Bio: Irene Theodoropoulou is a Professor of Linguistics in the Department of English
Literature and Linguistics at Qatar University. Her current research interests lie at the
intersection of Modern Greek and Arabic sociolinguistics, intercultural communication
and discourse analysis with politics, architecture, and media studies. Her most recent
publications include journal articles in Metaphor and the Social World, the Journal of
Multilingual Discourses, Language Policy, Sociolinguistic Studies, and Lingua. She is
also the author of Sociolinguistics of Speech Style and Social Class in Contemporary
Athens (Benjamins, 2014) and the co-editor (with Johanna Tovar) of the Research
Companion to Language and Country Branding (Routledge, 2021).