Blitvich, Pilar Garcés-Conejos
Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action
1. Introduction
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
Part I. The Reality of Discourse and Discourse Analysis: Theory, Approaches, Practices
2. Reality television: a discourse-analytical perspective
Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
3. Discourse approaches to the study of reality television
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
Part II. Reality Television and Identity
4. How ‘real’ is reality television in China? On the success of a Chinese dating programme
Chris Shei
5. The (inter)play of nationality, religiosity and gender: textual mechanisms for the rich representation of Israeli identity on a reality race gamedoc
Michal Hamo
6. ‘There’s no harm, is there, in letting your emotions out’: a multimodal perspective on language, emotion and identity in
Monika Bednarek
7. The aesthetics of poverty and crime in Argentinean reality television
María Laura Pardo
8. Heroic endeavours: flying high in New Zealand reality television
Philippa Smith
Part III. Reality Television and Aggression
9. (Im)politeness and exploitative TV in Britain and North America:
Jonathan Culpeper, Oliver Holmes
10. Impoliteness in US/UK talent shows: a diachronic study of the evolution of a genre
Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Patricia Bou-Franch, Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
11. ‘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
12. ‘You are killing your kids’: framing and impoliteness in a health makeover reality TV show
Cynthia Gordon
13. Moments of truth: telling it like it is on
Andrew Tolson
Keywords: Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology, general, Social Sciences, general, Language and Literature
- Editor
- Blitvich, Pilar Garcés-Conejos
- Lorenzo-Dus, Nuria
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2013
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 309 pages
- Category
- Languages
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137313461
- Printed ISBN
- 978-0-230-36872-9