Television Discourse

Analysing Language in the Media

AvNuria Lorenzo-Dus

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Beskrivning

What is the connection between what is said on TV and how it is said? Structured around 4 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 reality shows and political interviews.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-11-25
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:508 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781403934284

Utforska kategorier

Språkvetenskap och lingvistik inom Språk och ordböcker
Television inom Kultur
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

In a clear and engaging style, this book offers the reader a sophisticated yet accessible insight into the nitty-gritty of televisual discourse. Moving seamlessly across an astounding range of programme formats, speech genres, and analytic frameworks, Lorenzo-Dus explains how television shapes our perceptions, worldviews and lifestyles. Read this book and watch television with your eyes and ears open. Scary, gripping and thought-provoking. - Professor Adam Jaworski, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University '...useful and interesting...' - Journal of Sociolinguistics

Innehållsförteckning

AbbreviationsList of Extracts, Tables and FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART I: STORYTELLING Storytelling...or the Entertaining Construction of RealityOnce Upon a Time in a DocumentaryOnce Upon a Time in a Talk ShowPART II: CLOSENESS Closeness...or How Television Gets Up Close and PersonalLive News and Closeness'Close' Talk and Moral WorthinessPART III: CONFLICT Conflict...or the Rise of Spectacular IncivilityEmotional Conflict Talk and Reality TelevisionConflict Talk and PoliticsPART IV: PERSUASION Persuasion...or the Art of OccultatioPersuasion, Politics and TelevisionPersuasion and Lifestyle TelevisionInteracting in a Broadcast Medium: Some Final WordsGlossaryGuide to Further ReadingBibliographyIndex.