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Focuses on how people appropriate media in their daily lives. This book contributes to the burgeoning field of interactional linguistic media studies. It analyses the minutiae of the moment when people actively appropriate media for their own purposes in different fashions.

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Author:   Ruth Ayaß (University of Klagenfurt) ,  Cornelia Gerhardt (Saarland University)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   224
Weight:   0.715kg
ISBN:  

9789027256294

ISBN 10:   9027256292
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   11 September 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgments; 2. Introduction: Media appropriation and everyday life (by Ayass, Ruth); 3. Overview of the volume (by Gerhardt, Cornelia); 4. Part I. Patterns of television reception; 5. Communicative activities during the television reception: General and genre specific structures of recipients' talk (by Ayass, Ruth); 6. Notability: The construction of current events in talk-in-interaction (by Gerhardt, Cornelia); 7. Intertextual quotation: References to media in family interaction (by Beers Fagersten, Kristy); 8. Part II. The reception of media genres; 9. Watching out loud: A television quiz show as a resource in family interaction (by Tovares, Alla V.); 10. The construction of audience community via answering machine: The case of the French radio broadcast La-bas, si j'y suis (by Baldauf-Quilliatre, Heike); 11. 'I wanna become a real rock star': Para-social interactions of German adolescent girls with television talent shows (by Spreckels, Janet); 12. Part III. Mediated worlds; 13. Organising participation in video gaming activities (by Piirainen-Marsh, Arja); 14. Coordinating action and talk-in-interaction in and out of video games (by Mondada, Lorenza); 15. Appropriating new media: The implementation of technical landmarks in emergency settings (by Habscheid, Stephan); 16. Index

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