What is the connection between what is said on TV and how it is said? Structured around four 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.
Provides a detailed analysis of the discourse of television, structured around four main features: storytelling, closeness, conflict and persuasion
Based on a wide range of nonfictional television formats, from news and documentaries to lifestyle shows and political debates
Fully illustrated with numerous examples, in the form of contextualised transcriptions, from programmes braodcast in the UK, the US and New Zealand
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
exceptionallangling media Medium television