1st Edition
The Discourse of Public Participation Media From talk show to Twitter
By Joanna Thornborrow
Copyright 2015
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Discourse of Public Participation Media takes a fresh look at what ‘ordinary’ people are doing on air – what they say, and how and where they get to say it.
Using techniques of discourse analysis to explore the construction of participant identities in a range of different public participation genres, Joanna Thornborrow argues that the role of the ‘ordinary’ person in these media... Read more
1. Introduction: Talking on Television and Radio 2. Identity and expertise 3. Performance and the Mediated ‘Self' 4. Discourses of Participation: Telling Stories 5. Discourses of Participation: Opinion and Argument 6. Discourses of Participation: Conflict and Judgement 7. Discourses of Participation: Advice and Makeover 8. Conclusions References
Biography
Joanna Thornborrow is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Western Brittany. She has published widely on forms of media talk and social interaction in edited books and major international journals, and is the author of Power Talk: Language and Interaction in Institutional Discourse (2002).
