English Media Texts, Past and Present
English Media Texts, Past and Present

Author: Friedrich Ungerer

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9789027250995

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This book is among the first to combine a historical view of media texts with a critical look at their textual diversity today. The thirteen chapters cover corpora of early news-papers and pamphlets, present-day news stories and commentaries, TV talk shows and commercials as well as internet presentations. The studies focus on the wide range of text types in 18th century newspapers and the interpersonal strategies of pamphlets; they pursue the development of the persuasive potential of headlines and advertisements right down to the sophisticated postmodernist and multilingual examples of today. Other topics are the definition and structure of news stories and commentaries, the interpersonal and multi-modal aspects of talkshows, and more radically, the questioning of the journalist's role in the age of the internet. Generally the stress is on the attention-getting side of media texts rather than on the manipulative qualities investigated by critical discourse analysis.

TV Content Analysis
TV Content Analysis

Author: Yiannis Kompatsiaris

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2012-03-19

Total Pages: 674

ISBN-13: 1439855625

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The rapid advancement of digital multimedia technologies has not only revolutionized the production and distribution of audiovisual content, but also created the need to efficiently analyze TV programs to enable applications for content managers and consumers. Leaving no stone unturned, TV Content Analysis: Techniques and Applications provides a de

Talking Politics in Broadcast Media
Talking Politics in Broadcast Media

Author: Mats Ekström

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 9027206333

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This book is a collection of studies on political interaction in a variety of broadcast, namely news and current affairs programs, political interviews, audience participation programs and radio phone-ins. Following a growing scholarly interest in political discourses, dialogic forms of news production and media talk in general, a number of internationally acclaimed scholars investigate the discursive and interactional practices that give rise to the arena of public politics in contemporary society. Chapters span an array of cultural contexts, as diverse as Sweden, Greece, Belgium (Flanders), the U.K., Spain, Israel, the U.S.A., Australia and China. Authors combine an interest in discourse analysis and conversation analysis with different disciplinary orientations, such as linguistics, media and cultural studies, sociology, political science, and social psychology. The book uncovers current trends in media and political discourse, and will be of interest to both students and scholars of media discourse and politics.

Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures
Questioning and Answering Practices across Contexts and Cultures

Author: Cornelia Ilie

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2021-07-26

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9027259712

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This book showcases innovative research about the multi-functional and dynamic interrelatedness of questioning and answering practices in institution- and culture-specific interactions ranging from under-explored to extensively researched ones: South-Korean talk shows, Japanese interviews, Chinese news interviews, police-civilian interactions in the USA, Italian interviews and courtroom examinations, Japanese parliamentary debates and Prime Minister’s Questions in the UK Parliament. Challenging the view that questions are asked with the purpose of seeking information and eliciting answers, these studies open up new research avenues through insightful investigations and critical scrutiny that problematize the question-answer paradigm, through which meanings are conveyed, negotiated and/or contested, and through which relationships are established, maintained and/or challenged. Significant findings show that questioning and answering strategies are shaped by the specific norms and constraints of particular communities of practice, while at the same time they are shaping the very same communities of practice. This book will appeal to interdisciplinary scholars and practitioners across the linguistic, media, political, legal and social sciences.

Windows on the World: Media Discourse in English
Windows on the World: Media Discourse in English

Author: Antonia Sánchez Macarro

Publisher: Universitat de València

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9788437054469

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Una contribució elaborada des d’observatoris diferents sobre la significació i el paper dels discursos mediàtics difosos en anglès mitjançant els missatges públics. Els autors incideixen sobre les innombrables varietats del llenguatge d’acord amb els mitjans utilitzats per expandir-los –dels més tradicionals als més innovadors– i amb els receptors als quals van destinats.

Cultural Awareness and Language Awareness Based on Dialogic Interaction with Texts in Foreign Language Learning
Cultural Awareness and Language Awareness Based on Dialogic Interaction with Texts in Foreign Language Learning

Author: Anne-Brit Fenner

Publisher: Council of Europe

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 9789287147134

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This study contains a number of articles which consider concepts in foreign language teaching and learning relating to: dialogue, communication, intercultural awareness, language awareness, and the roles of teacher and learner. It attempts to widen the scope of the discussion about language and culture awareness by including aspects of linguistic, literary, philosophical, and teaching theories from the authors' own cultures, as well as from other traditions.