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Chapter 4. ‘We – will – go – bank – rupt’

Interactionally constructing the Greek debt crisis on the news
  • Marianna Patrona
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Crisis and the Media
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Abstract

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 minister of Greece, George A. Papandreou, announced his decision to hold a national referendum on the agreed-upon second eurozone aid package, infuriating both his European counterparts and his peers at home, with the threat of the country’s default imminent. The crisis ended on 11 November 2011, when Lucas Papademos was sworn in as the new interim prime-minister of Greece, and head of a new, unity government.

Through detailed discourse analysis of talk-in-interaction, the paper critically compares the rhetorical means through which crisis is constructed in journalists’ contributions in the private MEGA channel news vs. the public NET news. More specifically, the analysis compares the framing of the referendum announcement and the ensuing political developments, as instantiated through vocabulary and register choices, rhetorical figures and conversational practices in bulletin openings and conversational sequences in the two channels. Finally, the analysis explores possible shifts in the role of broadcast media in times of crisis, again, as enacted in and through news discourse and interaction.

Abstract

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 minister of Greece, George A. Papandreou, announced his decision to hold a national referendum on the agreed-upon second eurozone aid package, infuriating both his European counterparts and his peers at home, with the threat of the country’s default imminent. The crisis ended on 11 November 2011, when Lucas Papademos was sworn in as the new interim prime-minister of Greece, and head of a new, unity government.

Through detailed discourse analysis of talk-in-interaction, the paper critically compares the rhetorical means through which crisis is constructed in journalists’ contributions in the private MEGA channel news vs. the public NET news. More specifically, the analysis compares the framing of the referendum announcement and the ensuing political developments, as instantiated through vocabulary and register choices, rhetorical figures and conversational practices in bulletin openings and conversational sequences in the two channels. Finally, the analysis explores possible shifts in the role of broadcast media in times of crisis, again, as enacted in and through news discourse and interaction.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors vii
  4. Crisis or the media? 1
  5. Part I. Crisis? What crisis? Theoretical perspectives
  6. Chapter 1. Rehearsing the crisis 17
  7. Chapter 2. Reconceptualizing crisis 33
  8. Part II. Constructions of crisis and responsibility in the print and broadcast media
  9. Chapter 3. Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts 59
  10. Chapter 4. ‘We – will – go – bank – rupt’ 85
  11. Chapter 5. “All good people have debts” 107
  12. Chapter 6. The image of the empty hands 127
  13. Chapter 7. The visual construction of political crises 151
  14. Chapter 8. Impending crisis in Scotland 177
  15. Part III. Crisis constructions in the on-line and social media
  16. Chapter 9. Civic voice in multimodal news narratives 205
  17. Chapter 10. Gender in “crisis”, everyday sexism and the Twittersphere 231
  18. Epilogue 261
  19. Index 267
https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.76.05pat

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Contributors vii
  4. Crisis or the media? 1
  5. Part I. Crisis? What crisis? Theoretical perspectives
  6. Chapter 1. Rehearsing the crisis 17
  7. Chapter 2. Reconceptualizing crisis 33
  8. Part II. Constructions of crisis and responsibility in the print and broadcast media
  9. Chapter 3. Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts 59
  10. Chapter 4. ‘We – will – go – bank – rupt’ 85
  11. Chapter 5. “All good people have debts” 107
  12. Chapter 6. The image of the empty hands 127
  13. Chapter 7. The visual construction of political crises 151
  14. Chapter 8. Impending crisis in Scotland 177
  15. Part III. Crisis constructions in the on-line and social media
  16. Chapter 9. Civic voice in multimodal news narratives 205
  17. Chapter 10. Gender in “crisis”, everyday sexism and the Twittersphere 231
  18. Epilogue 261
  19. Index 267
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