Real Talk: Reality Television and Discourse Analysis in Action [electronic resource] /
Blitvich, Pilar Garces-Conejos.author.
Lorenzo-Dus, N.editor.
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction -- PART I: THE REALITY OF DISCOURSE AND DISCOURSE ANALYSIS: THEORY, APPROACHES, PRACTICES -- 1. The Discourse of Reality Television; Nuria Lorenzo-Dus and Pilar Garce;s-Conejos Blitvich -- 2. Discourse Analysis Approaches to the Study of Reality Television; Nuria Lorenzo-Dus and Pilar Garce;s-Conejos Blitvich -- PART II: REALITY TELEVISION AND IDENTITY -- 3. How 'Real' is Reality Television in China? On the Success of a Chinese Dating Programme; Chris Shei -- 4. The (inter)play of Nationality, Religiosity and Gender: Textual Mechanisms for the Rich Representation of Israeli Identity on a Reality Race Gamedoc; Michal Hamo -- 5. 'There's no harm, is there, in letting your emotions out': A Multimodal Perspective on Language, Emotion and Identity; Monika Bednarek -- 6. The Aesthetics of Poverty and Crime on Argentinean Reality Television; Laura Pardo -- 7. Heroic Endeavours: Flying High in New Zealand Reality Television; Philippa Smith -- PART III: REALITY TELEVISION AND AGGRESSION -- 8. (Im)politeness and Exploitative TV in Britain and North America: The X Factor and American Idol; Jonathan Culpeper and Oliver Holmes -- 9. Impoliteness in US/UK Talent Shows: A Diachronic Study of the Evolution of a Genre; Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Patricia Bou-Franch and Pilar Garce;s-Conejos Blitvich -- 10. '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; Jose; Luis Blas Arroyo -- 11. 'You are killing your kids': Understanding Impoliteness on a Family-health-makeover Reality TV Show; Cynthia Gordon -- 12. Moments of tTruth: Telling it Like it is on the Jeremy Kyle Show; Andrew Tolson -- Index.
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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