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Georgios Coussios is a Researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Institute for Social Work and Social Policy, specializing in applied conversation research, interactional linguistics, and medical communication. His work focuses on knowledge transfer in oncology, patient-doctor interaction, and social categorization in discourse.
- Education: MA in Language, Culture, Translation (Mainz), MA in Applied Linguistics (Münster), BA in English Studies and Romance Studies (Bonn).
His research explores how linguistic structures and pragmatic strategies shape expert-lay communication, particularly in medical contexts. Recent projects include secondary analyses of social differences in qualitative interviews and optimizing patient understanding in oncology. His publications span monographs on cancer patient communication, contributions to linguistic handbooks, and analyses of ethnic categorization in migrant humor.
He has taught seminars on institutional communication and syntax of spoken language at Hamburg and Duisburg-Essen, and participated in international conferences. Coussios co-edits the online magazine fokus:interaktion, contributing to academic discourse on interactional studies.
