Semantics and Pragmatics (UG)
Language and Society (UG)
The Politics of Language in a Globalized World (PG)
Research Methods (PG)
Language and Literature (UG)
Linguistic Landscapes (UG)
Awards and honours
Honorary Lecturer, Department of English, University of Liverpool - 2018 to present
Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics, University of the Witwatersrand - 2017 to 2020
Visiting Fellow, Centre for Multilingualism and Diversities Research, University of the Western Cape - 2014
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, King's College London - 2013
MA, City, University of London - 2004
BA (Hons), University of East London - 2002
Person Types
- Staff
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Projects
- 1 Finished
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The discursive construction of Shanghai in English-language media
1/03/21 → 28/02/24
Project: Internal Research Project
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Pedagogical translanguaging in the primary-school English-L2 class: a case-study in the Chinese context
Jing, Y. & Kitis, E. D., 2023, In: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Metapragmatic awareness in EFL: Reporting speech-acts
Kitis, E. & Dimitris Kitis, E., Jul 2022, In: International Journal of Language Studies . 16, 3, p. 1-32 32 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2 Citations (Scopus) -
Sailing to Ithaka The transmutation of Greek left-populism in discourses about the European Union
Serafis, D., Kitis, E. D. & Assimakopoulos, S., 8 Mar 2022, In: Journal of Language and Politics. 21, 2, p. 344-369 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
10 Citations (Scopus) -
Legitimizing austerity in crisis-hit Greece: (Re-)articulating ‘social-democracy’ in political discourses of the socialist and left-populist parties
Kitis, E. D. & Serafis, D., 8 Jun 2020, In: Journal of Language and Politics. 19, 4, p. 691-711 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus) -
The Semiotics of Spatial Turbulence: Re/Deterritorializing Israel-Palestine at a South African University
Kitis, E. D., Milani, T. M. & Cerimaj, N., 2020, Reterritorializing Linguistic Landscapes: Questioning Boundaries and Opening Spaces. Bloomsbury AcademicResearch output: Chapter in Book or Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
5 Citations (Scopus)