Elements of Linguistics: Natural Semantic Metalanguage

Research Interests

The area of applied linguistics and ESP/EAP constitutes my main research interest. I apply a cognitive linguistics approach to the instruction of English as a Second/Foreign Language and I follow a task-based grammar methodology.

During my PhD studies I have attempted to build bridges among various ‘islands’ of the Cognitive Linguistics ‘archipelago’ such as Cognitive Grammar, Construction Grammar, CMT and Frame Semantics. I have investigated the evocation of the literal and the figurative meanings of the grammatical category of English phrasal verbs.

The area of Critical Discourse Analysis (advertising, media and political discourse) also draws my attention. In my post doctoral research I apply a Cognitive Linguistics approach to Internet marketing in order to investigate how multimodality serves as a meaning-making marketing strategy for multiple modes of communication.

List of Publications

ARTICLE IN EDITED VOLUME:
1. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2014. Do We Always Speak of What We Mean? (Non)Referring Expressions in Discourse. In Major Trends in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Volume 2 (pp. 153–166).
https://doi.org/10.2478/9788376560885.p110
Book DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/9788376560885 Online ISBN: 9788376560885

ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS:
2. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2016. The Study of English Phrasal Verbs in the Cognitive Linguistics Framework. TESOL Macedonia Thrace Northern Greece, e-bulletin, December 2016, issue 59: 30-32.

3. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2019. The Conceptualization of English Phrasal Verbs by Greek Primary School Learners: An Empirical Cognitive Approach. Languages, 4(3): 51; pp.:1-13. doi: https:// www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/4/3/51

4. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2019. The Conceptualization of English Phrasal Verbs by Foreign Leaners of English: An Experimental Study. Journal of Applied languages and Linguistics, 3(1), ALS House Publications. Athens, Greece, pp. 5-22. https://als-edu.wixsite.com/jall/tsaroucha

5. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2019. The Metonymicity of the Greek Deictic Adverbs εδώ [Here] and εκεί [There] in Politics. Philosophies, 4(3): 51; pp.:1-11. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies4030051 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Philosophies of Time, Media and Contemporaneity)

6. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2020. Embodiment and Image Schemas: Interpreting the Figurative Meanings of English Phrasal Verbs. Languages, 5(1), 6; pp.: 1-13. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/ languages5010006

7. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2020 (forthcoming). The Effect of Subliminal Stimuli in Advertisements. Journal of Advertising Research, pp. 1-14. (Paper submitted for publication, status: for PEER REVIEW).

8. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2020 (forthcoming). Figuration, Constructions and English Phrasal Verbs: The Instances of Come up. In ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), De Gruyter Open (accepted for publication, to appear within 2020).

9. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2020 (forthcoming). Interpreting Idiomatic Expressions Through Frames: the grammatical category of English phrasal verbs. In ELR (English Linguistics Research), 8(3): 1-9 (accepted for publication, to appear June 2020).

10. Tsaroucha, Efthymia & Triantari, Sotiria. 2020 (forthcoming). Advertising, Marketing and Persuasion: The case of subliminal stimuli. Philosophies, mdpi (invited article; to appear by the end of August 2020).

11. Tsaroucha. Efthymia & Karalis, Dimitrios & Kleisiari, Angeliki. 2020. An Interdisciplinary Approach to Medical Discourse: Analyzing Patients’ Speech. In International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation (IJLLT), 3(1): 142-145. http://www.ijllt.org/an-interdisciplinary-approach-to-medical-discourse-analyzing-patients-speech/

12. Karalis, Dimitrios & Tsaroucha, Efthymia et. al. 2020. An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Medical Discourse of Obesity: Analyzing Patients’ Speech. In International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation (IJLLT), 3(2): 1-7.
doi: https://doi.org/10.32996/ijllt.2020.3.2.1

13. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2020 (accepted; forthcoming June 2020). Conceptual Blending as a task- based learning strategy. In Journal of Applied languages and Linguistics, 5(1), ALS House Publications. Athens, Greece.

ARTICLES IN CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (PEER REVIEWED):

14. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2014. Conceptual Blending: The Case of Idiomatic Expressions. In the Selected Papers of the 7th Athens Postgraduate Conference, Volume I, edited by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 263-271.

15. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2014. The Jewish Community of Thessaloniki (1872-1912) in Discourse: A Linguistic Approach on the Grounds of Two Cognitive Processes. In the Selected Papers of the Interdisciplinary Symposium: Thessaloniki on the Eve of 1912, edited by the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki (Online platform of the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki), 191-204.

ESP BOOKS:
1. Tsaroucha, Efthymia & Karalis, Dimitrios. 2019. English Terminology for Health Sciences: Dietetics & Nutrition (Volume I); English for Specific Purposes. Logeion. ISBN: 978-960-9566-39-1.
2. Tsaroucha, Efthymia & Lazarides, Themistoklis. 2019. English Terminology for Accounting, Finance & Business (Volume I); English for Specific Purposes. Logeion. ISBN: 978-960-9566-44-5.

UNPUBLISHED PHD THESIS:
Tsaroucha, Efthymia. 2018. A cognitive linguistics approach to English Phrasal Verbs. PhD Thesis. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Greece. http://ikee.lib.auth.gr/record/299055/?ln=en

Papers presented in international conferences

1. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “Do We Always Speak of What We Mean? Evidence from Reference”. Paper presented in the 20th International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 2011.

2. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “How Metonymic Are Image Schemas? Evidence from English Phrasal Verbs”. Paper Presented in the Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2012 Conference, Wrocław, Poland, September 2012.

3. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “The Jewish Community of Thessaloniki (1872-1912) and the Newspapers of the 20th Century: A Linguistic Approach on the Grounds of Two Cognitive Processes”. Paper presented in the Interdisciplinary Symposium: Thessaloniki on the Eve of 1912, Thessaloniki, Greece, September 2012.

4. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “The Syntax-Semantics Interface of English Phrasal Verbs: A View from Cognitive Grammar”. Paper Presented in the Interfaces in English Linguistics Conference, Budapest, Hungary, October 2012.

5. Siskou, Marina & Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “Cognitive Stylistics of News Media: The Case of Political Scandals and Its Impact on European Community”. Paper presented in the 5th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Athens, Greece, November 2012.

6. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “Metonymy and English Phrasal Verbs; Its Motivation to Grammar”. Paper presented in the 21st International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 2013.

7. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “Conceptual Blending: The Case of Idiomatic Expressions”. Paper presented in the 7th Athens Postgraduate Conference, Athens, Greece, May 2013.

8. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “English Phrasal Verbs: A Case of Metonymy”. Paper presented in the 19th International Congress of Linguistics, Geneva, Switzerland, July 2013.

9. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “Englishisation in Greek Ads; The Rise of a Novel Metaphor”. Paper presented in the 1stInternational Figurative Thought and Language Symposium, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 2014.

10. Vogiatzis A., Christakidou A., Tsaroucha E., Athanasiadou A. “Metaphor, Emotions, and Political Speech”. Paper presented in the 1st International Figurative Thought and Language Symposium, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 2014.

11. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “Interpreting English Phrasal Verbs by Means of Conceptual Blending”. Paper presented in the Conceptual Blending: Language, Music, Multi-Modal Communication Teleconference, Thessaloniki, Greece, February 2015.

12. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “The Conceptualization of English Phrasal Verbs by Greek and German Learners of English”. Paper presented in the 22nd International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 2015.

13. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “The Conceptualization of English Phrasal Verbs by Greek Primary School Learners: A Cognitive Approach”. Paper presented in the 2nd Early Childhood Pedagogy Symposium: Transformative Pedagogy and Learning in the Early Years, Ioannina, Greece, May 2015.

14. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “English Phrasal Verbs as Blended Constructions: A Case Study”. Paper presented in the 8th Athens Postgraduate Conference, Athens, Greece, July 2015.

15. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “Conceptual Autonomy and Dependence on English Phrasal Verbs”. Paper presented in the Third International Symposium on Figurative Thought and Language. Osijek, Croatia, April 2017.16. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “The Conceptualization of English Phrasal Verbs by Foreign Learners of English: An Experimental Study”. Paper presented in the Language Education and Research Conference. Athens, Greece, September 2019.

17. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “Conceptual Blending as a Marketing Communication Strategy”. Paper to be presented in the 24th International Symposium of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2-4 October 2020 (accepted for presentation).

18. Tsaroucha, Efthymia & Mpisa, Aigli. “A Task-based Grammar Approach to the Instruction of Military Terminology; English for Specific Purposes”. Paper to be presented in the 1st International Conference on ESP, EAP & Applied Linguistics. Volos, Greece, 26-27 September 2020 (accepted for presentation).

19. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “A Task-based Grammar Approach to the Instruction of Financial Terminology; An experimental study”. Paper to be presented in the 1st International Conference on ESP, EAP & Applied Linguistics. Volos, Greece, 26-27 September 2020 (accepted for presentation).

20. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “Conceptual integration networks and the instruction of idioms to foreign learners of English”. Paper to be presented in the 2nd Language Education and Research Conference. Athens, Greece, 3-4 October 2020 (accepted for presentation).

21. Tsaroucha, Efthymia. “Person & Syllable Effect in Verb Processing; A lexical-decision task: Paper to be presented in the Language Disorders in Greek (LDG8) Conference. Volos, Greece, 30-31 May 2020 (accepted for presentation).

Elements of Linguistics

Monday, November 25, 2013

Natural Semantic Metalanguage_Introduction

Conference Call: 1st International Conference on ESP, EAP and Applied Linguistics