Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action

✍ Scribed by Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 305
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This is the first book to examine the discourse of reality television. Chapters provide 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 USA.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
Reality television: a discourse-analytical perspective....Pages 9-23
Discourse approaches to the study of reality television....Pages 24-39
Front Matter....Pages 41-41
How ‘real’ is reality television in China? On the success of a Chinese dating programme....Pages 43-65
The (inter)play of nationality, religiosity and gender: textual mechanisms for the rich representation of Israeli identity on a reality race gamedoc....Pages 66-87
‘There’s no harm, is there, in letting your emotions out’: a multimodal perspective on language, emotion and identity in MasterChef Australia....Pages 88-114
The aesthetics of poverty and crime in Argentinean reality television....Pages 115-139
Heroic endeavours: flying high in New Zealand reality television....Pages 140-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
(Im)politeness and exploitative TV in Britain and North America: The X Factor and American Idol....Pages 169-198
Impoliteness in US/UK talent shows: a diachronic study of the evolution of a genre....Pages 199-217
‘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....Pages 218-244
‘You are killing your kids’: framing and impoliteness in a health makeover reality TV show....Pages 245-265
Moments of truth: telling it like it is on The Jeremy Kyle Show....Pages 266-287
Back Matter....Pages 288-296

✦ Subjects

Sociolinguistics; Discourse Analysis; Regional and Cultural Studies; Sociology, general; Social Sciences, general; Language and Literature

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