Media Talk: Spoken Discourse on TV and Radio
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press | ISBN: 0748618260 | edition 2006 | PDF | 200 pages | 1,4 mb
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press | ISBN: 0748618260 | edition 2006 | PDF | 200 pages | 1,4 mb
Over the past twenty years, a focus on broadcast talk has emerged as an innovative approach to studying the media. Adapting perspectives derived from Discourse and Conversation Analysis, this approach investigates distinctive forms of mediated speech on TV and radio. It provides original insights into the ways in which broadcasting stages 'discourse events' (interviews, debates, commentaries and verbal performances) which are designed to attract and involve overhearing audiences.