1st Edition

Investigating Media Discourse

By ANNE O'KEEFFE Copyright 2006
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Investigating Media Discourse explores spoken interactions in the media, drawing on contemporary sources from the English speaking world including chat shows, radio phone-ins and political interviews with leaders such as Tony Blair and George W.Bush. The main theoretical framework used in this work is influenced by Goffman, where each media encounter is viewed as a three-way participation... Read more
1 Introduction 2 A framework for analysing media discourse 3 Review of methodologies for analysing media discourse 4 Managing the discourse 5 Creating and sustaining pseudo- relationships 7 Conclusion

Biography

Anne O’Keeffe is Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the Department of English Language and Literature, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland.