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Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action

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  • © 2013

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Editors:
  1. Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

    1. Department of English Language and Linguistics, Swansea University, UK

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  2. Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich

    1. University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
      Pages 1-6

  3. The Reality of Discourse and Discourse Analysis: Theory, Approaches, Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
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    2. Reality television: a discourse-analytical perspective

      • Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich, Nuria Lorenzo-Dus
      Pages 9-23

    3. Discourse approaches to the study of reality television

      • Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich
      Pages 24-39

  5. Reality Television and Aggression

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. (Im)politeness and exploitative TV in Britain and North America: The X Factor and American Idol

      • Jonathan Culpeper, Oliver Holmes
      Pages 169-198

    3. 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
      Pages 199-217

    4. ‘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
      Pages 218-244

    5. ‘You are killing your kids’: framing and impoliteness in a health makeover reality TV show

      • Cynthia Gordon
      Pages 245-265

    6. Moments of truth: telling it like it is on The Jeremy Kyle Show

      • Andrew Tolson
      Pages 266-287

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 288-296
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About this book

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.

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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

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of English Language and Linguistics, Swansea University, UK

    Nuria Lorenzo-Dus

  • University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA

    Pilar Garcés-Conejos Blitvich

About the editors

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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