Political Discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe
Edited by Martina Berrocal and Aleksandra Salamurović
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 84] 2019. vii, 268 pp.
Martina Berrocal
List of John Benjamins publications for which Martina Berrocal plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics
2024 Chapter 4. Maintaining political authority and credibility during the Covid-19 crisis: The case of Czech government press conferences Manufacturing Dissent: Manipulation and counter-manipulation in times of crisis, Ilie, Cornelia (ed.), pp. 119–156 | Chapter
This article explores how communicative influence is instantiated through the analysis of situational settings, pragmatic means, and discursive strategies at the press conferences held by the Czech government during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis to maintain political authority and credibility.… read more
2023 Political speeches as a tool of Covid19 crisis management? Discursive and linguistic localization of the crisis in Central Europe and Western Balkans Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management, Thielemann, Nadine and Daniel Weiss (eds.), pp. 44–74 | Chapter
This study focuses on crisis communication in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, and North Macedonia during the first, second, and third pandemic waves and takes a comparative pragmatics approach. By focusing on pragmatic features, such as speech acts and discursive/linguistic aspects of… read more
2019 Chapter 6. Delegitimization strategies in Czech parliamentary discourse Political Discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe, Berrocal, Martina and Aleksandra Salamurović (eds.), pp. 119–146 | Chapter
Parliamentary debates are characterized by constant conflict of opposing discourses in the struggle for positions, resources and political power. This rhetorical conflict, which is often more performed than real, aims, among others, to undermine the image of the political rivals and to question… read more
2019 Constructing threat through quotes and historical analogies in the Czech and the US “Ukraine Discourse” Journal of Language and Politics 18:6, pp. 870–892 | Article
Conflicts and their discursive representations involve, apart from the spacio-temporal dimension, also the socio-ideological and axiological positions. These prompt the desired emotional response from the audience in a form of authorization for the intended action. All these dimensions are… read more
2019 Chapter 1. Introduction Political Discourse in Central, Eastern and Balkan Europe, Berrocal, Martina and Aleksandra Salamurović (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Introduction
2017 ‘Victim playing’ as a form of verbal aggression in the Czech parliament Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict 5:1, pp. 81–107 | Article
As the core of political discourse is the struggle for power and scarce resources, conflict seems to be an essential component of political action and interaction. In addition, conflicts in parliament are manifested in many different ways. They range from disputes during the plenary sessions to… read more