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| Crespi Franco, (2005) Sociologia del Linguaggio (Sociology of Language) Bari: Editori Laterza |
Abstract A guide to the different interpretations that characterize the relationship between language and socia dynamics. Starting from a brief historyical analysis, the volume analyses the reciprocal relationship betwen the linguistic construction of reality and social representations, individual and collective identities, relation and interactions among actors. Language is presented as the possible fondation of rationality and etics. |
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| Jaworski, A. Fitzgerald, R. Morris, D. (2004) Radio leaks: Presenting and contesting leaks in radio news broadcasts. Journalism: Theory and Practice and Criticism. 5/2: 183-202 |
Jaworski, A. Fitzgerald, R. Constantinou, O.
(early 2005) Silence in theNews: The TV Reporting of the September
11 Attacks on New York and Washington D.C. Special issue of Multilingua.AbstractNews
of the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11th 2001
spread fast, mainly through dramatic images of the events broadcast
via a global television media, particularly 24-hour news channels
such as BBC News 24 and CNN. Following the initial report many news
channels moved to dedicated live coverage of the story. This move,
to what Liebes (1998) describes as a ‘disaster marathon’,
entails shifting from the routine, regular news agenda to one where
the event and aftermath becomes the main story and reference for
all other news. In this paper we draw upon recordings from the BBC
News 24 channel on September 11th 2001 during the immediate aftermath
of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon to argue that
the coverage of this event, and other similar types of event, may
be characterised as news permeated with strategic and emergent silences.
Identifying silence as both concrete and metaphorical we suggest
that there are a number of types of silence found in the coverage
and that these not only act to cover for lack of new news, or give
emphasis or gravitas, but also that the vacuum created by a lack
of news creates an emotional space in which collective shock, grieving
or wonder are managed through news presented as phatic communion.
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| Thornborrow, J. Fitzgerald, R Storying the Event. Special issue Communication Review. (Late 2004) |
| Abstract From a sociolinguistic and discourse analytic perspective, news stories have often been considered as operating within a similar structural framework to oral narratives (Labov, 1972), sharing formal elements with narratives produced in other contexts (although as Bell (1991) has demonstrated in relation to print news, these elements occur in temporal disorganisation). In this paper, in line with other recent treatments of news stories, we suggest that TV news does not conform to this kind of ‘narrative’ structure as such. Examining data taken from print and TV news through a Sacksian (1995) lens, we argue that it is possible to simplify the analysis of news structure by approaching the news as ‘stories’, where the story elements are organised around the notions of category, action and reason rather than as a series of narrative clauses involving orientation, complicating actions, evaluation and resolution (Bell, 1991; van Dijk, 1988). |
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Abstract This paper analyses the discursive construction
and contestation of ‘leaked’ stories in news broadcast
programmes.1 Drawing on a sample of BBC Radio 4 news programmes
recorded between May and June 2000, we analyse four items of news
presented as leaks about upcoming events. We suggest that these
examples highlight the leaking of information as a valuable newsworthy
commodity in that it not only allows news organisations to report
what is going to be news before it happens but also enables speculative
discourse as to the meaning of the event yet to happen. However,
in order for a story to be accepted as a leak it must be seen
to fulfil a number of criteria. With this in mind, we identify
four features accompanying the introduction of the news items
as leaks in the process of authentification: secrecy, authorship/ownership
and future orientation. The paper then discusses how these features
are used when contesting the status of a news story as a leak,
and how temporal play contributes to the downgrading the content
of the leak and hence its relevance, immediacy and newsworthiness. |
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Written
by some of the leading figures in the fields of conversation analysis,
discursive psychology and ethnomethodology, this book looks at the
challenging implications of new discourse-based approaches to the
topic of cognition. Up to now, cognition has primarily been studied
in experimental settings. This volume shows how cognition can be
reworked using analyses of engaging examples of real life interaction
such as conversations between friends, relationship counselling
sessions, and legal hearings. It includes an extended introduction
that overviews the history and context of cognitive research and
its basic assumptions to provide a frame for understanding the specific
examples discussed, as well as surveying cutting edge debates about
discourse and cognition. This comprehensive and accessible book
opens up important new ways of understanding the relation between
language and cognition.Contents:1. Talking cognition: mapping and
making the terrain Jonathan Potter and Hedwig te Molder; Part I.
The Interface between Cognition and Action: 2. Validating 'observations'
in discourse studies: a methodological reason for attention to cognition
Robert Sanders;3. Language without mind Jeff Coulter; 4. Using participants'
video stimulated comments to complement analyses of interactional
practices Anita Pomerantz; 5. From paradigm to prototype and back
again: interactive aspects of 'cognitive processing' in standardized
survey interviews Nora Cate Schaeffer and Douglas Maynard; 6. A
cognitive agnostic in conversation analysis: when do strategies
affect spoken interaction? Robert Hopper. Part II. Cognition in
Action: 7. Is confusion a state of mind? Paul Drew; 8. Cognition
in discourse John Heritage; 9. From process to practice: language,
interaction and 'flashbulb'memories Robin Wooffitt; 10. 'My memory
has been shredded': a non-cognitivist of 'mental' phenomena Michael
Lynch and David Bogen; 11.Discursive psychology, mental states and
descriptions Derek Edwards and Jonathan Potter.
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Abstract News of the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11th 2001 spread fast, mainly through dramatic images of the events broadcast via a global television media, particularly 24-hour news channels such as BBC News 24 and CNN. Following the initial report many news channels moved to dedicated live coverage of the story. This move, to what Liebes (1998) describes as a ‘disaster marathon’, entails shifting from the routine, regular news agenda to one where the event and aftermath becomes the main story and reference for all other news. In this paper we draw upon recordings from the BBC News 24 channel on September 11th 2001 during the immediate aftermath of the attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon to argue that the coverage of this event, and other similar types of event, may be characterised as news permeated with strategic and emergent silences. Identifying silence as both concrete and metaphorical we suggest that there are a number of types of silence found in the coverage and that these not only act to cover for lack of new news, or give emphasis or gravitas, but also that the vacuum created by a lack of news creates an emotional space in which collective shock, grieving or wonder are managed through news presented as phatic communion. |
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