Publications

Publication details [#44056]

Patrona, Marianna. 2006. Constructing the expert as a public speaker: Face considerations on floor-claiming in Greek television discussion programs. Journal of Pragmatics 38 (12) : 2124–2143.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conversational strategy | face maintenance | holding the floor | talk show | television

Language as a subject

Greek

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study relates the acts of floor-claiming and floor-maintenance of Greek television discussion program experts to Brown and Levinson's concept of face.