The appropriation of media in everyday life [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Ruth Ayass, Cornelia Gerhardt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792086203321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-59430-7; 9786613906755; 90-272-7337-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Collana: Pragmatics & beyond new series ; ; v. 224
• Altri autori (Persone): AyassRuth; GerhardtCornelia
• Disciplina: 302.23
• Soggetti: Mass media and language; Discourse analysis; Conversation analysis
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The Appropriation of Media in Everyday Life; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Introduction; 2. Everydayification and boundary dissolution; 3. Disconnection and interweaving; 4. The role of method; 5. Discourse and conversation analysis; References; Overview of the volume; Patterns of television reception; Communicative activities during the television reception; 1. Introduction; 2. General structures of recipient communication; 3. Changes in preference structures in television reception talk: Directness and disagreements; 3.1 Disagreements3.2 Backbiting; 3.3 Corrections; 4. The reception of different media genres: The case of television advertisement; 5. Conclusion; References; Appendix; Transcription Conventions; Notability; 1. Introduction; 2. Research on television reception; 3. Analogies of notability to tellability and related concepts; 4. The ATTAC-Corpus; 5. The workings of notability; 5.1 Notability licensing other-interruption; 5.2 Notability licensing self-interruption; 5.3 Simultaneousness between the viewers' talk and the media text; 6. Multimodality: More than words; 7. Notability and its connection to the exogenous event8. Conclusion; References; Appendix; Transcription conventions; Intertextual quotation; 1. Introduction; 2. Intertextuality, intertextual repetition, intertextual quotation; 3. Data description and method of analysis; 4. Intertextual quotation as evaluative stance; 5. Conversational strategies of intertextual quoting; 6. Pragmatic strategies of intertextual quoting; 7. Conclusion; References; Appendix; Transcription conventions; part ii. The reception of media genres; Watching out loud; 1. Introduction; 2. Television and everyday family life and talk3. Dialogicality and intertextuality in everyday discourse and media texts; 4. Who wants to be a millionaire?; 5. Data and methodology; 6. Watching out loud: Family members' engagement with the millionaire quiz show; 6.1 Television quiz show as 'our' show; 6.2 "Is that your final answer?": Appropriation of kernel phrases; 6.3 Joking engagement with the text and images of millionaire; 6.4 Millionaire as a resource in (re)constructing family relations and identities; 7. Conclusion; References; Appendix; Transcription conventions; The construction of audience community via answering machine1. Introduction; 2. Research agenda; 3. The radio broadcast; 4. The audience community; 4.1 From answering machine to cafés repaires; 4.2 The messages on the answering machine: Structural aspects; 4.3 From audience to community; 5. The messages on the answering machine: Between shouting session and story-telling; 5.1 Evaluations of the broadcast; 5.2 Assessments and argumentation; 5.3 Reports and other forms of witnessing; 5.4 Announcements; 6. Conclusion; References; Appendix; Transcription Conventions; 'I wanna become a real rock star'