Media discourse : representation and interaction /

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Author / Creator:Talbot, Mary.
Imprint:Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.
Description:vi, 198 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Media topics
Media topics.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6623692
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ISBN:9780748623471 (hbk.)
0748623477 (hbk.)
0748623485 (pbk.)
9780748623488
0748630074
9780748630073
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]-192) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Transcription conventions
  • Part 1. Key issues in analysing media discourse
  • 1. Introduction: media and discourse
  • What is media discourse and why study it?
  • Media and the circuit of culture
  • Texts, discourse and discourses
  • Discourse as social practice in critical discourse analysis
  • About this book
  • 2. Reconfigurations
  • Time and place
  • Public and private
  • Informalisation and infotainment
  • Hybridisation
  • Parody and pastiche
  • Comedy central: Harlan McCraney
  • 3. Texts and positioning
  • Circuit of culture and reading positions
  • Text and positioning in critical discourse analysis
  • 'Guilt over games boys play': heteronormativity in a problem page
  • Men's magazines: a phallacious fraternity?
  • Texts and audiences
  • 4. Dialogism and voice
  • Intertextuality and the dialogic word
  • Footing and 'neutrality' in broadcast journalism
  • Randy fish boss branded a stinker: feminism on the Sun's page three?
  • Positioning, authority and erasure
  • Part 2. Representation and interaction
  • 5. Simulated interaction
  • Three types of interaction
  • 'Para-social interaction'
  • Sociability
  • Synthetic personality and synthetic personalisation
  • Simulated interaction on Radio 1xtra
  • 6. Interpersonal meaning in broadcast texts: representing social identities and relationships
  • Travel broadens the mind?
  • Expertise, authority and 'taste' in lifestyle TV
  • 'Transforming these school dinners is gonna be tough': Jamie's dinner ladies
  • Jeremy Paxman: "Britain's number one interrogator'
  • 7. Production communities and audience communities
  • Frontstage in production-community interaction
  • Backstage glimpses
  • 'Zoo' media
  • Television talk and talking with the television
  • 8. Interactivity
  • Backstage engagements
  • Frontstage: fifteen minutes of fame
  • Asymmetries
  • New technology
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index