CHrysoula Laskaratou

Chrysoula Laskaratos is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Athens. She studied English Language and Literature at the University of Athens and Linguistics (MA and PhD) at the University of Reading, England. Her areas of expertise include Morphology, Syntax, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Typology, and Error Analysis. Her research interests focus on the analysis of issues in Greek and English grammar, the theoretical exploration of grammatical phenomena, and their application in teaching Greek as a foreign language to minority Muslim (primarily Turkish-speaking) students in majority schools. Additionally, she studies the linguistic expression of pain—and emotions in general—within both functional and cognitive approaches. Her valuable and pioneering long-term research on the linguistic depiction of pain in Greek was based on a specialized electronic corpus consisting of authentic dialogues between patients and therapists.