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Publication details [#54962]

Stamou, Anastasia G. 2011. Speech style and the construction of social division: Evidence from Greek television. Language & Communication 31 (4) : 329–344.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

Analyzing how social division is portrayed in today’s late modern Greek television, and what role speech style plays in this process, this study argues that, as the traditional discourse of class society appears to be challenged by some peripheral characters of the examined series, Greek television eventually favors the current classlessness discourse.