Research Catalog

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Description

1. xiv, 315 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

1. This text bridges the gap in research between media studies and sociolinguistics, and presents a new study on the role of language in the news media.

Series statement

1. Language in social life series

Uniform title

1. Language in social life series

Subject

1. Mass media
2. Social interaction
3. Journalism
4. Mass media > Audiences
5. Discourse analysis
6. Journalism
7. mass media
8. journalism
9. pragmatics
10. Soziolinguistik
11. Soziale Norm
12. Nachrichtensendung
13. Massacommunicatie
14. Sociale interactie
15. Journalistiek

Contents

1. pt. I. The Primacy of Social Interaction in Discourse. 1. Mediated action as social practice -- pt. II. Sites of Engagement. 2. Maxims of Stance: social practices in the interactive construction of business telephone calls. 3. Acts of reading and watching: observation as social interaction. 4. News-stands, handbills, photographs and living rooms as stages for the construction of person. Interlude: Mediated Transactions -- pt. III. The Discursive Construction of the Person in the News Media. 5. Television journalists. 6. Newspaper journalists. 7. Newsmakers in newspaper and television -- pt. IV. Media Studies and Social Interaction. 8. Interdiscursivity and identity. 9. A social-interactional perspective on ethnographic studies of media.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-303) and index.