Television Discourse

ISBN-13: 9781403934284 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 288 str.

Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

Opis

What is the connection between what is said on TV and how it is said? Structured around four key features of the current broadcast landscape (storytelling, closeness, conflict and persuasion), Television Discourse examines the specific forms and structures of talk across media genres as varied as exploitative shows and political interviews.

Spis treści

Abbreviations.- List of Extracts, Tables and Figures.- Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- PART I: STORYTELLING Storytelling...or the Entertaining Construction of Reality.- Once Upon a Time in a Documentary.- Once Upon a Time in a Talk Show.- PART II: CLOSENESS Closeness...or How Television Gets Up Close and Personal.- Live News and Closeness.- 'Close' Talk and Moral Worthiness.- PART III: CONFLICT Conflict...or the Rise of Spectacular Incivility.- Emotional Conflict Talk and Reality Television.- Conflict Talk and Politics.- PART IV: PERSUASION Persuasion...or the Art of Occultatio.- Persuasion, Politics and Television.- Persuasion and Lifestyle Television.- Interacting in a Broadcast Medium: Some Final Words.- Glossary.- Guide to Further Reading.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

NURIA LORENZO-DUS is Reader in the in the Department of English Language and Literature at Swansea University, UK. She has published widely on media discourse and cross-cultural pragmatics in international journals, such as Media, Culture& Society and Journal of Pragmatics, and is currently involved in an AHRC funded project on mediated memory and commemoration.