Media Talk : : Spoken Discourse on TV and Radio / / Andrew Tolson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Tolson, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Part One: Approaches to Media Talk --; 1 Introducing Media Talk --; 2 Analysing Media Talk --; Part Two: Case Studies --; 3 News Talk --; 4 Political Talk --; 5 Sports Talk --; 6 Youth Talk --; 7 Ordinary Talk --; 8 Celebrity Talk --; 9 Talking to Big Brother --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780748626311; 9783110780468
• DOI: 10.1515/9780748626311
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Andrew Tolson.

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748618262);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.Media Talk is the first book to provide a comprehensive review of this important work, in terms which are accessible to students and non-specialist readers. It is however, much more than a textbook, being augmented throughout by the author's own research into contemporary, sometimes controversial developments. An introduction to this area of media studies, and its distinctive methodologies, is followed by chapters on news talk, political talk, sports talk, radio DJ talk, talk shows, celebrity interviews and 'reality TV'. The book is illustrated with examples from British and American radio and television.Particular themes include:the so-called 'dumbing down' of news and current affairs in increasingly 'conversational' formsthe design of forms of talk to appeal to particular target audiencesthe development of new forms of 'reality' programming featuring unscripted verbal performances by 'ordinary' people"