Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction

ISBN-13: 9780582327252 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 330 str.

Ronald Scollon; Ron Scollen

Opis

The author seeks to bridge the gap between media studies and sociolinguistics by presenting a new study on the role of language in news media, based on ethnographic and textual analyses of both print and television news media. In the LANGUAGE IN SOCIAL LIFE series.

Spis treści

Preface

Section I: The Primacy of Social Interation in Discourse
1. Mediated action as social practice

Section II: Sites of Engagement
2. Maxims of stance: Social practices in the interactive construction of business telephone calls
3. Acts of reading and watching: Observation as social interaction
4. News-stands, handbills, photographs and living rooms as stages for the construction of person

Interlude: Mediated Transactions

Section III: The Discursive Construction of the Person in the News Media
5. Television journalists
6. Newspaper journalists
7. Newspmakers in newspaper and television

Section IV: Media Studies and Social Interaction
8. Interdiscursivity and identity
9. A social interactional perspective on ethnographic studies of media

References

O autorze

The late Ron Scollon was a Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong.