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Courses:
 Language, Gender, and Sexuality (graduate program)
Continuities and discontinuities in ideas: Language and the History of Concepts (graduate program)
GL-300: Introduction to Linguistics (C)
GL-311: Sociolinguistics (E)
PA/S-034: Pragmatics (E)
Anthropological linguistics
GL-Elements of Pragmatics: Language in Use
PA/S: Language myths: Language and Nationalism - The Katharevousa/Demotiki Debate
Biography:
Costas Canakis is Associate Professor of Linguistics. After graduating with a BA in English from the University of Athens (1990, magna cum laude) he earned a PhD in Linguistics as a Fulbright & Century Scholar at the University of Chicago (with a thesis entitled “KAI: The Story of a Conjunction”, 1995). He subsequently taught at Princeton University (1995-1997) and the Universities of Athens (1998-2001) and Thessaloniki (2001-2002), before joining the University of the Aegean in 2000. His interests lie at the intersection of sociolinguistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, and anthrolinguistics, as evidenced by his monograph An Introduction to Pragmatics: Cognitive and Social Aspects of Language Use (in Greek, Eikostos Protos, 2007), while his current research focuses on two broad themes: Balkan linguistic landscapes and sexual citizenship and narratives of same-sex parenthood. Other book length publications include Subjectification: Various Paths to Subjectivity (co-edited with A. Athanasiadou & B. Cornillie, Mouton de Gruyter, 2006), Language and Sexuality: (Through and) beyond Gender (co-edited with V. Kantsa & K. Yannakopoulos, CSP, 2010), and Language and Sexuality: Linguistic and Anthropological Perspectives (in Greek, Eikostos Protos, 2011). He has lectured as an invited speaker at Universities and academic institutions at home and abroad (among which Harvard University, King's College, University of Hull, Universität Hamburg, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Università degli Studi di Palermo, Katholieke Universitet Leuven, Århus Universitet, Al-Farabi University (Almaty), National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, University of Thesally, Volos) and participated in numerous international conferences. He has published in Gender and Language, Constructions and Frames, Journal of Modern Greek Studies and served as a reviewer for journals such as The Journal of Pragmatics, Constructions and Frames, The European Journal of Humor Research, Glossologia, and Problems of Post-Communism.
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