1st Edition
Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction A Study of News Discourse
By Ron Scollon
Copyright 1998
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
330 Pages
by
Routledge
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Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction makes an explicit link between media studies and social interactionalist discursive research where previously the two fields of study have been treated as separate disciplines. This text presents an integrated theory illustrated by ample concrete examples, bringing together the latest research in these two fields. It offers a critique to the... Read more
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
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
Biography
The late Ron Scollon was a Professor in the Department of English, City University of Hong Kong.
