" Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. It provides state-of-the-art contextualization chapters on relevant concepts and methods, followed by rigorous case studiesof the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic / cultural contexts, including dating shows in China and Spain, docudramas in Argentina and New Zealand, and talent shows in the UK and the USA. These are structured in relation to two key themes: identity and aggression. This book will be essential reading for upper-level undergraduates and graduates in linguistics, discourse analysis and media studies, as well as for practitioners in these fields"--
Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. It provides state-of-the-art contextualization chapters on relevant concepts and methods, followed by rigorous case studies of the discourse practices that characterise a wide range of generic and linguistic / cultural contexts, including dating shows in China and Spain, docudramas in Argentina and New Zealand, and talent shows in the UK and the USA. These are structured in relation to two key themes: identity and aggression.
This book will be essential reading for upper-level undergraduates and graduates in linguistics, discourse analysis and media studies, as well as for practitioners in these fields.
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'Overall, the collection convincingly offers insights into theories, methodologies and topics of relevance to the study of language use in reality TV shows from a discourse analytic perspective. This carefully edited work is highly recommended for scholars working in media linguistics and discourse analysis, especially those who work on identity construction, (im)politeness and genre.' - Journal of Pragmatics
Introduction PART I: THE REALITY OF DISCOURSE AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS:
THEORY, APPROACHES, PRACTICES
1. The Discourse of Reality Television; Nuria
Lorenzo-Dus and Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
2. Discourse Analysis
Approaches to the Study of Reality Television; Nuria Lorenzo-Dus and Pilar
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich PART II: REALITY TELEVISION AND IDENTITY
3. How
'Real' is Reality Television in China? On the Success of a Chinese Dating
Programme; Chris Shei
4. The (inter)play of Nationality, Religiosity and
Gender: Textual Mechanisms for the Rich Representation of Israeli Identity on
a Reality Race Gamedoc; Michal Hamo
5. 'There's no harm, is there, in letting
your emotions out': A Multimodal Perspective on Language, Emotion and
Identity; Monika Bednarek
6. The Aesthetics of Poverty and Crime on
Argentinean Reality Television; Laura Pardo
7. Heroic Endeavours: Flying High
in New Zealand Reality Television; Philippa Smith PART III: REALITY
TELEVISION AND AGGRESSION
8. (Im)politeness and Exploitative TV in Britain
and North America: The X Factor and American Idol ; Jonathan Culpeper and
Oliver Holmes
9. Impoliteness in US/UK Talent Shows: A Diachronic Study of
the Evolution of a Genre; Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Patricia Bou-Franch and Pilar
Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
10. 'No eres inteligente ni para tener amigos Pues
anda que tú' [ 'You are not even clever enough to have any friends Look who's
talking!']: A Quantitative Analysis of the Production and Reception of
Impoliteness in Present-day Spanish Reality Television; José Luis Blas Arroyo
11. 'You are killing your kids': Understanding Impoliteness on a
Family-health-makeover Reality TV Show; Cynthia Gordon
12. Moments of tTruth:
Telling it Like it is on the Jeremy Kyle Show; Andrew Tolson Index
Monika Bednarek, University of Sydney, Australia José Luis Blas-Arroyo, Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain Patricia Bou-Franch, University of Valencia, Spain Jonathan Culpeper, Lancaster University, UK Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Cynthia Gordon, Syracuse University, USA Oliver Holmes, previously of Lancaster University, UK Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Swansea University, UK María Laura Pardo, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Philippa K. Smith, AUT University in Auckland, New Zealand Andrew Tolson, De Montfort University, UK
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