Marianna Patrona

List of John Benjamins publications in which Marianna Patrona is involved.

Titles

Crisis and the Media: Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres

Edited by Marianna Patrona

How is ‘crisis’, one of the most resonating words in the modern world, related to the mass media? Is crisis independent of the discourse practices of media text and talk? This book is a collection of studies that brings together current research into the ways in which crisis is constructed and… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 76] 2018. viii, 270 pp.

Talking Politics in Broadcast Media: Cross-cultural perspectives on political interviewing, journalism and accountability

Edited by Mats Ekström and Marianna Patrona

This book is a collection of studies on political interaction in a variety of broadcast, namely news and current affairs programs, political interviews, audience participation programs and radio phone-ins. Following a growing scholarly interest in political discourses, dialogic forms of news… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 42] 2011. ix, 248 pp.

Articles (6) | Order by:

Patrona, Marianna 2020 “You are not normal, you are against nature”: Mediated representations of far-right talk on same-sex child fostering in Greek parliamentary discourse The Mediated Communication of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Politics, Smith, Angela and Michael Higgins (eds.), pp. 160–179 | Article

This paper examines the media representations of scandalous parliamentary talk on same-sex child fostering in the discourses of representatives of the radical-right Golden Dawn party in Greece, but also by an MP of the conservative ANEL party of the SYRIZA-ANEL joint government at the time.… read more

Patrona, Marianna 2018 Crisis or the media? Some preliminary reflections Crisis and the Media: Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres, Patrona, Marianna (ed.), pp. 1–14 | Chapter

This is the introduction to the edited volume which clarifies the main conceptual and analytical framework adopted in the book. In this approach, ‘crisis’ is viewed as a form of mediated social practice and is placed within the framework of a broader ‘politics of crisis’ brought to life in and by… read more

Patrona, Marianna 2018 Chapter 4. ‘We – will – go – bank – rupt’: Interactionally constructing the Greek debt crisis on the news Crisis and the Media: Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres, Patrona, Marianna (ed.), pp. 85–106 | Chapter

This paper examines the discourse and interactional practices used by news journalists in the prime-time news of two major Greek national channels (one private and one public) during the political crisis that erupted between October 31st and November 11th 2011; namely, when the former prime… read more

Ekström, Mats and Marianna Patrona 2011 Talking politics in broadcast media: An introduction Talking Politics in Broadcast Media: Cross-cultural perspectives on political interviewing, journalism and accountability, Ekström, Mats and Marianna Patrona (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article

Patrona, Marianna 2011 Chapter 8. Neutralism revisited: When journalists set new rules in political news discourse Talking Politics in Broadcast Media: Cross-cultural perspectives on political interviewing, journalism and accountability, Ekström, Mats and Marianna Patrona (eds.), pp. 157–176 | Chapter

Georgakopoulou, Alexandra and Marianna Patrona 2000 Disagreements in television discussions: How small can small screen arguments be? Pragmatics 10:3, pp. 323–338 | Article

Based on a case study, this paper explores the interaction between the act of disagreeing and the contextual parameters of Greek television panel discussions. The analysis of the data reveals that, in contrast to previous literature on disagreements in TV interview situations, the disagreements at… read more