Villy Tsakona | Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Rather than a one-to-one correspondence between varieties and contexts, hybridity is often observed in communicative settings due to the plurality of sociolinguistic resources speakers draw upon to shape the particular style of talk which will best serve their communicative intent. This seems to be the case with Greek parliamentary discourse: although the parliament constitutes a highly institutionalised, formal setting, where logical and legal argumentation is expected to prevail, Greek parliamentarians employ oral humorous narratives to persuade the voting audience and create and maintain bonds with them. The wider cultural and political context plays a significant role in determining parliamentarians’ stylistic choices: orality and respective practices are highly valued in Greek culture, where story-telling in particular is often used for argumentative purposes.
2024. “When the immigrants faced the Statue of Liberty”: Critical Discourse Analysis of National Narratives in Greek Parliament. Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics 18:1 ► pp. 74 ff.
Ivanović, Ljubomir & Milica Vuković-Stamatović
2023. Use of Labels and Attributes for Degrading Opponents in Montenegro’s Political Discourse. In Political Debasement, ► pp. 149 ff.
Laineste, Liisi, Anastasiya Fiadotava, Eva Šipöczová & Guillem Castañar Rubio
2023. The cute and the fluffy. The European Journal of Humour Research 10:4 ► pp. 99 ff.
2019. Greek Parliamentary Discourse in the Years of the Economic Crisis. In Argumentation and Appraisal in Parliamentary Discourse [Advances in Linguistics and Communication Studies, ], ► pp. 1 ff.
2018. Prosodia y gestualidad y su relación con la expresión del humor en el debate parlamentario. Cuadernos de Investigación Filológica 44 ► pp. 45 ff.
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