Overview

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.

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Author:   Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.506kg
ISBN:  

9781403934284

ISBN 10:   1403934282
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   25 November 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Abbreviations List of Extracts, Tables and Figures Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: STORYTELLING Storytelling...or the Entertaining Construction of Reality Once Upon a Time in a Documentary Once Upon a Time in a Talk Show PART II: CLOSENESS Closeness...or How Television Gets Up Close and Personal Live News and Closeness 'Close' Talk and Moral Worthiness PART III: CONFLICT Conflict...or the Rise of Spectacular Incivility Emotional Conflict Talk and Reality Television Conflict Talk and Politics PART IV: PERSUASION Persuasion...or the Art of Occultatio Persuasion, Politics and Television Persuasion and Lifestyle Television Interacting in a Broadcast Medium: Some Final Words Glossary Guide to Further Reading Bibliography Index.

Reviews

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

Author Information

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.

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