ABSTRACT
Mediated Discourse as Social Interaction makes an explicit link between media studies and social interactionalist discursive research where previously the two fields of study have been treated as separate disciplines.
This text presents an integrated theory illustrated by ample concrete examples, bringing together the latest research in these two fields. It offers a critique to the sender-receiver model implicit in media studies, and argues for an analysis of media discourse as social interaction, on the one hand among journalists and newsmakers as a community of practice, and among readers and viewers as a spectating community of practice on the other. The book also argues for a coherent and interdiscursive methodology for the ethnographic study of the role of the news media in the social construction of identity and is based on a considerable body of ethnographic and textual analysis of both print and television news media.
The theory of mediated discourse presented in this volume will be of great interest to advanced undergraduates and postgraduates studying media studies, sociology of language, discourse analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, ethnography of communication and applied linguistics. It will also be welcomed by scholars and professionals involved in research in these areas.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |24 pages
The Primacy of Social Interaction in Discourse
chapter |22 pages
Mediated action as social practice
part |132 pages
Sites of Engagement
chapter |50 pages
Maxims of Stance
part |10 pages
Interlude
part |90 pages
The Discursive Construction of the Person in the News Media
chapter |33 pages
Television journalists
chapter |24 pages
Newspaper journalists
chapter |31 pages
Newsmakers in newspaper and television
part |45 pages
Media Studies and Social Interaction