Disagreement in Greek news interviews

This paper applies the conversation analytic approach to a particular type of in­stitutional interaction, the television news interview. It examines fragments from panel interviews which involve two or more interviewees holding opposing posi­tions about certain issues. The aim of the paper is to show the ways in which the sequential analysis proposed by conversation analysts, in combination with the notions of face and politeness, can account for the organization of disagreement between the interviewees as well as to examine the extent to which disagreement in Greek news interviews is both contextually and culturally favoured