Eliza Kitis holds an MA in Theoretical Linguistics, University of Essex, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy of Language-Linguistics, University of Warwick, (Recipient of DES, UK major scholarship). She is Professor of Linguistics at the School of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, where she introduced and has been teaching core courses in linguistics, such as Linguistics I, II, Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Subordinate Clauses in Modern Greek, Discourse Markers of Modern Greek, etc. Her 1982 University of Warwick Ph.D. thesis Problems connected with the notion of Implicature (accessible in pdf in homepage) was one of the first major critiques of Grice's Program of Logic and Conversation, proposing the maxim of Relevance as the dominant one, while relegating many instances of purportedly conversational implicature to a frame structure and contextual assumptions. The thesis draws on ethnomethodology (CA) and cognitive science in redefining Relevance and Implicature. Conventional implicature (mainly 'but' and 'therefore') was also discussed and criticized.
Her teaching and research reflect her special interests in semantics, pragmatics and discourse analysis as well as CDA. Her research has been published in various journals (Journal of Pragmatics, Pragmatics & Cognition, Word & Image, Sociolinguistica, Journal of Applied Linguistics, etc.) and as book chapters. She is also country research team leader of COST Action IS0703 (genres). She sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Linguistics (JAL), the International Journal of Language Studies (IJLS), and International Review of Pragmatics (IRP), while she is on the international board of reviewers for various journals and conferences, (e.g. Journal of Pragmatics, Erkenntniss, ICCLA, or for EU Programs), as well as in promotion review committees (internationally). She has spent quite a few semesters and academic years visiting şişli escort as a scholar various Universities, mainly in the UK (Leeds, Cambridge, London), and a year of graduate teaching in Ohio, Kent State University, while at present she divides her time between London and Thessaloniki.
